41.9% ▼ -15.9%
Higher than 65% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 49.8%
- 2016: 29.2%
- 2021: 41.9%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Katherine · State Electorate
Migration & Movement in Katherine
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Nearly one in five people in Katherine arrived from overseas recently, which is well above the national figure. While the area remains more mobile than most, the number of people moving into the region has dropped since 2011.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 41.9% of residents moved here in the last five years, a rate slightly above the national figure. This is a drop from 2011, when nearly half of the population had moved recently.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 19.6% of the population, which is much higher than in most other areas. This figure is well above the Australian average, though it has fallen from 24.0% in 2011.
19.6% ▼ -18.2%
Higher than 82% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 24.0%
- 2016: 28.5%
- 2021: 19.6%
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 Katherine [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED70017/katherine/topic/mobility-location