40.2% ▲ +6.6%
Higher than 78% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 37.7%
- 2016: 35.9%
- 2021: 40.2%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Lamb Island · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Lamb Island
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Nearly 40% of residents have moved to Lamb Island in the last five years, showing a trend of shifting populations since 2011. This movement is largely internal, as the island sees very few new arrivals from overseas compared to the rest of the country.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 40.2% of people moved here in the last five years. This is much higher than most similar areas, though it is well below the Queensland figure of 44.8%.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 4.8% of the population. This is around the middle for similar areas, but well below both the state (13.7%) and national (14.5%) figures.
4.8% ▼ -60.8%
Lower than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.1%
- 2016: 11.2%
- 2021: 4.8%
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 Lamb Island [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31626/lamb-island/topic/mobility-location