QuickStats About Population Mobility looks at where people (including overseas visitors) were on census night, who is most and least likely to move their usual residence, and population movements between areas (or internal migration) in the five years prior to the 2006 Census. Population mobility is just one factor that contributes to population change – external migration and births and deaths also shape our changing population.
Information in this QuickStats is based on New Zealand's 2006 Census of Population and Dwellings, held on 7 March 2006.