22.2% ▲ +0.8%
Lower than 99% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 22.0%
- 2016: 16.2%
- 2021: 22.2%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Tanami · Statistical Area 2 (SA2)
Migration & Movement in Tanami
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
A far smaller proportion of people have moved house in Tanami compared to the rest of the country. While only 22.2% of residents changed homes recently, more than one in five people here arrived from overseas, which is well above the national figure.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Just 22.2% of people moved in the last five years, a rate far below the Northern Territory's 42% and the national figure of 40.7%. This level of stability has barely changed since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 20.9% of the population, which is much higher than most areas and well above the Australian average of 14.5%. This figure rose by 6.8 percentage points since 2011.
20.9% ▲ +48.5%
Higher than 85% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 14.1%
- 2016: 16.2%
- 2021: 20.9%
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 Tanami [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa2/702011053/tanami/topic/mobility-location