48.1% ▼ -5.2%
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 50.7%
- 2016: 36.2%
- 2021: 48.1%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Tiwi Islands · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Tiwi Islands
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Nearly half of all residents in the Tiwi Islands have moved house recently, placing this area among the highest for mobility. This high turnover means the community is much more transient than both the Northern Territory and the rest of the country.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 48.1% of people moved in the last five years, a figure well above the 42.0% seen in the Northern Territory and the 40.7% national average.
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 Tiwi Islands [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL70263/tiwi-islands/topic/mobility-location