45.6% ▲ +11.5%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 40.9%
- 2016: 42.8%
- 2021: 45.6%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Mermaid Waters · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Mermaid Waters
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Nearly half of all residents in Mermaid Waters have moved house in the last five years. This high turnover makes the area much more mobile than most other parts of the country.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 45.6% of people moved here in the last five years, a figure that is well above the national average and much higher than most similar areas.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 14.5% of the population, which is much higher than in most other areas but about the same as the figures for Queensland and Australia.
14.5% ▼ -17.0%
Higher than 77% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 17.5%
- 2016: 12.5%
- 2021: 14.5%
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 Mermaid Waters [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31812/mermaid-waters/topic/mobility-location