50.1% ▲ +11.8%
Higher than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 44.8%
- 2016: 48.6%
- 2021: 50.1%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Lyons · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Lyons
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Over 50% of residents in Lyons have moved house recently, creating a population that is far more mobile than the national average. This high turnover is driven by a very strong flow of people moving into the area from both within Australia and from overseas.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About half of the people here have moved home in the last five years. This is well above the 46.1% seen across the ACT and significantly higher than the 40.7% national figure.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 29.2% of the population, a figure that is far above the 16.7% seen across the ACT and the 14.5% national average.
29.2% ▼ -2.5%
Higher than 94% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 29.9%
- 2016: 30.8%
- 2021: 29.2%
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 Lyons [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL80087/lyons/topic/mobility-location