31.4% ▼ -18.7%
Lower than 67% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 38.6%
- 2016: 69.6%
- 2021: 31.4%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Meeniyan · Urban Centre
Migration & Movement in Meeniyan
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Very few people have moved into Meeniyan recently, making it a stable place to live. Just 31.4% of residents arrived in the last five years, a figure well below the national average.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Movement into the area has slowed, with the share of people who moved in the last five years falling 7.2 percentage points since 2011. At 31.4%, this is much lower than the 40.7% seen across Australia.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
There were no recent arrivals from overseas in 2021, which is far below the Victorian figure of 15.6%. This is a notable drop from 2011, when 7.7% of the population had arrived from abroad recently.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 7.7%
- 2016: 5.9%
- 2021: 0.0%
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 Meeniyan [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL221048/meeniyan/topic/mobility-location