35.4% ▼ -13.4%
Lower than 57% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 40.9%
- 2016: 37.8%
- 2021: 35.4%
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.
Far fewer people have moved into or arrived in Outer Regional Australia since 2011. The area has seen a steady decline in both local relocation and overseas arrivals over the last decade, leaving it with lower movement rates than the national average.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 35.4% of people moved home in the last five years, which is well below the Australian figure of 40.7%. This is a decline from 2011, when 40.9% of the population had moved.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 10.6% of the population, a figure that is much lower than most similar areas. This represents a sharp drop from 2011, when the proportion of recent overseas arrivals was 21.6%.
10.6% ▼ -51.1%
Lower than 84% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 21.6%
- 2016: 14.4%
- 2021: 10.6%
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 Outer Regional Australia [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ra/RA52/outer-regional-australia/topic/mobility-location