35.7% ▼ -12.7%
Higher than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 40.9%
- 2016: 36.8%
- 2021: 35.7%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Thursday Island · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Thursday Island
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Fewer people have moved into Thursday Island recently compared to the state and national trends. While 35.7% of residents arrived in the last five years, this is well below the national figure of 40.7%.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 35.7% of people here moved house in the last five years. This is higher than most similar areas, though it remains well below the 44.8% seen across Queensland.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 10.2% of the population. While this is higher than in most similar areas, it is well below the Australian figure of 14.5%.
10.2% ▼ -58.4%
Higher than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 24.5%
- 2016: 14.4%
- 2021: 10.2%
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 Thursday Island [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32823/thursday-island/topic/mobility-location