18.8% ▲ +9.7%
Lower than 97% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 17.1%
- 2016: 16.2%
- 2021: 18.8%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Roper Gulf · Council (LGA)
Migration & Movement in Roper Gulf
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Nearly 30% of people in Roper Gulf arrived from overseas recently, one of the highest rates for similar areas. This stands in stark contrast to internal movement, as very few people have moved into the region from elsewhere in Australia lately.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Only 18.8% of residents moved here in the last five years, which is far below the national figure of 40.7%. This is among the lowest rates of movement seen in similar areas.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 29.6% of the population, which is well above the Northern Territory average of 21.0%. This figure has fallen slightly since 2011, when it was 32.8%.
29.6% ▼ -9.7%
Higher than 94% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 32.8%
- 2016: 27.2%
- 2021: 29.6%
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 Roper Gulf [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA73600/roper-gulf/topic/mobility-location