57.0% ▲ +18.7%
Higher than 95% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 48.0%
- 2016: 52.2%
- 2021: 57.0%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Rapid Creek · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Rapid Creek
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
A far higher share of people in Rapid Creek have moved recently compared to the rest of the country. Over half the residents changed homes in the last five years, reflecting a highly mobile population. This movement is driven partly by a very strong flow of people arriving from overseas.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 57.0% of residents moved house in the last five years, which is far above the Northern Territory figure of 42.0% and the national rate of 40.7%. This is among the highest rates of movement for areas of this size.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 27.0% of the population, which is well above the Northern Territory's 21.0% and far above the Australian average of 14.5%.
27.0% ▼ -21.9%
Higher than 92% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 34.6%
- 2016: 34.3%
- 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 Rapid Creek [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL70231/rapid-creek/topic/mobility-location