36.5% ▼ -2.5%
Higher than 69% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 37.4%
- 2016: 35.2%
- 2021: 36.5%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Lakes Creek · Suburb / Locality
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Nearly one in four people in Lakes Creek arrived from overseas recently, a figure that is far above the state average. This makes the area one of the most welcoming spots for new arrivals at this level, even though fewer people have moved into the area from within Australia lately.
People who moved in the last five years.
Around 36.5% of residents moved house in the last five years. This is higher than most similar areas, but it remains well below both the Queensland and national figures.
36.5% ▼ -2.5%
Higher than 69% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 24.1% of the population. This is far above the 13.7% seen across Queensland and well above the national figure of 14.5%.
24.1% ▼ -19.8%
Higher than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of overseas-born residents who arrived in Australia in the five years before the census.
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Migration & Movement in Lakes Creek [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31624/lakes-creek/topic/mobility-location