67.9% ▲ +5.9%
Higher than 99% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 64.1%
- 2016: 39.9%
- 2021: 67.9%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Port Darwin · State Electorate
Migration & Movement in Port Darwin
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
A far higher proportion of people have moved into Port Darwin recently than in most other parts of Australia. Nearly 68% of residents arrived in the last five years, making it a highly mobile area where new arrivals frequently settle.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 67.9% of residents moved here in the last five years, which is far above the Northern Territory figure of 42.0% and the national figure of 40.7%. This proportion has risen by 3.8 percentage points since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 33.5% of the population, a figure far above the 14.5% seen across Australia. While this remains among the highest levels for similar areas, the proportion fell by 10 percentage points since 2011.
33.5% ▼ -23.5%
Higher than 99% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 43.9%
- 2016: 23.6%
- 2021: 33.5%
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 Port Darwin [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED70022/port-darwin/topic/mobility-location