20.1% ▲ +39.6%
Lower than 99% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 14.4%
- 2016: 19.4%
- 2021: 20.1%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Torres Strait Islands · Statistical Area 2 (SA2)
Migration & Movement in Torres Strait Islands
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Very few people change their address in the Torres Strait Islands, making it a place where residents tend to stay put. Only about one in five people moved in the last five years, which is far below the figures for Queensland and Australia.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Just 20.1% of people moved home in the last five years, which is among the lowest rates for similar areas. While this is far below the national figure of 40.7%, the proportion of people moving has risen by 5.7 percentage points since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 5.1% of the population, which is much lower than most other areas. This is well below the 14.5% seen across Australia and represents a fall of 8.9 percentage points since 2016.
5.1% —
Lower than 85% of statistical area 2 (sa2) 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 Islands [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa2/315011402/torres-strait-islands/topic/mobility-location