27.1% ▼ -6.0%
Lower than 83% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 28.8%
- 2016: 25.9%
- 2021: 27.1%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Northern Areas · Council (LGA)
Migration & Movement in Northern Areas
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Fewer people have moved into or arrived in Northern Areas since 2011. This is a stable region where only 27.1% of residents changed homes in the last five years, a figure that is far below the national average.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Only 27.1% of people moved home in the last five years, which is much lower than most areas. This is well below the South Australian figure of 36.9% and has fallen slightly since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 5.7% of the population, which is well below the 14.5% national figure. This proportion has fallen by 2.2 percentage points since 2011.
5.7% ▼ -27.5%
Lower than 80% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 7.9%
- 2016: 8.6%
- 2021: 5.7%
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 Northern Areas [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA45120/northern-areas/topic/mobility-location