23.1% ▲ +17.4%
Lower than 89% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 19.6%
- 2016: 12.3%
- 2021: 23.1%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Yuendumu · Urban Centre
Migration & Movement in Yuendumu
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Very few people have changed homes recently in Yuendumu (L), though a surprisingly high number of residents have arrived from overseas. While internal movement is among the lowest for similar areas, nearly 24% of the population moved here from another country.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Only 23.1% of people moved house in the last five years, which is far below the Northern Territory figure of 42.0%. This is among the lowest rates for similar areas, though the proportion rose 3.4 percentage points since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Overseas arrivals make up 23.8% of the population, a figure that is well above the national average of 14.5%. This proportion rose by 8.8 percentage points since 2016 and is now among the highest for similar areas.
23.8% —
Higher than 90% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 15.0%
- 2021: 23.8%
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 Yuendumu [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL721017/yuendumu/topic/mobility-location