51.4% ▼ -7.4%
Higher than 96% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 55.5%
- 2016: 56.8%
- 2021: 51.4%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Palmerston · Council (LGA)
Migration & Movement in Palmerston
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Over half of all residents in Palmerston have moved house in the last five years, making it one of the most mobile areas in the region. This high churn means a constant flow of new faces joining the community. While internal movement is very high, the proportion of recent overseas arrivals has fallen since 2011.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
More than half of the population (51.4%) moved here in the last five years. This is far above the national figure of 40.7% and well above the Northern Territory's 42.0%, though the rate has fallen slightly since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 14.3% of the population, which is about the same as the Australian average. This is well below the Northern Territory's 21.0% and is a significant drop from the 22.6% recorded in 2011.
14.3% ▼ -36.7%
Higher than 61% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 22.6%
- 2016: 23.6%
- 2021: 14.3%
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 Palmerston [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA72800/palmerston/topic/mobility-location