The latest figures on Australia’s population growth are out, and overseas migration remains the main driver. Glenn Capuano breaks down the latest population story for the nation, comparing the different drivers across the states and...
The ABS have now released a full 12 months of COVID-affected population-growth data. Victoria’s population is declining sharply, Queensland is booming. Glenn provides a state-by-state analysis of the contributing factors. The ABS have just...
Part of our ongoing monitoring of new population data, this blog sees Glenn unpack the December 2020 quarter release, focusing on how natural increase, overseas migration and interstate migration combine to tell different stories of...
With international migration on hold, population pundits are paying close attention to internal migration around Australia. Glenn takes a look at the trends in the latest data and showcases how to tell this story...
In this latest blog in our series on new migration data, Glenn explores the figures from the December 2020 quarter and discusses the emerging trends for people moving around Australia. The ABS now release broad-level (Capital...
While the inclusion of Mitchell Shire in the lockdown of Melbourne may have seemed odd for many of us, Glenn shares a demographer’s view of the link between that Shire’s southern towns and the...
This is the third blog on the Regional Population Growth 2018-19, which was released in late March by the ABS. This publication looks at population in June 2019, and is the main source of...
We know our cities are a honeypot for young people, with jobs, entertainment.. and other young people. But when they hit the age at which their parents moved out to the ‘burbs, has the...
We’ve recently welcomed New Zealand’s Ashburton District to our list of local councils who make their community profiles available to the general public. In this post, Penny digs a little deeper into the demographic...
Yesterday the ABS released population estimates for the December 2018 quarter. The figures tell us that Australia continues to grow steadily, with Victoria remaining the fastest growing state in the country. But the big story...
Australia’s population is growing, but what is driving that growth? Natural increase, or the balance of births and deaths in a given area, is one cause of population change. In this blog, Glenn looks...
One of the more powerful aspects of Census data is the ability to analyse population characteristics at small areas of geography. It never ceases to amaze me that two neighbouring suburbs can have very...
While births and deaths have an influence on local population characteristics, migration is by far the most powerful force in population change. A while ago I wrote a blog investigating internal migration, noting that...
The ABS has a new dataset which is great for analyzing where people are moving across Australia. It’s called “RIME”, or the Regional Internal Migration Estimates. This is still experimental, but it’s being produced...
New Zealand has arguably been in a trend of ageing for close to a century. All you have to do is look at the steady decline of birth rates and the increase in life...
We at .id were saddened to learn of the recent passing of Professor Graeme Hugo. There aren’t many people in Australia’s demographic community who haven’t been influenced by his works – he was a prolific...
The National Demographic Indicators series has an indicator for population who “Changed address in the last 5 years”. Of course some people change address multiple times in that period, but this indicator from Census...
The truth is: Melbourne’s weather is killing me. I cycle more than five times a week (to and from work/university/etc.) and maybe it is my bad luck or deadly attractiveness to rain clouds, it...
Recently the National Seachange Taskforce released a report about the impact of temporary populations in coastal areas. Central to the report was a survey of non-resident ratepayers, and whether they intend to move to...
