46.1% ▲ +8.0%
- 2011: 42.7%
- 2016: 44.8%
- 2021: 46.1%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Australian Capital Territory · State / Territory
Migration & Movement in Australian Capital Territory
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Nearly half of all residents in the Australian Capital Territory have moved house in the last five years. This high churn makes it one of the most mobile regions in the country, with 46.1% of people changing homes since 2016.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
The 46.1% who moved recently is well above the national figure of 40.7%. This movement has increased over the last decade, rising 3.4 percentage points since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 16.7% of the population, which is much higher than most other similar areas. While this is a little above the Australian average of 14.5%, the figure fell 3.3 percentage points since 2011.
16.7% ▼ -16.6%
- 2011: 20.1%
- 2016: 21.3%
- 2021: 16.7%
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 Australian Capital Territory [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ste/8/australian-capital-territory/topic/mobility-location