20.8% ▲ +18.7%
Lower than 83% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 17.5%
- 2016: 12.3%
- 2021: 20.8%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Yirrkala · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Yirrkala
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
A huge gap exists between Yirrkala and the rest of the country in how people move. While only 20.8% of residents have moved recently, the area sees a much higher share of overseas arrivals than the national average.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Only 20.8% of people moved house in the last five years. This is far below the 42% seen across the Northern Territory and the 40.7% national figure, making it much lower than most areas.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 32.1% of the population. This is among the highest rates for similar areas and sits far above both the Northern Territory's 21% and the Australian average of 14.5%.
32.1% —
Higher than 96% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 15.0%
- 2021: 32.1%
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 Yirrkala [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL70299/yirrkala/topic/mobility-location