38.1% ▲ +3.8%
Higher than 51% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 36.7%
- 2016: 36.1%
- 2021: 38.1%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Tennant Creek · Statistical Area 2 (SA2)
Migration & Movement in Tennant Creek
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
A far higher share of people live in Tennant Creek who arrived from overseas compared to the rest of the country. While 24.7% of the population are recent overseas arrivals, fewer residents have moved between Australian homes recently.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 38.1% of people moved house in the five years before the census, a figure that is a little below the national average and well below the Northern Territory's 42.0%. This proportion has risen slightly since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 24.7% of the population, which is far above the Australian figure of 14.5%. This is also well above the Northern Territory average and has risen by 5 percentage points since 2011.
24.7% ▲ +25.2%
Higher than 89% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 19.7%
- 2016: 23.9%
- 2021: 24.7%
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 Tennant Creek [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa2/702021056/tennant-creek/topic/mobility-location