34.8% ▼ -20.4%
Higher than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 43.7%
- 2016: 40.6%
- 2021: 34.8%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Merriwa · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Merriwa
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Roughly 35% of residents have moved house recently, making Merriwa a place where people change addresses more often than in most similar areas. Despite this internal movement, the area has a much lower proportion of recent overseas arrivals compared to the rest of the state and country.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 34.8% of people moved home in the last five years, which is higher than most similar areas. However, this is still well below the 39% seen across Western Australia and the 40.7% national figure.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent arrivals from overseas make up 5.1% of the population. This is around the middle for similar areas, though it remains well below the state figure of 10.6% and the national rate of 14.5%.
5.1% ▼ -64.6%
Lower than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.5%
- 2016: 10.6%
- 2021: 5.1%
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 Merriwa [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50939/merriwa/topic/mobility-location