51.4% ▼ -7.5%
Higher than 90% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2011: 55.6%
- 2016: 56.9%
- 2021: 51.4%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Palmerston · Sub-region (SA3)
Migration & Movement in Palmerston
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
More than half of the people in Palmerston have moved house since 2011, though this trend has slowed. While 51.4% of residents arrived in the last five years, the proportion of recent overseas arrivals has fallen significantly over the last decade.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Over half of the people in Palmerston moved here in the last five years. This 51.4% figure is far above the national average of 40.7% and well above the Territory's 42.0%, though it has fallen slightly since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 14.3% of the population, which is about the same as the national figure. This is well below the Northern Territory average and represents a drop of 8.2 percentage points since 2011.
14.3% ▼ -36.6%
Higher than 59% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2011: 22.5%
- 2016: 23.6%
- 2021: 14.3%
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 Palmerston [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa3/70104/palmerston/topic/mobility-location