Expanding Superdiversity in Australian Cities and Regional Towns

This paper presents a novel methodology to measure “superdiversity” (Vertovec 2007) in urban Australia, focusing on birthplace, language, and religion between 2011 and 2021. It characterises large Australian cities by their levels of superdiversity and examines whether these levels were stable, growing, or diminishing. The study also explores links between levels of diversity and gentrification risk, finding that superdiverse communities are generally stable or growing and not concentrated in areas at high risk of gentrification. The paper concludes with an exploratory discussion of the implications for urban policy in Australia.