27.4% ▼ -4.3%
Lower than 63% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 28.6%
- 2016: 27.7%
- 2021: 27.4%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Meadow Heights · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Meadow Heights
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Far fewer people have moved into Meadow Heights recently compared to the rest of the country. Only 27.4% of residents arrived in the last five years, which is a gap of 13 percentage points below the national figure. This suggests a very stable population where most people have lived for a long time.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Just 27.4% of residents moved house in the last five years. This is lower than most areas and far below the 40% seen across Victoria.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 10.9% of the population. While this is higher than most similar areas, it remains well below the Victorian figure of 15.6%.
10.9% ▼ -27.8%
Higher than 67% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 15.1%
- 2016: 16.7%
- 2021: 10.9%
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 Meadow Heights [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21635/meadow-heights/topic/mobility-location