By - glenn the census expert
Australia’s population growth steady in March, despite border closures
Glenn looks into the latest population data for the March quarter from the ABS, which reveals that, even before Australia had felt the full brunt of border closures and the other impacts of COVID-19, there were some interesting...
JobSeeker data reveals impact of Victoria's lockdown
While Victoria’s lockdown has put that state in the headlines, JobSeeker data gives us very useful insights to where COVID-19 has most impacted places, and the demographic and economic conditions that have made...
Salisbury – the role of affordable housing in a family area
In today’s blog, Glenn uses a new housing monitor that was recently commissioned by the City of Salisbury to show you who lives in that part of Northern Adelaide, how patterns in housing tenure are changing in...
Why is COVID-19 affecting so many healthcare workers?
For those who can still bear to follow the news, you might have heard about the increasing number of healthcare workers contracting COVID-19. On the surface, this may seem a sad inevitability given their close...
Australia’s Consumer Price Index records its greatest fall in history
The Consumer Price Index (CPI) is a key measure of inflation in Australia. The latest CPI update showed inflation has turned negative for only the third time since the index was started in 1948. But does this...
The demographic link between Mitchell Shire and Metropolitan Melbourne
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 northern parts of...
Melbourne in lockdown – what’s in a boundary?
When ‘Melbourne and Mitchell Shire’ went back into lockdown last week, it made the question of ‘where-you-draw-the-boundary-on-a-place’ an issue of personal interest to many people. As people who tell stories...
The challenges of COVID-19 in public housing towers
The ‘hard lockdown’ of public housing towers in Melbourne last weekend is one of the most drastic measures we’ve seen to date to curb the spread of COVID-19 in Australia. Glenn looks at the demographic profile...
Australia’s population growth turns down even before COVID-19
In the latest population figures from the ABS, we see national population growth trending slightly downward. As these figures are for the quarter ending December 2019, they pre-date the impacts of COVID-19 in...
Using JobSeeker data to understand changing disadvantage in a COVID-19 world
In our latest enhanceent to our community profiles (profile.id), we have recently launched a new page which looks at JobSeeker recipients within your Local Government Area. In this article, I demonstrate how to...
Chart: what happens to statistics when you close the borders
Last week, the ABS unsentimentally released this month’s Overseas arrivals and departures figures, revealing the full extent of one of the most significant demographic events to hit Australia in a generation: a...
Federal Government’s “HomeBuilder” scheme – where will the money go?
Glenn provides some context for today’s announcement of the Federal Government’s Homebuilder scheme: What contribution does construction, especially residential construction, make to the Australian economy?...
Working from home – the new reality, or business as usual?
In this article, Glenn takes a look at the much-discussed phenomenon of working from home. While COVID-19’s long-term impact on our working lives is yet to be seen, the 2016 Census provides an important...
Unemployment rises to 6.2%. But less than expected.
The ABS releases Labour Force data every month, from its largest ongoing survey, of around 25,000 households each month. The April 2020 release, on May 14th, 2020 was the most closely watched for some time, as...
The 50 largest cities and towns in Australia, by population | 2020 update
In this 2020 update of the most popular series of blogs on our website, Glenn goes through the largest urban centres in Australia and provides a population update to June 2019.
Migration within Australia – strongest out of Sydney
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 population updates for...
Can I still use regular statistical releases in a Covid-19 world?
Amid the economic and demographic uncertainty caused by the spread of COVID-19, we continue to receive statistical updates and releases from the ABS and other sources. Many people are wondering which of these...
How many deaths are there in Australia each year?
There’s more than enough news around at the moment to get you down, however, as demographers, we look to understand deaths and the death rate as an important part of the demographic story of any place.
Can you run a Census in a pandemic?
The 2021 Census in Australia could be our most important ever, as it can show the effect of all the changes taking place in Australia right now, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. We run a Census every 5...
Which parts of Australia are experiencing population decline?
In an era of almost unprecedented population change in Australia, there was one local government area in Australia that managed to maintain a stable population of exactly 92,888 people in the year to June 2019....
Australia’s fastest growing areas are mostly in our capital cities
Glenn shares the highlights from the recent release of new population figures for local areas, reviewing how the population of our Capital Cities and fastest-growing Local Government Areas changed in the year...
