37.0% ▲ +2.4%
Higher than 50% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 36.1%
- 2016: 35.2%
- 2021: 37.0%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Inner Regional Australia · Remoteness Area
Migration & Movement in Inner Regional Australia
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Nearly 37% of people in Inner Regional Australia have moved home in the last five years. This represents the most significant shift in the area's population movement, although the region remains less mobile than the national average.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 37% of residents moved house in the last five years, which is around the middle for similar areas. This figure is well below the Australian average of 40.7%, though it has risen slightly since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 11.1% of the population, which is much lower than most similar areas. This is well below the national figure of 14.5% and has barely changed over the last decade.
11.1% ▼ -4.5%
Lower than 80% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 11.6%
- 2016: 10.6%
- 2021: 11.1%
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 Inner Regional Australia [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ra/RA21/inner-regional-australia/topic/mobility-location