49.4% ▲ +1.6%
Higher than 93% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 48.6%
- 2016: 50.7%
- 2021: 49.4%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Darwin · Urban Area
Migration & Movement in Darwin
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Nearly half of all residents in Darwin have moved here in the last five years, making it a very mobile place to live. This high turnover is driven by a mix of people moving from other states and a significant number of arrivals from overseas.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 49.4% of people moved house in the last five years, a figure well above the national rate of 40.7%. This level of movement has remained steady since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
One in five residents—20.3%—arrived from overseas recently, which is well above the Australian figure of 14.5%. This proportion has fallen by 7.2 percentage points since 2011.
20.3% ▼ -26.2%
Higher than 82% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 27.5%
- 2016: 27.5%
- 2021: 20.3%
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 Darwin [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sua/7002/darwin/topic/mobility-location