49.3% ▼ -13.9%
Higher than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 57.3%
- 2016: 48.5%
- 2021: 49.3%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Katherine East · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Katherine East
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Nearly half of all residents in Katherine East have moved house in the last five years. This high turnover makes the area far more mobile than the rest of the Northern Territory and Australia.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Almost 49.3% of people here moved in the last five years, a figure that is well above both the Northern Territory average of 42% and the national figure of 40.7%. This is among the highest rates of movement seen in similar areas.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 18.5% of the population, which is much higher than most areas. While this is a little below the Northern Territory's 21%, it is well above the Australian average of 14.5%.
18.5% ▼ -28.9%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 26.1%
- 2016: 22.9%
- 2021: 18.5%
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 East [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL70145/katherine-east/topic/mobility-location