34.2% ▲ +13.5%
Higher than 62% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 30.1%
- 2016: 31.4%
- 2021: 34.2%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Melba · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Melba
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
A small number of new faces join the Melba community each year, with 12.1% of residents having arrived from overseas recently. This shift in population is slow compared to the rest of the territory, suggesting a very stable local neighborhood.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 34.2% of people here moved house in the last five years. While this is higher than in most similar areas, it is far below the 46.1% seen across the ACT.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 12.1% of the population, which is higher than most similar areas. However, this figure is still a little below the national average of 14.5%.
12.1% ▲ +33.1%
Higher than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 9.1%
- 2016: 15.8%
- 2021: 12.1%
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 Melba [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL80094/melba/topic/mobility-location