29.1% —
Lower than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 23.2%
- 2021: 29.1%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Merricks · Suburb / Locality
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
A very stable population defines Merricks, where few people move in or out of the area. Only 29.1% of residents have changed homes in the last five years, which is far below the national figure.
People who moved in the last five years.
The proportion of people who moved in the last five years is far below the 40.7% seen across Australia. This rate is also far below Victoria's 40.0%, sitting around the middle for similar areas.
29.1% —
Lower than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Overseas arrivals are very rare here, with 0.0% of the population arriving from another country recently. This is far below both the national figure of 14.5% and the Victorian rate of 15.6%.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of overseas-born residents who arrived in Australia in the five years before the census.
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Migration & Movement in Merricks [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21662/merricks/topic/mobility-location