26.5% ▲ +60.6%
Lower than 99% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 16.5%
- 2016: 21.7%
- 2021: 26.5%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Arnhem · State Electorate
Migration & Movement in Arnhem
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
More people have moved into Arnhem over the last decade, though the area remains far more stable than most of the country. While few locals change homes, a striking 30.8% of the population arrived from overseas recently, which is well above the Northern Territory and national figures.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Only 26.5% of people moved home in the five years before 2021, a figure far below the national average of 40.7%. This movement has risen by 10 percentage points since 2011, but it remains among the lowest for similar areas.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 30.8% of the population, which is far above the Australian figure of 14.5%. This proportion has fallen slightly by 4.6 percentage points since 2011.
30.8% ▼ -13.0%
Higher than 99% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 35.4%
- 2016: 21.5%
- 2021: 30.8%
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 Arnhem [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED70003/arnhem/topic/mobility-location