34.2% ▲ +13.4%
Lower than 66% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 30.2%
- 2016: 31.4%
- 2021: 34.2%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Melba · Statistical Area 2 (SA2)
Migration & Movement in Melba
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Far fewer people have moved into Melba recently compared to most other areas. Only 34.2% of residents arrived in the last five years, which is well below the national figure. This suggests a very stable local population where most people have lived for a long time.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
The proportion of people who moved in the last five years is far below the ACT average of 46.1%. While this figure rose 4.1 percentage points since 2011, it remains much lower than most similar areas.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 12.1% of the population, which is a little below the Australian average. This figure has risen slightly since 2011 and sits around the middle for similar areas.
12.1% ▲ +30.2%
Higher than 57% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 9.3%
- 2016: 15.8%
- 2021: 12.1%
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 Melba [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa2/801011022/melba/topic/mobility-location