27.3% ▼ -10.5%
Lower than 88% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 30.5%
- 2016: 28.2%
- 2021: 27.3%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Remote Australia · Remoteness Area
Migration & Movement in Remote Australia
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
A massive 13 percentage point gap separates Remote Australia from the national average in two opposite ways. While far fewer people move into the area from other Australian towns, it attracts a much higher share of new arrivals from overseas. This creates a unique movement pattern where international growth offsets a decline in domestic migration.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Only 27.3% of residents moved home in the last five years, which is far below the national figure of 40.7%. This proportion is much lower than most similar areas and has fallen by 3.2 percentage points since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 27.3% of the population, a figure far above the Australian average of 14.5%. This is much higher than most similar areas and has risen by 4.9 percentage points since 2011.
27.3% ▲ +21.7%
Higher than 84% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 22.4%
- 2016: 16.7%
- 2021: 27.3%
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 Remote Australia [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ra/RA13/remote-australia/topic/mobility-location