36.2% ▼ -15.9%
Lower than 77% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 43.0%
- 2016: 39.7%
- 2021: 36.2%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Geraldton · Urban Area
Migration & Movement in Geraldton
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Far fewer people have moved into Geraldton recently compared to the rest of the country. Only 36.2% of residents arrived in the last five years, which is well below the national figure. This reflects a broader trend of slowing movement into the area over the last decade.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
The proportion of people moving into the area has fallen by 6.8 percentage points since 2011. At 36.2%, it is much lower than most similar areas and sits a little below the Western Australian figure of 39.0%.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 9.0% of the population, which is well below the Australian figure of 14.5%. This is a sharp drop from 2011, when 22.8% of residents had arrived from overseas recently.
9.0% ▼ -60.6%
Lower than 75% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 22.8%
- 2016: 17.0%
- 2021: 9.0%
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 Geraldton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sua/5006/geraldton/topic/mobility-location