34.3% ▼ -2.1%
Lower than 76% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2011: 35.0%
- 2016: 30.7%
- 2021: 34.3%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Katherine · Sub-region (SA3)
Migration & Movement in Katherine
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Migration patterns in Katherine have remained remarkably steady since 2011. While fewer people move into the area compared to other regions, it has a very high proportion of residents who arrived from overseas.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Only 34.3% of people moved house in the last five years, a figure well below the Northern Territory's 42.0% and the national figure of 40.7%. This level of movement is much lower than most similar areas.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 24.2% of the population, which is among the highest for this kind of area. This is well above the 21.0% seen across the Northern Territory and far higher than the Australian average of 14.5%.
24.2% ▲ +0.2%
Higher than 90% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2011: 24.1%
- 2016: 22.1%
- 2021: 24.2%
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 Katherine [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa3/70205/katherine/topic/mobility-location