34.7% ▼ -14.9%
Lower than 64% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 40.7%
- 2016: 33.7%
- 2021: 34.7%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Outback · Statistical Area 2 (SA2)
Migration & Movement in Outback
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Fewer people are moving into Outback than in other parts of the country, though it maintains a steady flow of new arrivals from abroad. While only 34.7% of residents have moved house recently, 15% of the population arrived from overseas in the last five years.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Movement into the area has slowed, with the share of people who moved in the last five years falling by 6.1 percentage points since 2011. At 34.7%, this is well below the national figure of 40.7%.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Overseas arrivals make up 15% of the population, a figure that has barely changed since 2011. This is about the same as the rates for both South Australia and Australia.
15.0% ▼ -0.6%
Higher than 69% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 15.1%
- 2016: 15.8%
- 2021: 15.0%
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 Outback [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa2/406021141/outback/topic/mobility-location