48.3% ▼ -0.9%
Higher than 92% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 48.7%
- 2016: 46.3%
- 2021: 48.3%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Alice Springs · Council (LGA)
Migration & Movement in Alice Springs
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
A far higher share of people have moved recently into Alice Springs than is typical for the rest of Australia. Nearly half of all residents arrived within the last five years, making it one of the most mobile areas in the country.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 48.3% of residents moved home in the last five years, which is well above the national figure of 40.7%. This high level of movement has barely changed since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 25.6% of the population, a figure far above the Australian average of 14.5%. However, this proportion has fallen by 9.1 percentage points since 2011.
25.6% ▼ -26.2%
Higher than 90% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 34.7%
- 2016: 30.7%
- 2021: 25.6%
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 Alice Springs [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA70200/alice-springs/topic/mobility-location