29.5% ▲ +3.6%
Lower than 56% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 28.5%
- 2016: 28.4%
- 2021: 29.5%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Menai · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Menai
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Fewer people are moving in or arriving from abroad in Menai compared to other parts of the country. Only 29.5% of residents have changed homes in the last five years, suggesting a very stable population where people tend to stay put.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Roughly 29.5% of people moved here in the last five years, which is far below the New South Wales figure of 39.9% and the national figure of 40.7%. This is around the middle of the road for similar areas.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up just 3.9% of the population. This is far below the figures for both New South Wales and Australia, which both sit around 14.5% to 14.9%.
3.9% ▼ -42.9%
Lower than 62% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 6.9%
- 2016: 5.7%
- 2021: 3.9%
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 Menai [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL12578/menai/topic/mobility-location