32.0% ▲ +2.2%
Lower than 86% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2011: 31.3%
- 2016: 32.4%
- 2021: 32.0%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Lord Howe Island · Sub-region (SA3)
Migration & Movement in Lord Howe Island
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Far fewer people have moved to Lord Howe Island recently compared to most other areas. Only 32% of residents arrived in the last five years, showing a very stable population that has barely changed in its patterns since 2011.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
The proportion of people who moved here in the last five years is 32%, which is well below the figures for New South Wales (39.9%) and Australia (40.7%).
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 11.7% of the population, a figure that is a little below the national average of 14.5%.
11.7% ▼ -4.5%
Lower than 55% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2011: 12.2%
- 2016: 10.0%
- 2021: 11.7%
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 Lord Howe Island [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa3/10803/lord-howe-island/topic/mobility-location