32.7% ▼ -6.1%
Lower than 72% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 34.8%
- 2016: 31.3%
- 2021: 32.7%
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 gap of 8 percentage points separates Very Remote Australia from the national average in terms of people moving home. Only 32.7% of residents have shifted house in the last five years, which is lower than most other areas. This suggests a population that is far more settled than the rest of the country.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 32.7% of people moved in the last five years, a figure that is well below the Australian average of 40.7% and has fallen since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 12.5% of the population, which is a little below the national figure of 14.5% and has barely changed since 2011.
12.5% ▼ -2.0%
Lower than 71% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 12.7%
- 2016: 9.4%
- 2021: 12.5%
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/RA64/very-remote-australia/topic/mobility-location