42.8% ▲ +4.6%
Higher than 84% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 40.9%
- 2016: 44.9%
- 2021: 42.8%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Geographe · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Geographe
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
More than four in ten people in Geographe have moved house in the last five years. This makes the area much more mobile than most other similar places. While many people are arriving, the number of new arrivals from overseas is well below the national figure.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 42.8% of residents moved here in the last five years, which is much higher than most areas. This figure is well above the Western Australian average of 39.0%.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 7.2% of the population. This is around the middle for similar areas, but it is well below the 14.5% seen across Australia.
7.2% ▼ -17.6%
Higher than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.7%
- 2016: 12.6%
- 2021: 7.2%
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 Geographe [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50534/geographe/topic/mobility-location