35.8% —
Higher than 56% of council (lga) areas.
- 2016: 39.1%
- 2021: 35.8%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Greater Geraldton · Council (LGA)
Migration & Movement in Greater Geraldton
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Roughly 36% of people in Greater Geraldton have moved house in the last five years. This makes it a more stable area than the state and national averages, with fewer people shifting homes recently.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
The share of residents who moved in the last five years is 35.8%, which is well below the national figure of 40.7%. This figure also fell by 3.3 percentage points since 2016.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 9.0% of the population, which is well below the Australian average of 14.5%. This proportion has dropped sharply from 17.0% in 2016.
9.0% —
Lower than 62% of council (lga) areas.
- 2016: 17.0%
- 2021: 9.0%
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 Geraldton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA53800/greater-geraldton/topic/mobility-location