35.7% ▼ -12.0%
Higher than 54% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 40.6%
- 2016: 44.0%
- 2021: 35.7%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Thursday Island · Urban Centre
Migration & Movement in Thursday Island
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Fewer people are moving in and out of Thursday Island than in other parts of the country. This suggests a very stable local population, with only 35.7% of residents having changed homes in the last five years.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
The proportion of people who moved home in the last five years is well below the national figure of 40.7%. This rate has also fallen by 4.9 percentage points since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 10.2% of the population, which is higher than most areas. However, this is well below the Queensland figure of 13.7% and has dropped by 16 percentage points since 2011.
10.2% ▼ -60.6%
Higher than 72% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 25.9%
- 2016: 6.0%
- 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/ucl/UCL315091/thursday-island/topic/mobility-location