46.8% ▼ -4.2%
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 48.9%
- 2016: 44.3%
- 2021: 46.8%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Katherine · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Katherine
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Nearly half of all residents in Katherine have moved house in the last five years, making it one of the most mobile areas in the country. This high turnover is matched by a very strong trend of people arriving from overseas to settle here.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 46.8% of people moved in the last five years, which is much higher than most areas. This figure is well above both the Northern Territory's 42.0% and the national figure of 40.7%.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 27.0% of the population, a rate among the highest for similar areas. This is far above the Australian average of 14.5% and well above the Northern Territory's 21.0%.
27.0% ▼ -11.1%
Higher than 92% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 30.4%
- 2016: 28.2%
- 2021: 27.0%
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/sal/SAL70144/katherine/topic/mobility-location