31.4% ▼ -14.6%
Lower than 89% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 36.8%
- 2016: 52.1%
- 2021: 31.4%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Nelson · State Electorate
Migration & Movement in Nelson
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Far fewer people are moving into or arriving in Nelson compared to the rest of the Territory. Only 31.4% of residents have changed homes in the last five years, making it a much more stable community than most of Australia.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Only 31.4% of people moved house in the last five years, which is far below the Northern Territory figure of 42%. This rate has fallen by 5.4 percentage points since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up just 8.2% of the population, a figure well below the national average of 14.5%. This is a sharp drop from 2011, when the proportion was 24.6%.
8.2% ▼ -66.7%
Lower than 75% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 24.6%
- 2016: 31.9%
- 2021: 8.2%
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 Nelson [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED70020/nelson/topic/mobility-location