39.5% ▼ -23.1%
Higher than 52% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 51.3%
- 2016: 49.0%
- 2021: 39.5%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Lockyer · State Electorate
Migration & Movement in Lockyer
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Fewer people have moved into Lockyer over the last decade, though it remains a major draw for new arrivals from abroad. While nearly 40% of the population changed homes recently, the area stands out for the high proportion of residents who arrived from overseas.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 39.5% of people moved home in the last five years, a figure that is well below the Queensland average and has fallen 12 points since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 18.6% of the population, which is well above the national figure of 14.5% and much higher than most other similar areas.
18.6% ▼ -7.8%
Higher than 78% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 20.2%
- 2016: 14.0%
- 2021: 18.6%
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 Lockyer [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED30043/lockyer/topic/mobility-location