49.0% ▼ -0.6%
Higher than 92% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 49.3%
- 2016: 47.1%
- 2021: 49.0%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Alice Springs · Urban Centre
Migration & Movement in Alice Springs
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Nearly half of all people in Alice Springs have moved here in the last five years, a figure well above the national average. This high turnover is paired with a strong international presence, as over a quarter of the population arrived from overseas recently.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Almost 49% of residents moved to Alice Springs within the last five years. This is well above the 40.7% seen across Australia and is among the highest rates for similar areas, though the figure has barely changed since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 25.8% of the population, which is far above the Australian figure of 14.5%. While this remains among the highest rates for similar areas, the proportion of recent arrivals fell by 9.5 percentage points since 2011.
25.8% ▼ -26.8%
Higher than 91% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 35.3%
- 2016: 31.1%
- 2021: 25.8%
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/ucl/UCL712001/alice-springs/topic/mobility-location