54.4% ▼ -16.4%
Higher than 93% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 65.0%
- 2016: 55.0%
- 2021: 54.4%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Merrijig · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Merrijig
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Far more people have moved into Merrijig recently than in most similar areas. Over half the population has changed homes in the last five years, and a very high proportion of residents have arrived from overseas.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 54.4% of people moved here in the last five years, which is far above the figures for Victoria (40.0%) and Australia (40.7%).
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 27.5% of the population, a figure that is far above the national average of 14.5% and the Victorian figure of 15.6%.
27.5% ▼ -12.5%
Higher than 93% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 31.4%
- 2016: 34.7%
- 2021: 27.5%
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 Merrijig [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21667/merrijig/topic/mobility-location