57.1% ▲ +15.3%
Higher than 95% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 49.5%
- 2016: 50.4%
- 2021: 57.1%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Desert Springs · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Desert Springs
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
More people have moved into Desert Springs recently than in most similar areas. Over half the population has changed addresses in the last five years, and about a third of the community arrived from overseas recently.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Mobility is very high here, with 57.1% of people moving in the last five years. This is far above the 42% seen across the Northern Territory and the 40.7% national figure.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 32.6% of the population, which is among the highest for similar areas. This is far above both the Northern Territory (21%) and Australia (14.5%).
32.6% ▲ +15.8%
Higher than 96% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 28.2%
- 2016: 33.1%
- 2021: 32.6%
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 Desert Springs [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL70078/desert-springs/topic/mobility-location