51.3% ▲ +13.5%
Higher than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 45.2%
- 2016: 47.7%
- 2021: 51.3%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Geelong · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Geelong
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Over half of the people in Geelong have changed their address in the last five years, making it a highly mobile place to live. This constant churn of residents is driven by both local moves and a very high number of people arriving from overseas.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
A striking 51.3% of residents moved here within the last five years. This is far above the 40% seen across Victoria and Australia, placing Geelong among the areas with the highest mobility.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 24.2% of the population. This is well above the national figure of 14.5% and the Victorian average of 15.6%.
24.2% ▼ -23.6%
Higher than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 31.6%
- 2016: 32.6%
- 2021: 24.2%
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 Geelong [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20973/geelong/topic/mobility-location