What is Australia’s most typical suburb?

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2 Responses

  1. Tony says:

    This is of course taking a look at what is ‘average’ from a particular standpoint. I live in Nunawading, Vic, one of the ‘average’ suburbs. However there are key factors beyond academic achievement and jobs between all these places. For instance, what about distance for commuting, use of public transport, number of pets owned, average height of street trees. I think all the ‘average’ suburbs, for all their strict demographic sameness, are actually very different from each other. But you have to start somewhere!

    • Hi Tony – absolutely – I’ve just picked 8 indicators which are available in the Census. You could pick from a huge number more indicators from the Census and plenty of other things which are not in the Census and probably get different results. It was an interesting exercise though, and living not far from Nunawading myself, I concur that while average in many ways it is quite different from others on the list!

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