28.1% ▲ +2.9%
Lower than 99% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 27.4%
- 2016: 27.2%
- 2021: 28.1%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Barkly · State Electorate
Migration & Movement in Barkly
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
A quarter of people in Barkly arrived from overseas recently, making it an area with a very high proportion of new international residents. While these recent arrivals are common, very few people have moved into the region from other parts of Australia in the last five years.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Only 28.1% of residents moved here in the last five years, which is far below the Northern Territory figure of 42%. This low level of movement has barely changed since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 25.7% of the population, a figure that is well above the Northern Territory average and far above the national figure of 14.5%.
25.7% ▲ +8.4%
Higher than 92% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 23.7%
- 2016: 26.7%
- 2021: 25.7%
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 Barkly [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED70004/barkly/topic/mobility-location