46.9% ▼ -23.2%
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 61.1%
- 2016: 52.1%
- 2021: 46.9%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Nhulunbuy · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Nhulunbuy
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Nearly half of all residents in Nhulunbuy have moved here in the last five years. This high level of turnover makes the town a very transient place where new faces are a common part of daily life.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 46.9% of people moved to the area in the last five years, which is much higher than most other areas and well above the national figure of 40.7%.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 13.9% of the population, a figure that is about the same as the Australian average but well below the Northern Territory's 21.0%.
13.9% ▼ -44.9%
Higher than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 25.3%
- 2016: 13.8%
- 2021: 13.9%
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 Nhulunbuy [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL70208/nhulunbuy/topic/mobility-location