30.3% ▼ -2.3%
Lower than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 31.0%
- 2016: 29.2%
- 2021: 30.3%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Merewether Heights · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Merewether Heights
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Fewer people move in and out of Merewether Heights compared to most of the country, creating a very stable residential feel. Only 30.3% of residents have changed homes in the last five years, which is far below the national figure.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 30.3% of people here moved in the last five years, a rate well below both the New South Wales figure of 39.9% and the Australian average of 40.7%.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 4.9% of the population, which is well below the national figure of 14.5% and the state average of 14.9%.
4.9% ▼ -76.1%
Lower than 58% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 20.5%
- 2016: 13.8%
- 2021: 4.9%
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 Merewether Heights [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL12585/merewether-heights/topic/mobility-location