36.7% ▲ +15.5%
Lower than 64% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 31.8%
- 2016: 36.3%
- 2021: 36.7%
Share of people living at a different address than five years earlier.
Canterbury · State Electorate
Migration & Movement in Canterbury
How people move — recent moves within Australia and arrivals from overseas.
Well below the national figure, only 36.7% of people in Canterbury have moved home in the last five years. This stability exists alongside a growing number of international arrivals, with 15.1% of the population arriving from overseas recently.
Moving home
People who moved in the last five years.
Few people have changed homes here recently, with 36.7% moving in the last five years. This is well below the figures for both New South Wales and Australia, though the proportion has risen by 4.9 points since 2011.
Arrivals from overseas
Overseas-born residents who arrived recently.
Recent overseas arrivals make up 15.1% of the population, which is higher than in most similar areas. This figure is about the same as the state and national levels, but it has risen 3.7 points since 2011.
15.1% ▲ +32.5%
Higher than 64% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 11.4%
- 2016: 16.5%
- 2021: 15.1%
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 Canterbury [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED10015/canterbury/topic/mobility-location