45.3% —
Higher than 75% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2016: 45.1%
- 2021: 45.3%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Lidcombe · Statistical Area 2 (SA2)
Migration & Movement in Lidcombe
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Almost half of all residents in Lidcombe have moved house in the last five years. This high turnover is driven by a strong flow of new arrivals, with one in five people moving here from overseas.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 45.3% of people changed homes recently, which is well above the national figure of 40.7%. This level of movement is much higher than in most other similar areas and has barely changed since 2016.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 20.0% of the population, a figure well above the New South Wales average of 14.9%. This proportion is much higher than in most areas, although it fell by 2.4 percentage points since the 2016 census.
20.0% —
Higher than 82% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2016: 22.5%
- 2021: 20.0%
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 Lidcombe [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa2/125011586/lidcombe/topic/mobility-location