33.4% ▼ -34.0%
Lower than 68% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 50.5%
- 2016: 40.2%
- 2021: 33.4%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Inner Regional Australia · Remoteness Area
Migration & Movement in Inner Regional Australia
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
A sharp drop in new arrivals defines Inner Regional Australia, where the number of people moving into the area has plummeted since 2011. Only 33.4% of residents moved here in the last five years, which is well below the national figure of 40.7%. This trend is mirrored by a significant decline in people arriving from overseas.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Fewer people are moving to Inner Regional Australia than in most similar areas. The share of residents who moved in the last five years fell by 17 percentage points since 2011 to reach 33.4%.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Overseas arrivals have fallen sharply to just 10.0%, a drop of 19 percentage points since 2011. This is much lower than most similar areas and well below the national figure of 14.5%.
10.0% ▼ -65.0%
Lower than 86% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 28.6%
- 2016: 20.9%
- 2021: 10.0%
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 Inner Regional Australia [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ra/RA81/inner-regional-australia/topic/mobility-location