14.1% ▲ +46.5%
Lower than 99% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 9.6%
- 2016: 12.6%
- 2021: 14.1%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Palm Island · Council (LGA)
Migration & Movement in Palm Island
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Movement into Palm Island has increased since 2011, though the area remains very stable overall. While internal migration is low, over a quarter of the population arrived from overseas recently, which is a much higher proportion than in most other areas.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Only 14.1% of people moved here in the last five years, a figure that is far below the national rate of 40.7%. This is among the lowest levels of movement seen in similar areas.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 25.7% of the population, which is far above the Queensland figure of 13.7%. This proportion has risen by 4.4 percentage points since 2016.
25.7% —
Higher than 90% of council (lga) areas.
- 2016: 21.3%
- 2021: 25.7%
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 Palm Island [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA35790/palm-island/topic/mobility-location