44.2% ▲ +6.2%
Higher than 73% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 41.7%
- 2016: 41.5%
- 2021: 44.2%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Geelong · Statistical Area 2 (SA2)
Migration & Movement in Geelong
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
More people have moved into Geelong recently than in most similar areas. This is a highly mobile place where 44.2% of residents shifted home in the last five years, a figure well above the national average.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 44.2% of people have moved house since 2016, which is well above the 40.7% national figure. This proportion has risen by 2.6 percentage points since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 20.5% of the population, which is much higher than most areas and well above the 14.5% seen across Australia. This figure fell 4.6 percentage points from 2011.
20.5% ▼ -18.4%
Higher than 84% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 25.1%
- 2016: 24.5%
- 2021: 20.5%
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 Geelong [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa2/203021039/geelong/topic/mobility-location