34.8% ▲ +61.4%
Higher than 50% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 21.6%
- 2016: 24.7%
- 2021: 34.8%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Mataranka · Urban Centre
Migration & Movement in Mataranka
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Far more people have arrived from overseas in Mataranka than in the typical Australian town, with nearly 30% of residents being recent arrivals. While the area has seen a rise in people moving house recently, it remains less mobile than most of the Northern Territory.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 34.8% of residents moved home in the last five years, which is well below the figures for both the Northern Territory and Australia. This is a notable increase from 2011, when only 21.6% of people had moved recently.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 29.7% of the population. This is among the highest for similar areas and is far above the national figure of 14.5%.
29.7% —
Higher than 94% of urban centre areas.
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 Mataranka [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL722020/mataranka/topic/mobility-location