12.1% ▲ +20.4%
Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 10.0%
- 2016: 12.1%
- 2021: 12.1%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Wadeye · Urban Centre
Migration & Movement in Wadeye
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
A far higher proportion of people in Wadeye arrived from overseas recently compared to the rest of the country. While nearly a quarter of the population are recent overseas arrivals, very few people in the area have moved house in the last five years.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Only 12.1% of residents moved house in the last five years, a figure far below the Northern Territory's 42.0% and the national average of 40.7%. This is among the lowest rates of movement for similar areas, though it has risen slightly since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 24.5% of the population, which is well above the Territory's 21.0% and far above the Australian figure of 14.5%. This represents a significant drop from 2016, when the figure was 43.8%.
24.5% —
Higher than 90% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 43.8%
- 2021: 24.5%
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 Wadeye [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL715008/wadeye/topic/mobility-location