20.1% ▲ +39.8%
Lower than 95% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 14.4%
- 2016: 19.4%
- 2021: 20.1%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Torres Strait Island · Council (LGA)
Migration & Movement in Torres Strait Island
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Only 20.1% of people in Torres Strait Island have moved home in the last five years, making it one of the least mobile areas in the country. This low rate of movement suggests a very stable population where most residents stay in the same place long-term.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Far fewer people have moved here recently compared to the rest of the country, with a 20.1% move rate that is far below the national figure of 40.7%. However, this is a slight increase from 2011, when the figure was 14.4%.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 5.1% of the population, which is well below the Queensland figure of 13.7%. This represents a sharp drop from 2016, when 14% of the population had arrived from overseas recently.
5.1% —
Lower than 84% of council (lga) areas.
- 2016: 14.0%
- 2021: 5.1%
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 Strait Island [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA36960/torres-strait-island/topic/mobility-location