37.1% ▲ +5.3%
Higher than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 35.2%
- 2016: 27.5%
- 2021: 37.1%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Merton · Suburb / Locality
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
About 37.1% of people in Merton changed their home in the last five years. While this is higher than in most similar areas, it is still a little below the state and national figures.
People who moved in the last five years.
More than a third of residents have moved recently, though this is well below the 40.7% national figure.
37.1% ▲ +5.3%
Higher than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
There were no recent arrivals from overseas in Merton, a figure that is far below the Victorian average 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 Merton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21670/merton/topic/mobility-location