How fast is your Canberra suburb growing?

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Depending on where you live in Canberra, your suburb could be set to boom, jump, stagnate or even shrink.

The ACT Government's latest population projections indicate 421,839 people will call Canberra home by the next decade, a jump of about 25,000 from July last year.

Much of that growth will be concentrated in Canberra's north and south-west.

The Gungahlin region will grow by almost 19 per cent and the Cotter-Namadgi district — taking in new suburbs including Molonglo and Denman Prospect — will boom by a staggering 139 per cent.

But some older suburbs and regions will actually shrink.

The population in Weston Creek will fall by 6.7 per cent, while 3 per cent of Tuggeranong residents will leave the area.

By age, the number of Canberrans 65-plus will increase faster than any other age group, jumping 15 per cent by 2020.

But the ACT will remain a relatively young city, with more than twice as many 20 to 35-year-olds than those over the age of 65.

The number of 24 to 26-year-olds will shrink an average of 7 per cent, while 73-year-olds will spike by almost 52 per cent.

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Suburb 2016 2020 Change Aranda 2,500 2,502 0.08% Belconnen 6,189 6,975 12.70% Bruce 7,614 8,336 9.48% Charnwood 3,040 3,012 -0.92% Cook 2,852 2,733 -4.17% Dunlop 7,354 7,515 2.19% Evatt 5,349 5,289 -1.12% Florey 5,070 4,916 -3.04% Flynn 3,498 3,380 -3.37% Fraser 2,133 2,119 -0.66% Giralang 3,314 3,342 0.84% Gooromon 4 4 0.00% Hawker 2,849 2,808 -1.44% Higgins 3,020 2,895 -4.14% Holt 4,799 4,919 2.50% Kaleen 7,525 7,447 -1.04% Latham 3,479 3,229 -7.19% Lawson 398 2,141 437.94% Macgregor 6,545 6,912 5.61% Macquarie 2,697 2,889 7.12% McKellar 2,869 2,878 0.31% Melba 3,198 3,081 -3.66% Page 2,912 2,895 -0.58% Scullin 2,845 2,825 -0.70% Spence 2,591 2,493 -3.78% Weetangera 2,600 2,505 -3.65% TOTAL - BELCONNEN 97,244 100,040 2.88% ACT South West 5,041 11,091 120.02% Molonglo 376 1,903 406.12% Namadgi 31 31 0.00% TOTAL - COTTER-NAMADGI 5,448 13,025 139.08% ACT East 868 863 -0.58% Hume 320 320 0.00% Kowen 40 40 0.00% Majura 253 253 0.00% TOTAL - FYSHWICK-PIALLIGO-HUME 1,481 1,476 -0.34% Amaroo 5,849 6,105 4.38% Bonner 5,215 6,091 16.80% Casey 4,674 6,097 30.45% Crace 3,980 5,217 31.08% Forde 4,368 5,099 16.74% Franklin 6,355 7,598 19.56% Gungahlin Town Centre 5,862 5,927 1.11% Gungahlin East 325 1,674 415.08% Gungahlin West 1,413 5,569 294.13% Hall 339 339 0.00% Harrison 8,725 9,841 12.79% Mitchell 9 9 0.00% Ngunnawal 10,342 11,483 11.03% Nicholls 6,802 6,622 -2.65% Palmerston 5,668 5,496 -3.03% TOTAL - GUNGAHLIN 69,926 83,167 18.94% Acton 2,277 2,488 9.27% Ainslie 5,313 5,363 0.94% Braddon 5,842 6,552 12.15% Campbell 5,610 6,294 12.19% Civic 3,860 4,431 14.79% Dickson 2,284 2,584 13.13% Downer 3,667 3,828 4.39% Hackett 2,898 2,802 -3.31% Lyneham 4,965 5,283 6.40% O'Connor 5,660 5,818 2.79% Reid 1,792 1,939 8.20% Turner 4,053 4,373 7.90% Watson 6,129 6,947 13.35% TOTAL - NORTH CANBERRA 54,350 58,702 8.01% Deakin 2,749 2,665 -3.06% Forrest 1,643 1,689 2.80% Griffith 4,255 4,474 5.15% Kingston 5,535 6,363 14.96% Lake Burley Griffin 0 0 0.00% Narrabundah 6,095 6,463 6.04% Parkes/Barton 0 0 0.00% Red Hill 3,279 3,210 -2.10% Yarralumla 2,869 2,754 -4.01% TOTAL - SOUTH CANBERRA 26,425 27,618 4.51% Banks 4,924 4,779 -2.94% Bonython 3,747 3,547 -5.34% Calwell 5,643 5,489 -2.73% Chisholm 5,168 5,069 -1.92% Conder 5,088 4,874 -4.21% Fadden 3,034 2,948 -2.83% Gilmore 2,747 2,646 -3.68% Gordon 7,668 7,507 -2.10% Gowrie 2,987 2,905 -2.75% Greenway 1,818 2,179 19.86% Isabella Plains 4,338 4,309 -0.67% Kambah 15,019 14,410 -4.05% Macarthur 1,440 1,385 -3.82% Monash 5,363 5,179 -3.43% Mount Taylor 3 3 0.00% Oxley 1,737 1,682 -3.17% Richardson 2,967 2,820 -4.95% Theodore 3,871 3,691 -4.65% Tuggeranong 31 31 0.00% Wanniassa 7,545 7,196 -4.63% TOTAL - TUGGERANONG 85,138 82,649 -2.92% Chapman 2,640 2,457 -6.93% Duffy 3,155 2,867 -9.13% Fisher 2,945 2,752 -6.55% Holder 2,600 2,379 -8.50% Rivett 2,955 2,696 -8.76% Stirling 2,024 1,876 -7.31% Waramanga 2,442 2,173 -11.02% Weston 3,332 3,411 2.37% TOTAL - WESTON CREEK 22,093 20,611 -6.71% Chifley 2,720 2,762 1.54% Curtin 5,322 5,275 -0.88% Farrer 3,433 3,388 -1.31% Garran 3,405 3,454 1.44% Hughes 2,990 2,893 -3.24% Isaacs 2,351 2,272 -3.36% Lyons 3,122 3,389 8.55% Mawson 3,067 3,019 -1.57% O'Malley 965 1,000 3.63% Pearce 2,498 2,371 -5.08% Phillip 2,378 2,654 11.61% Torrens 2,195 2,074 -5.51% TOTAL - WODEN VALLEY 34,446 34,551 0.30% TOTAL - ACT 396,551 421,839 6.38%

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