38.8% ▲ +17.4%
Higher than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 33.0%
- 2016: 48.6%
- 2021: 38.8%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Lakeland · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Lakeland
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
More than half of the people in Lakeland arrived from overseas recently, creating a highly international atmosphere for the area. While 38.8% of residents have moved house in the last five years, the town is defined by its massive proportion of new arrivals from abroad.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Nearly 39% of residents moved here in the last five years. This is much higher than most similar areas, though it remains a little below the national figure of 40.7%.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Overseas arrivals make up 50.8% of the population, which is among the highest for this level of area. This is far above both the Queensland figure of 13.7% and the Australian average of 14.5%.
50.8% ▼ -25.7%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 68.3%
- 2016: 38.1%
- 2021: 50.8%
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 Lakeland [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31623/lakeland/topic/mobility-location