38.5% ▲ +7.5%
Higher than 56% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 35.8%
- 2016: 34.3%
- 2021: 38.5%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Remote Australia · Remoteness Area
Migration & Movement in Remote Australia
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Nearly 18% of people in Remote Australia arrived from overseas recently, a figure well above the national average. This shift toward a more international population is a key feature of the region's changing movement patterns.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 38.5% of residents moved home in the last five years, which is a little below the Australian figure of 40.7%. This proportion has risen by 2.7 percentage points since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 17.8% of the population, which is higher than most areas and well above the national rate of 14.5%. This figure has grown steadily, rising 4.6 percentage points since 2011.
17.8% ▲ +34.9%
Higher than 63% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 13.2%
- 2016: 14.2%
- 2021: 17.8%
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 Remote Australia [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ra/RA63/remote-australia/topic/mobility-location