31.6% ▼ -14.7%
Higher than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 37.0%
- 2016: 32.3%
- 2021: 31.6%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Virginia · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Virginia
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Roughly 31.6% of people in Virginia have moved house in the last five years. This means more people in Virginia stay in their homes longer compared to the rest of the Northern Territory and Australia.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 31.6% of residents moved house in the last five years, a figure that is far below the Northern Territory average of 42.0% and well below the national figure of 40.7%.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 5.9% of the population, which is far below the Northern Territory's 21.0% and well below the Australian average of 14.5%.
5.9% ▼ -6.6%
Lower than 54% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 6.3%
- 2016: 6.0%
- 2021: 5.9%
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 Virginia [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL70274/virginia/topic/mobility-location