32.2% ▼ -4.3%
Lower than 73% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 33.7%
- 2016: 31.3%
- 2021: 32.2%
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 or arrived from overseas in Very Remote Australia since 2011. While 17.4% of residents are recent arrivals from abroad, the proportion of people who have changed homes in the last five years has dropped to 32.2%.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Only 32.2% of people here moved home in the last five years, which is well below the national figure of 40.7%. This is lower than most similar areas and represents a 1.4 percentage point drop since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 17.4% of the population, which is a little above the Australian average of 14.5%. This figure is higher than most similar areas, though it fell by 3.3 percentage points since 2011.
17.4% ▼ -16.0%
Higher than 61% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 20.7%
- 2016: 19.6%
- 2021: 17.4%
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/RA34/very-remote-australia/topic/mobility-location