54.5% ▼ -8.5%
Higher than 93% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 59.5%
- 2016: 57.8%
- 2021: 54.5%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Palm Cove · Suburb / Locality
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Over half of all residents in Palm Cove have moved house in the last five years. This creates a very mobile population where 54.5% of people are relatively new to the area, a figure far above the national average.
People who moved in the last five years.
More than half of the people here have changed homes recently, with 54.5% moving in the last five years. This is well above the Queensland figure of 44.8% and among the highest rates for similar areas.
54.5% ▼ -8.5%
Higher than 93% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 9.7% of the population. While this is higher than in most other areas, it remains well below the national figure of 14.5%.
9.7% ▼ -42.7%
Higher than 63% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of overseas-born residents who arrived in Australia in the five years before the census.
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Migration & Movement in Palm Cove [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32258/palm-cove/topic/mobility-location