35.4% ▼ -11.1%
Higher than 54% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 39.8%
- 2016: 35.2%
- 2021: 35.4%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Torres · Council (LGA)
Migration & Movement in Torres
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Fewer people are moving house in Torres than in most other parts of the country. While 13.9% of the population arrived from overseas recently, the number of people changing their address has dropped over the last decade.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Around 35.4% of residents moved home in the last five years, which is well below the national figure of 40.7% and the Queensland rate of 44.8%. This proportion has fallen by 4.4 percentage points since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 13.9% of the population, a figure higher than most areas and about the same as the national rate. However, this has fallen by 9.0 percentage points since 2011.
13.9% ▼ -39.4%
Higher than 59% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 23.0%
- 2016: 12.2%
- 2021: 13.9%
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 Torres [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA36950/torres/topic/mobility-location