31.5% ▲ +0.8%
Higher than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 31.3%
- 2016: 22.9%
- 2021: 31.5%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Merrigum · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Merrigum
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
More people have recently arrived from overseas in Merrigum than in most similar areas. While 20.5% of the population arrived from abroad recently, the local community is generally more settled than the rest of the country.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Movement into the area is low, with 31.5% of people moving house in the last five years. This is well below the Victorian figure of 40.0% and the national rate of 40.7%.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
The proportion of recent overseas arrivals is much higher than in most areas. At 20.5%, this is well above both the national figure of 14.5% and the state's 15.6%.
20.5% ▲ +46.6%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.0%
- 2016: 18.3%
- 2021: 20.5%
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 Merrigum [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21665/merrigum/topic/mobility-location