28.1% ▼ -9.5%
Lower than 99% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 31.1%
- 2016: 27.4%
- 2021: 28.1%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Not in any Significant Urban Area · Urban Area
Migration & Movement in Not in any Significant Urban Area
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Fewer people move into Not in any Significant Urban Area (NT) than in most other parts of the country, yet it remains a draw for overseas arrivals. While only 28.1% of residents changed homes recently, nearly one in five people arrived from abroad in the last five years.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Only 28.1% of people moved in the last five years, a figure far below the national average of 40.7%. This rate has also fallen by 3.0 percentage points since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 19.5% of the population, which is well above the Australian figure of 14.5%. This is a little below the Northern Territory average of 21.0%.
19.5% ▼ -7.4%
Higher than 79% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 21.1%
- 2016: 20.9%
- 2021: 19.5%
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 Not in any Significant Urban Area [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sua/7000/not-in-any-significant-urban-area/topic/mobility-location