Mitchell married long-term girlfriend, Kristen, in November 2006 and in December 2008 they moved from Perth to Melbourne. As of June 2014, Mitchell and Kristen are the parents of two children, and reside on the Bellarine Peninsula, after residing in the western suburb of Deer Park. Mitchell explained the coastal relocation on social media in late May 2014: "I've left the Melbourne suburbs and moved to the coast so I can re enact all my favourite scenes from the ABC show "Sea Change" and write an album full of earnest beach funk tunes." Speaking on his personal life in 2013, prior to the release of "Familiar Stranger", Mitchell jokingly revealed that "I have zero social life. I have no hobbies, I have nothing else except making music and being a father".