50.3% ▲ +44.2%
Higher than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 34.9%
- 2016: 43.8%
- 2021: 50.3%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Canterbury · Suburb / Locality
Migration & Movement in Canterbury
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Over half of all residents in Canterbury have moved house in the last five years. This high turnover makes for a dynamic local area where new faces arrive frequently, with a strong flow of people moving in from both within Australia and from overseas.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
About 50.3% of people here changed homes in the last five years, a figure that is far above the New South Wales average of 39.9% and well above the national figure.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Overseas arrivals make up 22.3% of the population, which is much higher than most areas and well above the 14.5% seen across Australia.
22.3% ▲ +26.2%
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 17.7%
- 2016: 21.5%
- 2021: 22.3%
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 Canterbury [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10796/canterbury/topic/mobility-location