14.1% ▼ -67.7%
Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 43.7%
- 2016: 36.0%
- 2021: 14.1%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Palm Island · Urban Centre
Migration & Movement in Palm Island
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Far fewer people have moved into Palm Island recently compared to the rest of the state. Only 14.1% of residents arrived in the last five years, though a striking 25.7% of the population are recent arrivals from overseas.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Just 14.1% of people moved here in the last five years, a figure that is far below the Queensland average of 44.8%. This movement has fallen sharply since 2011, when 43.7% of residents had moved recently.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 25.7% of the population, which is far above the national figure of 14.5%. This proportion has risen by 6.3 percentage points since 2011.
25.7% ▲ +32.4%
Higher than 91% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 19.4%
- 2016: 12.4%
- 2021: 25.7%
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 Island [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL315077/palm-island/topic/mobility-location