45.1% ▼ -22.1%
Higher than 82% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 57.9%
- 2016: 46.1%
- 2021: 45.1%
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.
A sharp drop in mobility marks the recent history of Not in any Significant Urban Area (ACT), where both home moves and overseas arrivals have fallen by 13 percentage points since 2011. Today, 45.1% of residents have moved in the last five years, making it a more mobile place than most of Australia.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
While a little below the ACT figure, 45.1% of people here moved homes in the last five years. This is well above the national figure of 40.7% and much higher than most similar areas.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 16.3% of the population, which is higher than most areas and a little above the national figure of 14.5%.
16.3% ▼ -44.7%
Higher than 69% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 29.5%
- 2016: 24.7%
- 2021: 16.3%
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 Not in any Significant Urban Area [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sua/8000/not-in-any-significant-urban-area/topic/mobility-location