35.5% ▲ +2.9%
Higher than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 34.5%
- 2016: 30.8%
- 2021: 35.5%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Geilston Bay · Suburb / Locality
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
More people have moved into Geilston Bay recently than in most similar areas. While over a third of residents have changed homes in the last five years, the area is particularly welcoming to newcomers from abroad.
People who moved in the last five years.
About 35.5% of people here moved house in the last five years, a figure that is higher than most similar areas but well below the national rate of 40.7%.
35.5% ▲ +2.9%
Higher than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Newcomers from overseas make up 17.4% of the population, which is much higher than in most similar areas and a little above the Australian figure of 14.5%.
17.4% ▲ +25.0%
Higher than 84% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of overseas-born residents who arrived in Australia in the five years before the census.
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Migration & Movement in Geilston Bay [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60224/geilston-bay/topic/mobility-location