34.0% ▼ -11.4%
Lower than 53% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 38.4%
- 2016: 31.0%
- 2021: 34.0%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Kangaroo Island · Council (LGA)
Migration & Movement in Kangaroo Island
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Far fewer people have moved to Kangaroo Island since 2011, with both local and overseas arrivals falling. Only 34% of residents moved into the area in the last five years, a figure well below the national average.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 34% of people moved here in the last five years, which is a little below the South Australian figure and well below the national rate. This is 4.4 percentage points lower than it was in 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 6.9% of the population, which is much lower than the figures for South Australia and Australia. This proportion has fallen by 6.4 percentage points since 2011.
6.9% ▼ -48.1%
Lower than 72% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 13.3%
- 2016: 8.7%
- 2021: 6.9%
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 Kangaroo Island [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA42750/kangaroo-island/topic/mobility-location