60.3% ▲ +13.7%
Higher than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 53.0%
- 2016: 32.0%
- 2021: 60.3%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Hamilton Island · Urban Centre
Migration & Movement in Hamilton Island
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Constant movement defines daily life on Hamilton Island, where more than 60% of residents have moved house in the last five years. This high turnover is driven by a massive influx of international arrivals, with over half the population moving from overseas recently.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
The island has one of the highest rates of residential churn in the country, with 60.3% of people moving in the last five years. This is far above the national figure of 40.7% and has risen by 7.2 percentage points since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
International migration is a major feature of the area, as 50.8% of residents arrived from overseas recently. This is far above the Queensland figure of 13.7%, and the proportion of recent arrivals has climbed 13 points since 2011.
50.8% ▲ +34.6%
Higher than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 37.7%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 50.8%
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 Hamilton Island [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL315040/hamilton-island/topic/mobility-location