48.9% ▲ +3.1%
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 47.4%
- 2016: 46.2%
- 2021: 48.9%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Palm Beach · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Palm Beach
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Nearly half of all residents in Palm Beach have moved house in the last five years, a rate well above the national figure. This reflects a highly mobile population where people frequently shift in and out of the area. This movement is mirrored by a significant number of people arriving from overseas.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 48.9% of people moved here in the last five years, which is among the highest rates for similar areas. This is well above the 44.8% seen across Queensland and 8.2 percentage points higher than the Australian average.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 13.4% of the population, which is much higher than most areas. This figure is about the same as the Queensland average and just a little below the national rate of 14.5%.
13.4% ▼ -21.1%
Higher than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 17.0%
- 2016: 12.8%
- 2021: 13.4%
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 Palm Beach [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32257/palm-beach/topic/mobility-location