40.7% ▼ -4.7%
Higher than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 42.6%
- 2016: 38.5%
- 2021: 40.7%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Goonellabah · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Goonellabah
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
A little below the national figure for overseas arrivals, Goonellabah is a place where people frequently change addresses. About 40.7% of residents have moved home in the last five years, which is much higher than most similar areas.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Four in ten people have moved house in the last five years. This rate is about the same as the figures for New South Wales and Australia.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 12.4% of the population, which is higher than most similar areas but a little below the state and national figures.
12.4% ▲ +12.4%
Higher than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.0%
- 2016: 10.7%
- 2021: 12.4%
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/sal/SAL11717/goonellabah/topic/mobility-location