42.0% ▼ -0.1%
- 2011: 42.1%
- 2016: 42.1%
- 2021: 42.0%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Northern Territory · State / Territory
Migration & Movement in Northern Territory
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
One in five people in the Northern Territory arrived from overseas recently, which is among the highest rates in the country. This reflects a highly mobile population where both international and domestic movement are common. Roughly 42% of the population has changed homes in the last five years.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 42% of people moved house in the last five years, a figure that is a little above the national rate of 40.7%. This high level of movement has barely changed since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 21% of the population, which is well above the national figure of 14.5%. While this remains among the highest rates for similar areas, it has fallen 6.6 percentage points since 2011.
21.0% ▼ -23.8%
- 2011: 27.5%
- 2016: 27.1%
- 2021: 21.0%
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 Northern Territory [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ste/7/northern-territory/topic/mobility-location