24.1% ▲ +44.4%
Lower than 89% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 16.7%
- 2016: 15.1%
- 2021: 24.1%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Pormpuraaw · Council (LGA)
Migration & Movement in Pormpuraaw
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Nearly 27% of people in Pormpuraaw arrived from overseas recently, which is among the highest rates for similar areas. This high proportion of new international arrivals stands in contrast to the fact that very few people move into the community from elsewhere within Australia.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Only 24.1% of residents moved here in the last five years, a figure far below the national rate of 40.7%. This is much lower than most areas, though the proportion has risen 7.4 percentage points since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
The share of recent overseas arrivals rose sharply by 18 percentage points since 2016 to reach 27.3%. This is far above the Queensland figure of 13.7% and the Australian average of 14.5%.
27.3% —
Higher than 92% of council (lga) areas.
- 2016: 9.4%
- 2021: 27.3%
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 Pormpuraaw [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA36070/pormpuraaw/topic/mobility-location