54.2% ▼ -6.8%
Higher than 92% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2011: 58.1%
- 2016: 55.8%
- 2021: 54.2%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
North Lakes · Sub-region (SA3)
Migration & Movement in North Lakes
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Over half of all residents in North Lakes have moved house in the last five years. This makes it one of the most mobile areas in the region, with a far higher proportion of recent movers than the national average.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 54.2% of people here moved home in the last five years, which is well above the Queensland figure of 44.8% and far above the Australian average. This level of movement has fallen slightly by 4 percentage points since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 12.4% of the population, which is a little below the national figure of 14.5%. This is a significant drop from 2011, when the share of recent overseas arrivals was 29%.
12.4% ▼ -57.2%
Lower than 51% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2011: 29.0%
- 2016: 17.9%
- 2021: 12.4%
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 North Lakes [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa3/31402/north-lakes/topic/mobility-location