30.7% ▼ -14.5%
Lower than 70% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 35.9%
- 2016: 32.5%
- 2021: 30.7%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Light · Council (LGA)
Migration & Movement in Light
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Only 30.7% of people in Light have moved house in the last five years. This is a low rate of movement for the region, showing that residents here are much more likely to stay put compared to those in the rest of the state and country.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
The share of people who moved recently is well below the South Australian figure of 36.9% and the national figure of 40.7%. This trend has shifted over time, with the percentage of movers falling 5.2 points since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Overseas arrivals make up just 3.6% of the population, which is far below the 15.1% seen across South Australia. This figure has dropped significantly since 2011, when it sat at 9.4%.
3.6% ▼ -61.8%
Lower than 89% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 9.4%
- 2016: 4.1%
- 2021: 3.6%
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 Light [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA43650/light/topic/mobility-location