30.5% ▲ +1.0%
Lower than 71% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 30.2%
- 2016: 29.3%
- 2021: 30.5%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Lithgow · Council (LGA)
Migration & Movement in Lithgow
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Far fewer people move into Lithgow than in most other similar areas. Only 30.5% of residents have changed homes in the last five years, which is a much lower rate of movement than seen across the state and country.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
The 30.5% who moved recently is far below the national figure of 40.7%. This level of stability has barely changed since 2011, when the figure was 30.2%.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Overseas arrivals are also much lower here than in most areas, with only 6.5% of the population arriving from abroad recently. This is well below the New South Wales figure of 14.9%.
6.5% ▲ +10.8%
Lower than 75% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 5.8%
- 2016: 6.2%
- 2021: 6.5%
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 Lithgow [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA14870/lithgow/topic/mobility-location