First Australian 2011 Census results – how have we changed?
The first release of Australian 2011 Census results was published today. We celebrated with champagne and then crowded around computers as the results were released. Here is a quick summary of some of the headline numbers that caught...
Australian 2011 Census-based population estimates are out. What do they reveal?
While Australia’s population continues to grow, it is at a slower pace than the highs recorded a few years ago. In a precursor to the release of 2011 Census data tomorrow, the ABS today released the quarterly...
Register here for Australian 2011 Census updates
Many people are eagerly awaiting the first release of Australian 2011 Census results. Us and our clients more than most! As a licensed intermediary of ABS Census data, we take the raw Census data and convert it...
Australian Census 2011 predictions – Crystal Ball gazing revisited
The Australian Census 2011 results are imminent, so I thought it would be worth revisiting some of the predictions I made for the Census results, around the time the Census was actually being collected. I...
The population of the Gold Coast - a story of spectacular growth
Until the 1960s, the Gold Coast was just a string of sleepy coastal villages. The Gold Coast population explosion that has occurred since that time is one of the amazing stories in Australian demographics, as...
Is Perth the most remote city in the world?
When preparing my last blog “Perth’s population – a story of economic boom”, I initially made a statement which I’ve long believed, though I forgot where I heard it. That is the “fact” that Perth is the most...
Population of Brisbane – a story of coastal migration
Brisbane is Australia’s third-largest city, and is at the centre of a massive population boom in recent years occurring in the south-eastern corner of the Sunshine State. However, Queensland is unusual among...
How do I get information out of .id’s websites?
One of the questions we get asked most often at .id training sessions is how to get the data, charts and text out of the .id websites and into your working documents and presentations. This blog will step you...
Perth’s population – a story of economic boom
Perth is Australia’s 4th largest city, and contains the bulk of Western Australia’s population. Perth is a very remote city, at over 2,000km from Adelaide and over 3,000km from the east coast, and in many ways...
When will Sydney run out of greenfield land?
.id has undertaken a set of highly detailed population forecast for New South Wales and the ACT over the last 12 months. This work has given us a great insight into some of the planning challenges for urban...
New South Wales – a population forecasting journey
The pundits enjoy talking about Queensland and Western Australia for their population and employment growth potential, but for sheer scale and size, New South Wales is the winner. We have had the ‘pleasure’ of...
Wanganui's baby blues
A case study of the impacts of service delivery on population outcomes.
Can housing diversity be achieved in new growth areas?
I recently wrote a blog where I made the point that the largest group attracted to greenfield developments in growth areas were younger families with parents typically aged 20-34 years. This prompted queries...
The Census drove the creation of the modern computer
Necessity, they say, is the mother of invention. This has never been more true than in the case of the US Census of the late 1800’s, which in many ways set the wheels in motion for the development of the modern...
Scrap the Census? You have to be kidding, right?
I was recently forwarded an article published on the BBC website, which outlined calls by the Conservative Government in the UK to scrap the Census in its current format. The premise of their argument is that...
Generations X and Y – what’s in a letter?
In a previous article I looked at the baby boomers, those born in the post-war baby boom, and discovered that it actually started well before the end of World War II. This article looks at the generations which...
Sydney’s population – a story of consolidation
Sydney, Australia’s largest city and oldest European settlement, is also known as Australia’s world city, and the “city of cities”. It is the entry point of most new migrants to Australia, has the busiest...
Making sense of population counts
When people ask – “How many people live in Statsville?” they expect a straight forward, unambiguous answer. If only it were that simple! Believe it or not there are several different ways to count people in...
What is your consultation delivering?
Many New Zealand councils are still up to their armpits in the 2012 Long Term Plan (LTP) consultation. It’s a huge undertaking and one of the most important consultation tasks conducted by councils. I talked a...
Don’t put air-conditioning in the car – control the temperature of the road instead….!
It’s fun, but also interesting and entertaining to look at what the futurists and planners had in mind for the future of transport development back in the late 50’s.
Melbourne’s population – a story of growth
This blog has been superseded with an updated version – Melbourne’s population growth – trends after the Census. Melbourne, the second-largest city in Australia, has been rapidly growing for some time. This...
