35.3% ▼ -8.4%
Lower than 57% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 38.6%
- 2016: 35.4%
- 2021: 35.3%
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.
Nearly one in five people in Remote Australia arrived from overseas recently, a figure well above the national average. This creates a distinct migration pattern where international arrivals are more common than the internal movement seen across the rest of the country.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 35.3% of residents moved home in the last five years, which is well below the national figure of 40.7%. This proportion has fallen by 3.2 percentage points since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 19.6% of the population, which is higher than most other areas. While this is well above the Australian average of 14.5%, the figure has fallen by 5.9 percentage points since 2011.
19.6% ▼ -23.0%
Higher than 72% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 25.4%
- 2016: 20.7%
- 2021: 19.6%
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/RA33/remote-australia/topic/mobility-location