27.0% ▲ +6.6%
Lower than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 25.3%
- 2016: 28.6%
- 2021: 27.0%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Bamaga · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Bamaga
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Stability defines the population of Bamaga, where very few people have changed their place of residence recently. Only 27% of residents moved in the last five years, a figure far below both the state and national averages.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Just 27% of people here moved in the last five years. This is far below the Queensland figure of 44.8% and the national rate of 40.7%, meaning residents are much more likely to stay put than people in most other areas.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
No recent arrivals from overseas were recorded in Bamaga. This 0% rate is far below the 13.7% seen across Queensland and the 14.5% national average.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 11.5%
- 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 Bamaga [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30135/bamaga/topic/mobility-location