24.7% ▲ +1.4%
Lower than 97% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 24.4%
- 2016: 26.5%
- 2021: 24.7%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Christmas Island · Statistical Area 2 (SA2)
Migration & Movement in Christmas Island
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Few people move in or out of Christmas Island, making it one of the most stable places to live in the country. Only 24.7% of residents have changed their home in the last five years, which is far below the national figure of 40.7%.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Movement into the area is very low compared to most places, with 24.7% of people moving house since 2016. This figure is well below the 30.2% seen across other territories and has barely changed since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up just 3.0% of the population, which is far below the Australian average of 14.5%. This proportion has fallen by 2.5 percentage points since 2011.
3.0% ▼ -45.8%
Lower than 96% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 5.5%
- 2016: 7.7%
- 2021: 3.0%
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 Christmas Island [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa2/901011001/christmas-island/topic/mobility-location