45.5% ▲ +11.3%
Higher than 88% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 40.9%
- 2016: 44.7%
- 2021: 45.5%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Lowood · Urban Centre
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Nearly half of all residents in Lowood have moved house recently, making it much more mobile than most similar areas. While 45.5% of people arrived within the last five years, the area has seen a sharp drop in new arrivals from overseas.
People who moved in the last five years.
About 45.5% of people moved here in the last five years, a figure that is well above the national average and has risen since 2011.
45.5% ▲ +11.3%
Higher than 88% of urban centre areas.
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up just 2.9% of the population, which is far below the figures for Queensland and Australia. This is a significant drop from 2011, when the share was 9.0%.
2.9% ▼ -67.6%
Lower than 59% of urban centre areas.
Share of overseas-born residents who arrived in Australia in the five years before the census.
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Migration & Movement in Lowood [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL315054/lowood/topic/mobility-location