42.9% ▲ +15.7%
Higher than 70% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 37.1%
- 2016: 33.1%
- 2021: 42.9%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Geelong · Urban Area
Migration & Movement in Geelong
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
More than 42% of people in Geelong have moved house in the last five years. This means the area is seeing more movement than most other places, with a growing number of people arriving since 2011.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 42.9% of residents have changed homes recently, which is a little above the national figure of 40.7%. This trend has climbed since 2011, when the rate was 37.1%.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 14.2% of the population, a figure that is about the same as the Australian average. This proportion has barely changed over the last decade.
14.2% ▼ -2.2%
Higher than 55% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 14.5%
- 2016: 4.6%
- 2021: 14.2%
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/sua/2008/geelong/topic/mobility-location