48.3% ▼ -0.9%
Higher than 91% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 48.7%
- 2016: 46.3%
- 2021: 48.3%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Alice Springs · Urban Area
Migration & Movement in Alice Springs
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Nearly half of all residents in Alice Springs moved here within the last five years. This high churn of people makes the town one of the most mobile areas in the country, with a population that changes more frequently than in most other Australian regions.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 48.3% of people moved here in the last five years, which is well above the national figure of 40.7%. This level of movement has remained steady since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Overseas arrivals make up 25.6% of the population, which is far above the Australian average of 14.5%. While this is still among the highest rates for similar areas, the figure fell 9.1 percentage points since 2011.
25.6% ▼ -26.3%
Higher than 91% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 34.8%
- 2016: 30.7%
- 2021: 25.6%
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 Alice Springs [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sua/7001/alice-springs/topic/mobility-location