13.3% ▼ -27.7%
Lower than 99% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 18.4%
- 2016: 13.2%
- 2021: 13.3%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Tiwi Islands · Council (LGA)
Migration & Movement in Tiwi Islands
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Far fewer people have moved to the Tiwi Islands recently compared to most other areas. Only 13.3% of residents arrived in the last five years, which is far below the national figure.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Movement into the area is among the lowest for similar regions, with only 13.3% of people moving here in the last five years. This is far below the 42% seen across the Northern Territory and has fallen since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 17% of the population, which is a little above the Australian figure. However, this is well below the Northern Territory rate and has fallen sharply since 2016.
17.0% —
Higher than 72% of council (lga) areas.
- 2016: 33.8%
- 2021: 17.0%
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 Tiwi Islands [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA74050/tiwi-islands/topic/mobility-location