42.8% ▲ +14.0%
Higher than 84% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 37.5%
- 2016: 39.4%
- 2021: 42.8%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Greater Geelong · Council (LGA)
Migration & Movement in Greater Geelong
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
More people have changed addresses here than in most similar areas, with 42.8% of Greater Geelong residents moving in the last five years. This trend of shifting homes has risen since 2011, making the region's population more mobile than the state and national figures.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Around 42.8% of people moved house in the last five years, which is a little above the Victorian figure of 40.0% and the national figure of 40.7%. This proportion rose by 5.3 percentage points since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 14.2% of the population, a figure that is higher than most areas. This is about the same as the national figure of 14.5% and has barely changed since 2011.
14.2% ▲ +5.9%
Higher than 61% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 13.4%
- 2016: 14.5%
- 2021: 14.2%
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 Greater Geelong [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA22750/greater-geelong/topic/mobility-location