31.9% ▲ +0.3%
Lower than 94% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 31.8%
- 2016: 39.9%
- 2021: 31.9%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Lithgow · Urban Area
Migration & Movement in Lithgow
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Barely 32% of people in Lithgow have moved house in the last five years, which is well below the national figure. This stability is reflected in both local and overseas migration patterns, with the area seeing much lower movement than most other parts of the country.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Only 31.9% of residents have changed homes in the last five years. This is well below the New South Wales rate of 39.9% and has barely changed since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 6.4% of the population, a figure that is much lower than most areas and well below the Australian average of 14.5%. This proportion has fallen slightly from 7.5% in 2011.
6.4% ▼ -13.8%
Lower than 90% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 7.5%
- 2016: 6.8%
- 2021: 6.4%
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 Lithgow [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sua/1019/lithgow/topic/mobility-location