59.2% ▲ +10.0%
Higher than 97% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 53.8%
- 2016: 58.6%
- 2021: 59.2%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
The Gap · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in The Gap
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Far more people have moved into The Gap recently than in other parts of the country. This area sees very high levels of mobility, with nearly 60% of residents arriving within the last five years.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 59.2% of people here moved home in the last five years, which is among the highest rates for similar areas. This is far above the Northern Territory figure of 42.0% and the national rate of 40.7%.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 37.0% of the population, a figure far above the 21.0% seen across the Northern Territory and 14.5% for Australia.
37.0% ▼ -23.5%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 48.3%
- 2016: 42.4%
- 2021: 37.0%
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 The Gap [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL70253/the-gap/topic/mobility-location