35.9% ▼ -12.7%
Higher than 56% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 41.1%
- 2016: 38.8%
- 2021: 35.9%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Carpentaria · Council (LGA)
Migration & Movement in Carpentaria
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
About the same as similar areas, Carpentaria sees a moderate level of people moving in and out. While 35.9% of residents changed homes recently, this is well below the national figure. The region has become less mobile over the last decade.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 35.9% of people moved home in the last five years, which is well below the 40.7% seen across Australia. This figure has fallen by 5.2 percentage points since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 11.2% of the population, a figure that is well below the national average. This has dropped sharply since 2011, falling by 14 percentage points.
11.2% ▼ -56.1%
Lower than 52% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 25.5%
- 2016: 18.9%
- 2021: 11.2%
Share of overseas-born residents who arrived in Australia in the five years before the census.
Sources
- Census of Population and Housing — Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021 (CC BY 4.0).
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Migration & Movement in Carpentaria [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA32250/carpentaria/topic/mobility-location