23.3% ▲ +13.5%
Lower than 99% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 20.6%
- 2016: 15.1%
- 2021: 23.3%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
APY Lands · Statistical Area 2 (SA2)
Migration & Movement in APY Lands
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Nearly 20% of people in APY Lands arrived from overseas recently, a figure that has climbed sharply since 2011. This area sees much more international arrival than most other regions, even while it has one of the lowest rates of people moving house in the country.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Only 23.3% of residents moved home in the last five years, which is far below the national figure of 40.7%. This is among the lowest rates of movement for similar areas, though the figure rose 2.8 points since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 19.7% of the population, which is well above the 14.5% national average. This represents a significant jump from 2011, when the rate was 0.0%.
19.7% ▲ —
Higher than 82% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 13.8%
- 2021: 19.7%
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 APY Lands [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa2/406021138/apy-lands/topic/mobility-location