70.1% —
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Palmerston City · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Palmerston City
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
More than 70% of people in Palmerston City have moved here in the last five years, making it a highly transient area. This shift is driven by a massive influx of new residents, with over half the population arriving from overseas recently.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 70.1% of residents moved house in the last five years, a figure that is far above both the Northern Territory (42.0%) and the national average (40.7%).
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 52.3% of the population, which is far above the 21.0% seen across the Northern Territory and the 14.5% typical for Australia.
52.3% —
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
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 Palmerston City [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL70216/palmerston-city/topic/mobility-location