34.5% —
Lower than 84% of federal electorate areas.
- 2016: 31.1%
- 2021: 34.5%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Lingiari · Federal Electorate
Migration & Movement in Lingiari
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Nearly one in five people in Lingiari arrived from overseas recently, making it an area with a much higher proportion of new arrivals than most of Australia. While it is very welcoming to overseas migrants, it is much less likely to see people moving between different Australian homes.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Only 34.5% of residents moved home in the last five years, a figure well below the national average of 40.7%. This is much lower than most areas, though the proportion rose by 3.4 percentage points since 2016.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 19.0% of the population, which is well above the Australian figure of 14.5%. This is a high proportion compared to most areas, even though it fell 5.0 percentage points since 2011.
19.0% ▼ -21.0%
Higher than 79% of federal electorate areas.
- 2011: 24.0%
- 2016: 22.5%
- 2021: 19.0%
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 Lingiari [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ced/CED701/lingiari/topic/mobility-location