55.6% ▲ +10.7%
Higher than 94% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 50.3%
- 2016: 32.0%
- 2021: 55.6%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Fraser Island · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Fraser Island
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
More than half of the people living on Fraser Island have moved house recently, creating a very transient population. This high turnover is driven by a massive influx of overseas arrivals, with 37.8% of the population arriving from abroad in the last five years.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
A striking 55.6% of residents moved here in the last five years. This is far above the figures for Queensland (44.8%) and Australia (40.7%), and is among the highest rates for similar areas.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Overseas arrivals make up 37.8% of the population, which is far above the national figure of 14.5%. This high level of recent international migration helps explain why so many people in the area have moved home recently.
37.8% ▲ +16.7%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 32.4%
- 2016: 39.4%
- 2021: 37.8%
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 Fraser Island [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31081/fraser-island/topic/mobility-location