12.1% ▲ +20.4%
Lower than 94% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.0%
- 2016: 12.1%
- 2021: 12.1%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Wadeye · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Wadeye
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Almost a quarter of people in Wadeye arrived from overseas recently, which is a very high figure for the region. While new international arrivals are common, very few people have moved into the area from within Australia over the last five years.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Only 12.1% of residents moved house in the last five years. This is far below the Northern Territory figure of 42% and the national rate of 40.7%, putting Wadeye among the lowest areas for internal movement.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 24.5% of the population. This is well above the Northern Territory's 21% and far above the Australian figure of 14.5%.
24.5% —
Higher than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 43.8%
- 2021: 24.5%
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 Wadeye [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL70275/wadeye/topic/mobility-location