28.0% ▲ +0.1%
Lower than 80% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 28.0%
- 2016: 27.9%
- 2021: 28.0%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Lachlan · Council (LGA)
Migration & Movement in Lachlan
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
A massive 23 percentage point gap separates Lachlan from the national average regarding recent overseas arrivals. While people in this area are far less likely to move house than others across the country, a growing number of residents have arrived from abroad.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Only 28% of people moved home in the last five years, a figure that is far below the New South Wales average of 39.9%. This level of stability has barely changed since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Overseas arrivals make up 37.2% of the population, which is among the highest rates for similar areas. This figure rose 15 percentage points since 2011 and is far above the Australian average of 14.5%.
37.2% ▲ +65.1%
Higher than 99% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 22.5%
- 2016: 25.4%
- 2021: 37.2%
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 Lachlan [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA14600/lachlan/topic/mobility-location