30.5% ▲ +2.5%
Lower than 81% of section of state range areas.
- 2011: 29.8%
- 2016: 27.6%
- 2021: 30.5%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Remainder of State/Territory · Section of State Range
Migration & Movement in Remainder of State/Territory
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Only 30.5% of people in the Remainder of State/Territory moved house in the last five years, a figure far below the national average. This shows a population that is much more settled than people in other parts of the country.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Moving patterns have barely changed since 2011, with 30.5% of people changing homes recently. This is much lower than most similar areas and sits 10 percentage points below the Australian figure of 40.7%.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 7.8% of the population, which is lower than most areas and well below the national figure of 14.5%. This proportion rose slightly by 1.0 percentage point since 2011.
7.8% ▲ +15.5%
Lower than 76% of section of state range areas.
- 2011: 6.7%
- 2016: 5.6%
- 2021: 7.8%
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 Remainder of State/Territory [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sosr/SOSR631/remainder-of-state-territory/topic/mobility-location