35.6% ▲ +0.7%
Lower than 60% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 35.4%
- 2016: 39.7%
- 2021: 35.6%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Virginia · Statistical Area 2 (SA2)
Migration & Movement in Virginia
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Far fewer people move into Virginia than the national average, with only 35.6% of residents arriving in the last five years. This makes the area much more stable than the rest of the Northern Territory and Australia. Recent overseas arrivals have risen to 9.6% of the population, though this remains well below the state figure.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 35.6% of residents moved here in the last five years, a figure that is well below the national average and the Northern Territory's 42.0%. This level of movement has barely changed since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 9.6% of the population, which is far below the Northern Territory's 21.0%. This proportion has risen by 2.6 percentage points since 2011.
9.6% ▲ +36.1%
Lower than 57% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 7.1%
- 2016: 8.9%
- 2021: 9.6%
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 Virginia [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa2/701031034/virginia/topic/mobility-location