27.7% ▼ -17.6%
Lower than 87% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 33.7%
- 2016: 27.6%
- 2021: 27.7%
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.
A far smaller proportion of people have moved recently in Very Remote Australia compared to the rest of the country. Only 27.7% of residents moved in the five years before the 2021 census, which is far below the national figure of 40.7%.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Far fewer people move into these areas than in most other parts of the country. This figure has also fallen, dropping 5.9 percentage points since 2011 to reach 27.7%.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 12.0% of the population, which is much lower than in most areas. This is a little below the Australian figure of 14.5% and has fallen since 2011.
12.0% ▼ -21.0%
Lower than 74% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 15.2%
- 2016: 14.7%
- 2021: 12.0%
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/RA44/very-remote-australia/topic/mobility-location