58.4% ▼ -7.9%
Higher than 96% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 63.4%
- 2016: 46.9%
- 2021: 58.4%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Alice Springs · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Alice Springs
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Far more people change their address here than in most other similar areas, making Alice Springs a highly transient place. Over half the population has moved recently, with a very high proportion of residents arriving from overseas.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 58.4% of people moved here in the last five years, which is far above the Northern Territory figure of 42.0% and the national figure of 40.7%. This rate of movement is among the highest for areas of this size.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Overseas arrivals are very common, with 38.9% of people arriving from another country recently. This is far above the 21.0% seen across the Northern Territory and 14.5% for Australia.
38.9% ▼ -10.3%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 43.4%
- 2016: 31.8%
- 2021: 38.9%
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 Alice Springs [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL70005/alice-springs/topic/mobility-location