25.4% ▼ -14.8%
Lower than 93% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 29.8%
- 2016: 25.1%
- 2021: 25.4%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Very Remote Australia · Remoteness Area
Migration & Movement in Very Remote Australia
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Fewer people have moved into Very Remote Australia since 2011, reflecting a shift in how the population is shifting. While the area attracts more new overseas arrivals than the national figure, overall movement into the region is much lower than in most other parts of the country.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Only 25.4% of people moved house in the last five years, which is far below the Australian figure of 40.7%. This represents a 4.4 percentage point drop since 2011 and is much lower than most other areas.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 19.5% of the population, which is well above the national figure of 14.5%. This is higher than most areas, although the proportion fell slightly by 1.5 percentage points since 2011.
19.5% ▼ -7.1%
Higher than 71% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 21.0%
- 2016: 13.6%
- 2021: 19.5%
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 Very Remote Australia [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ra/RA14/very-remote-australia/topic/mobility-location