32.3% ▼ -23.1%
Lower than 62% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 42.0%
- 2016: 37.3%
- 2021: 32.3%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Merredin · Council (LGA)
Migration & Movement in Merredin
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Far fewer people move into or arrive in Merredin compared to most other areas. Just 32.3% of residents have changed homes in the last five years, reflecting a community that is significantly more stable than the state and national averages.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 32.3% of people moved home in the last five years, which is well below the Western Australian figure of 39.0%. This level of movement has dropped 9.7 percentage points since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up only 5.8% of the population, a figure well below the Australian average of 14.5%. This has seen a sharp decline of 27 percentage points since 2011.
5.8% ▼ -82.2%
Lower than 80% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 32.3%
- 2016: 28.4%
- 2021: 5.8%
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 Merredin [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA55460/merredin/topic/mobility-location