18.8% ▲ +108.6%
Lower than 95% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 9.0%
- 2016: 34.5%
- 2021: 18.8%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Boigu Island · Urban Centre
Migration & Movement in Boigu Island
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Far fewer people move into Boigu Island than in other parts of the country, with only 18.8% of residents arriving in the last five years. This low turnover suggests a very stable population where most people stay long-term.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
The proportion of people who moved here in the last five years is far below the Queensland figure of 44.8% and the national figure of 40.7%. While this is among the lowest rates for similar areas, the figure has risen 9.8 percentage points since 2011.
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 Boigu Island [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL322017/boigu-island/topic/mobility-location