47.1% ▼ -8.0%
Higher than 90% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 51.2%
- 2016: 44.5%
- 2021: 47.1%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Katherine · Urban Centre
Migration & Movement in Katherine
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Nearly half of all residents in Katherine have moved house in the last five years. This makes the area much more mobile than most of Australia, with a high proportion of people arriving from both other regions and overseas.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 47.1% of people moved here in the last five years, which is well above the national figure of 40.7%. While this remains among the highest rates for similar areas, the proportion of movers fell by 4.1 percentage points since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Overseas arrivals make up 21.6% of the population, a figure well above the Australian average of 14.5%. This is about the same as the Northern Territory overall, though the share of recent arrivals fell 6.5 percentage points since 2011.
21.6% ▼ -23.2%
Higher than 88% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 28.1%
- 2016: 24.8%
- 2021: 21.6%
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 Katherine [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL714001/katherine/topic/mobility-location