50.1% ▲ +11.7%
Higher than 85% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 44.9%
- 2016: 48.6%
- 2021: 50.1%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Lyons · Statistical Area 2 (SA2)
Migration & Movement in Lyons
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Nearly 30% of people in Lyons arrived from overseas recently, making it one of the most welcoming areas for new migrants. This high level of international arrival is matched by a general trend of people moving in, with over half the population changing homes in the last five years.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 50.1% of residents moved here in the last five years, which is well above the 46.1% for the ACT and the national figure of 40.7%. This proportion has risen by 5.2 percentage points since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 29.2% of the population, a figure far above the 16.7% seen across the ACT. This level of recent migration has remained steady since 2011.
29.2% ▼ -2.1%
Higher than 93% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 29.8%
- 2016: 30.8%
- 2021: 29.2%
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 Lyons [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa2/801091105/lyons/topic/mobility-location