31.4% ▼ -5.9%
Lower than 76% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 33.3%
- 2016: 29.4%
- 2021: 31.4%
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 are moving in and out of Outer Regional Australia compared to other parts of the country. Only 31.4% of residents have changed their home in the last five years, suggesting a population that is more settled than the national average.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
The proportion of people who moved house in the last five years is well below the Australian figure of 40.7%. This rate has also fallen slightly since 2011, and is now much lower than most other similar areas.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 12.8% of the population, which is lower than most areas and a little below the national figure of 14.5%. This proportion has barely changed over the last decade.
12.8% ▼ -2.9%
Lower than 69% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 13.2%
- 2016: 10.8%
- 2021: 12.8%
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/RA42/outer-regional-australia/topic/mobility-location