31.1% ▼ -9.6%
Lower than 69% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 34.4%
- 2016: 45.8%
- 2021: 31.1%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Lightning Ridge · Urban Centre
Migration & Movement in Lightning Ridge
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
More people have arrived from overseas in Lightning Ridge since 2011, even as fewer residents moved into the area overall. This shift is seen in the 12.7% of residents who are recent arrivals from abroad, a figure that is much higher than most similar areas.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Only 31.1% of people moved here in the last five years, which is well below the national figure of 40.7%. This is a downward trend, as the share of people moving into the area fell 3.3 points since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 12.7% of the population, which is much higher than most similar areas. This figure rose 6.0 points since 2011, though it remains a little below the New South Wales figure of 14.9%.
12.7% ▲ +90.3%
Higher than 76% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 6.7%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 12.7%
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 Lightning Ridge [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL115098/lightning-ridge/topic/mobility-location