44.7% ▲ +7.5%
Higher than 77% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2011: 41.6%
- 2016: 45.8%
- 2021: 44.7%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Darwin Suburbs · Sub-region (SA3)
Migration & Movement in Darwin Suburbs
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Much more movement occurs here than in most similar areas, with nearly 45% of people moving house in the last five years. Darwin Suburbs is a highly mobile region where a large portion of the population has arrived from overseas, though this has declined over the last decade.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
People move here more often than in most other areas, with 44.7% changing homes in the last five years. This is well above the national figure of 40.7% and has risen by 3.1 percentage points since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 19.6% of the population, which is well above the Australian average of 14.5%. However, this figure has fallen by 7.3 percentage points since 2011.
19.6% ▼ -27.3%
Higher than 81% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2011: 26.9%
- 2016: 25.7%
- 2021: 19.6%
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 Darwin Suburbs [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa3/70102/darwin-suburbs/topic/mobility-location