36.5% ▼ -16.9%
Higher than 58% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 44.0%
- 2016: 40.9%
- 2021: 36.5%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Merredin · Urban Centre
Migration & Movement in Merredin
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
More people have moved into Merredin from overseas than in most similar areas. However, the overall movement of people into the town has slowed down significantly over the last decade.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 36.5% of residents moved here in the last five years, which is well below the national figure of 40.7%. This represents a drop of 7.4 percentage points since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 7.5% of the population, a figure that is higher than most similar areas but well below the 14.5% national average. This proportion has fallen 8.1 percentage points since 2011.
7.5% ▼ -52.1%
Higher than 62% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 15.6%
- 2016: 29.0%
- 2021: 7.5%
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/ucl/UCL515023/merredin/topic/mobility-location