30.2% ▲ +11.9%
Lower than 72% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 27.0%
- 2016: 28.1%
- 2021: 30.2%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Barkly · Council (LGA)
Migration & Movement in Barkly
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
More people are arriving from overseas than in most other parts of the country, making Barkly a place of significant international movement. While 25.7% of the population arrived from abroad recently, far fewer people have moved between Australian homes here compared to the rest of the nation.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Fewer people move house here than in most other areas. Only 30.2% of residents moved in the last five years, which is far below the national figure of 40.7%, although this rate has risen slightly since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
International arrivals are very common in Barkly, with 25.7% of people arriving from overseas recently. This is far above the Australian figure of 14.5% and well above the Northern Territory average.
25.7% ▲ +13.4%
Higher than 90% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 22.6%
- 2016: 27.3%
- 2021: 25.7%
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 Barkly [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA70420/barkly/topic/mobility-location