28.9% ▼ -3.1%
Lower than 58% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 29.8%
- 2016: 31.6%
- 2021: 28.9%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Palmers Island · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Palmers Island
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
About as many people move to Palmers Island as in similar areas, though it is far less mobile than the rest of the country. Very few residents have arrived from overseas, making it a very stable community with a low turnover of people.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 28.9% of residents moved house in the last five years. This is far below the national figure of 40.7% and the New South Wales rate of 39.9%.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
No one in the area arrived from overseas recently. This is far below the 14.5% national average and the 14.9% seen across New South Wales.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.3%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
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 Palmers Island [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13147/palmers-island/topic/mobility-location