84.4% —
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 82.8%
- 2021: 84.4%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Lawson · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Lawson
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
A massive 84.4% of Lawson residents have moved house in the last five years, far exceeding the national figure. This creates a highly mobile community where nearly nine in ten people are relatively new to the area.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
The movement into Lawson is far above the state average, with 84.4% of people arriving within the last five years. This is 38 points higher than the typical ACT area.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 27.8% of the population, a figure far above both the ACT and the national average. This high level of international migration helps explain why so many people in Lawson have moved recently.
27.8% —
Higher than 93% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 23.8%
- 2021: 27.8%
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 Lawson [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL80085/lawson/topic/mobility-location