24.5% ▲ +1.8%
Lower than 96% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 24.0%
- 2016: 21.2%
- 2021: 24.5%
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.
More than 23% of people in Very Remote Australia arrived from overseas recently, a figure well above the national average. While many people move into the area from abroad, far fewer residents have moved from other Australian regions in the last five years.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Only 24.5% of people moved house in the last five years, which is much lower than most areas and far below the national figure of 40.7%. This rate has barely changed since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 23.7% of the population, which is much higher than most areas and well above the 14.5% seen across Australia. This figure fell by 4.8 percentage points since 2011.
23.7% ▼ -16.8%
Higher than 78% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 28.5%
- 2016: 24.2%
- 2021: 23.7%
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/RA74/very-remote-australia/topic/mobility-location