40.4% ▼ -4.9%
Higher than 61% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 42.5%
- 2016: 38.4%
- 2021: 40.4%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Goonellabah · Statistical Area 2 (SA2)
Migration & Movement in Goonellabah
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Changing addresses is common in Goonellabah, where 40.4% of people have moved house in the last five years. This level of mobility is higher than most similar areas, though it has fallen slightly since 2011.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Four in ten residents moved house in the last five years, which is about the same as the New South Wales figure of 39.9%.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 12.1% of the population, a figure that has risen since 2011 and sits a little below the national level of 14.5%.
12.1% ▲ +14.4%
Higher than 57% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 10.6%
- 2016: 10.7%
- 2021: 12.1%
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 Goonellabah [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa2/112021246/goonellabah/topic/mobility-location