This blog is the third in our series on housing consumption patterns, looking at how our older population would prefer to live and their housing aspirations. In this blog we keep the theme going,...
This blog follows on from one Georgia wrote a few weeks ago, looking at how young adults would prefer to live and their housing aspirations. In this blog we keep the theme going, and...
We would like to acknowledge the difficult conditions many of our friends in bushfire affected areas have faced over the holiday period and the considerable hardship and stress the fires have caused. We hope conditions...
With newly-released local area economic data now in our local area economic profiles (economy.id), Keenan Jackson provides some commentary and insights to help you understand what factors influenced the performance of your local economy in 2018/19,...
I think everyone has been shocked and saddened by the terrible bushfires we’ve seen around Australia for the past few months, and particularly the horrific conditions in New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia...
So the headline is, in 2018, Australia’s birth rate fell to an all-time low of 1.740 babies per female of childbearing age. What is the birth rate? The birth rate (or technically, Total Fertility...
Something that Councils always ask about is what type of housing do people really want to live in, as opposed to what they are living in? There is often the suspicion that people are...
Something remarkable has happened in the last few years, for keen observers of population growth in Australia. Our smallest state, Tasmania, is growing again! In fact, in the last 2 years, the Apple Isle has...
In 2019, there were a few challenges that we repeatedly saw local councils grappling with as an impediment to economic development in their area. This is the first in a four-part series where our...
New population growth data from the ABS reveal that while the national story of population growth remains steady at 1.5%, there are some trends worth noting within our states and territories. In the year...
In today’s blog, Georgia takes a look at the change in median weekly rental costs in South Australia and Victoria. She discovers things are not always as the media would have you believe. If...
If you’ve recently been looking at the population (ERP) for your Territorial Authority, you may have noticed some strange patterns in the charts. In this piece, Penny explains why. At this point in the rollout of...
If you’re involved with planning or service delivery in the Northern Territory, or you work with indigenous communities anywhere else in the country, there is an amazing new resource now available to you. A...
With our new online housing product housing.id almost 1 year old, we’ve had the chance to work with a number of councils to improve the tool to help them achieve their goals. One of those...
Last week, Glenn wrote about the positive trajectory of life expectancy in Australia, following the ABS’ release of updated Life tables. In today’s blog, he shares a more sobering story of inequality, in a piece...
The 2018 Census has been unique in many ways. Issues with under-counts resulted in the deployment of new methods to source and validate data. One of the core approaches was the use of administrative...
Recently the ABS released a brand new set of Life Tables, covering the 2016-2018 period. This may sound like some dull statistical publication, only of interest to boffins (and I do count myself as...
We’ve written a lot about housing stress recently, and understanding the numbers of households spending too much on their mortgage and rental payments. There are a number of drivers of housing stress, one of...
The federal government has just opened round four of the Building Better Regions Fund. $200 million of funding is now available and is aimed at helping drought-affected communities. One of the key challenges we’ve...
Later this month I’ll be attending the National Growth Areas Alliance 2019 Congress, along with my fellow demographers Glenn and Nenad. In preparation, we’ve been looking at some interesting stories from growth areas across...
Overseas migration has always played a key role in Western Australia’s population, but the past decade has seen some significant changes. In today’s post, Glenn takes a deep dive into the changing migration patterns in...
