40.8% ▼ -9.9%
Higher than 71% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 45.3%
- 2016: 40.2%
- 2021: 40.8%
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 a quarter of people in Remote Australia arrived from overseas recently, a figure well above the national average. This highlight of high mobility is seen across the board, with 40.8% of the population having changed their home in the last five years.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 40.8% of residents moved home in the last five years, which is higher than most areas and about the same as the national figure. This proportion has fallen by 4.5 percentage points since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 24.4% of the population, which is much higher than most areas and nearly 10 percentage points above the Australian average. This figure fell from 31.6% in 2011.
24.4% ▼ -22.8%
Higher than 79% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 31.6%
- 2016: 28.4%
- 2021: 24.4%
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/RA73/remote-australia/topic/mobility-location