47.5% ▲ +0.8%
Higher than 86% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 47.1%
- 2016: 49.2%
- 2021: 47.5%
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 more people move into and out of Outer Regional Australia than in most similar areas. Nearly half of all residents have changed their home in the last five years, reflecting a highly mobile population. This movement includes a significant number of people arriving from overseas, though these numbers have dropped since 2011.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 47.5% of residents moved home in the last five years, which is well above the national figure of 40.7%. This high level of movement is much higher than most similar areas and has barely changed since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 19.8% of the population, a figure well above the Australian average of 14.5%. While this is much higher than in most similar areas, the proportion of new arrivals fell by 6.5 percentage points since 2011.
19.8% ▼ -24.6%
Higher than 72% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 26.2%
- 2016: 26.7%
- 2021: 19.8%
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 Outer Regional Australia [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ra/RA72/outer-regional-australia/topic/mobility-location