30.4% ▼ -18.8%
Lower than 72% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 37.5%
- 2016: 34.6%
- 2021: 30.4%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Litchfield · Council (LGA)
Migration & Movement in Litchfield
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Far fewer people have moved into Litchfield recently compared to the rest of the region. Just 30.4% of residents arrived in the last five years, which is well below the national and state figures. This suggests a very stable population where most people have lived for a long time.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 30.4% of people moved here in the last five years, which is far below the Northern Territory's 42.0%. This figure has fallen by 7.0 percentage points since 2011, meaning the area is less mobile than most other places.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 6.6% of the population, a figure well below the Australian average of 14.5%. This is also far below the Northern Territory rate of 21.0% and has dipped slightly since 2011.
6.6% ▼ -15.8%
Lower than 74% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 7.8%
- 2016: 10.1%
- 2021: 6.6%
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 Litchfield [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA72300/litchfield/topic/mobility-location