33.7% ▲ +1.3%
Lower than 67% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 33.2%
- 2016: 31.4%
- 2021: 33.7%
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.
Fewer people move house in Outer Regional Australia than in other parts of the country. While 33.7% of residents have changed homes in the last five years, this is well below the national figure of 40.7%.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Movement is quite low here, with the share of people who moved in the last five years barely changing since 2011. This 33.7% figure is lower than most similar areas.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 17.7% of the population, which is well above the Australian figure of 14.5%. This proportion has risen by 3.1 percentage points since 2011.
17.7% ▲ +21.4%
Higher than 63% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 14.6%
- 2016: 13.5%
- 2021: 17.7%
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/RA22/outer-regional-australia/topic/mobility-location