34.6% ▲ +1.8%
Lower than 62% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 33.9%
- 2016: 31.2%
- 2021: 34.6%
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 have moved into Outer Regional Australia recently compared to other parts of the country. Only 34.6% of residents shifted homes in the last five years, and the area attracts far fewer overseas arrivals than the national average.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Movement into the area is well below the national figure of 40.7%. This trend has barely changed since 2011, when 33.9% of people had moved in the previous five years.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 10.2% of the population, which is much lower than most other areas. While this is well below the Australian average of 14.5%, the figure has risen by 2.5 percentage points since 2011.
10.2% ▲ +33.4%
Lower than 86% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 7.6%
- 2016: 6.1%
- 2021: 10.2%
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/RA62/outer-regional-australia/topic/mobility-location