28.2% ▼ -4.9%
Lower than 60% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 29.7%
- 2016: 30.5%
- 2021: 28.2%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Lightning Ridge · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Lightning Ridge
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Far fewer people have changed homes recently in Lightning Ridge compared to the rest of the country. Only 28.2% of residents moved in the last five years, showing a much more stable population than the national average.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Just 28.2% of people moved house in the last five years. This is far below the New South Wales figure of 39.9% and the Australian average of 40.7%.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 8.8% of the population, which is higher than in most similar areas. However, this is still well below the 14.5% national figure.
8.8% ▲ +58.8%
Higher than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.5%
- 2016: 5.3%
- 2021: 8.8%
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 Lightning Ridge [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL12329/lightning-ridge/topic/mobility-location