46.2% ▲ +5.6%
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 43.7%
- 2016: 41.6%
- 2021: 46.2%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Merimbula · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Merimbula
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Nearly half of all residents in Merimbula have moved here in the last five years, a rate much higher than most similar areas. This makes the town significantly more mobile than the rest of the state and the country.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Around 46.2% of people moved to the area in the last five years, which is well above the New South Wales figure of 39.9% and the national rate of 40.7%.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 7.2% of the population, a figure that sits well below both the state (14.9%) and national (14.5%) averages.
7.2% ▼ -11.6%
Higher than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.1%
- 2016: 10.2%
- 2021: 7.2%
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 Merimbula [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL12586/merimbula/topic/mobility-location