31.5% ▼ -1.6%
Lower than 75% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 32.0%
- 2016: 30.7%
- 2021: 31.5%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Outer Regional Australia · Remoteness Area
Migration & Movement in Outer Regional Australia
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
More people have arrived from overseas in Outer Regional Australia since 2011, though overall movement remains low. While the share of recent overseas arrivals has risen to 15.4%, far fewer people move house here compared to other parts of the country.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Only 31.5% of people moved home in the last five years, which is much lower than most similar areas and well below the national figure of 40.7%. This level of stability has barely changed since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
The proportion of recent arrivals from overseas has risen to 15.4%, up from 10.6% in 2011. This is about the same as the Australian average of 14.5%.
15.4% ▲ +45.8%
Lower than 52% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 10.6%
- 2016: 11.2%
- 2021: 15.4%
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 Outer Regional Australia [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ra/RA12/outer-regional-australia/topic/mobility-location