36.1% ▼ -12.5%
Lower than 54% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 41.3%
- 2016: 39.2%
- 2021: 36.1%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Inner Regional Australia · Remoteness Area
Migration & Movement in Inner Regional Australia
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Only 7.1% of people in Inner Regional Australia arrived from overseas recently, a figure that has fallen sharply since 2011. This area sees less movement than most of the country, with both internal and international migration levels sitting well below the national figures.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 36.1% of residents moved home in the last five years, which is around the middle for similar areas. This is well below the Australian average of 40.7% and has fallen by 5.1 percentage points since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 7.1% of the population, which is much lower than most other areas. This is well below the national figure of 14.5% and represents a drop of 9 percentage points since 2011.
7.1% ▼ -55.8%
Lower than 93% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 16.1%
- 2016: 12.2%
- 2021: 7.1%
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 Inner Regional Australia [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ra/RA51/inner-regional-australia/topic/mobility-location