35.8% ▼ -18.3%
Higher than 67% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 43.9%
- 2016: 40.1%
- 2021: 35.8%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Merredin · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Merredin
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
More than a third of people in Merredin have changed their home in the last five years. This reflects a mobile population, though movement into the town is lower than across Western Australia and the rest of the country.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 35.8% of residents moved house in the last five years. This is higher than most similar areas, but remains well below the Western Australian figure of 39.0% and the national figure of 40.7%.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 6.5% of the population, which is around the middle for its level. This is well below both the state figure of 10.6% and the national figure of 14.5%.
6.5% ▼ -81.1%
Lower than 51% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 34.3%
- 2016: 31.4%
- 2021: 6.5%
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 Merredin [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50938/merredin/topic/mobility-location