Your occupation
Monthly Flows — net change in the EOI pool
A trend line tells you the level; this view tells you the movement. Each bar is one month’s net change in an occupation’s pool, so a run of bars above the axis is sustained build-up and a run below it is sustained clearing.
What this view measures
Each bar is this month’s count minus last month’s, for one occupation, on the visa and status you selected. Above the axis the pool grew; below it, the pool shrank.
Reading the chart
Look for runs rather than single bars. Three or four consecutive positive months is a pattern worth talking about; one large bar between quiet ones is usually a batch effect or a revision.
Net change hides two-way traffic. A month where 300 EOIs arrived and 280 left looks almost identical to a month where nothing happened at all.
What the figure represents
Sustained growth means the pool is accumulating faster than it clears, which is a crowding signal. Sustained shrinking means the opposite, but not necessarily because of invitations — a cohort reaching the two-year limit produces the same shape.
In the dashboard
Keep the visa locked and the status on submitted, then add one or two occupations. This view is at its most readable with a single occupation and its most misleading with many.
Monthly Flows is open in the guest trial alongside Occupation Trends, so you can read level and movement for the same occupation without an account.
The guest trial covers 189 and 190 plus five occupations for this view. Subclass 491 asks you to sign in.
For applicants
This is the view that answers “is it getting worse?” more honestly than a trend line, because it strips out the level and shows only the direction of travel.
For migration professionals
Flows make a cleaner client slide than levels when the story is about momentum. Say “net change” explicitly, or the bars get read as invitation counts.
Limits of this view
It cannot show arrivals and departures separately, cannot attribute a fall to invitations, and inherits any revision made to the two months it compares.
Common questions
Does a big negative bar mean lots of invitations?
Not on its own. Expiry and withdrawals reduce a pool as well, and this view cannot tell them apart. Invite Activity is the view that looks at the invited side directly.
Why is the first month blank?
There is no previous month to compare it against, so no net change can be calculated.