51.4% ▼ -8.2%
Higher than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 55.9%
- 2016: 54.4%
- 2021: 51.4%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Port Douglas · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Port Douglas
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
More than half of the people in Port Douglas have moved house recently, making it a very transient place to live. This high turnover is seen in both domestic moves and a huge number of people arriving from overseas.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Over half of residents—51.4%—have moved home in the last five years. This is well above the Queensland figure of 44.8% and far above the national average of 40.7%.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
New arrivals from overseas make up 31% of the population, which is far above the figures for both Queensland and Australia. This standing is among the highest for similar areas.
31.0% ▲ +3.3%
Higher than 95% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 30.0%
- 2016: 27.5%
- 2021: 31.0%
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 Port Douglas [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32352/port-douglas/topic/mobility-location