How COVID-19 will impact the future population of rural areas
Accounting for around 11% of Australia’s population, rural areas cover nearly 60% of Australia’s land mass and produce the majority of its agriculture and primary industries. As such the importance of how COVID-19 may impact the...
Changes to topics in the 2021 Census
After a long consultation and investigation period, the ABS has confirmed changes to the questions that will be asked in the upcoming Australian Census. Glenn Capuano, our resident Census expert, explores the...
Coober Pedy – a look at the underground town’s Community Profile
.id’s Community Profile (profile.id) is not just for larger councils. In recent years a number of small rural communities have joined the profile.id community, for the flexibility it has in demonstrating the...
ABS looks to administrative data to fill the Census gaps
The Census is a massive, complicated undertaking. In this blog, Glenn takes a look at how the ABS has been exploring the use of administrative data to improve the Census response rate and the Census count, and...
Exodus from Melbourne to the regions during the pandemic
How will the COVID-19 pandemic and the rise of working from home affect where people choose to live? Does everyone want a treechange? Have people been moving out of Melbourne during lockdown? The ABS has...
How will COVID-19 impact future population growth in suburban areas?
Today’s blog is a masterclass in storytelling with data. In this latest installment of our series unpacking the likely impact of COVID-19 on different types of places in Australia, Richard Thornton turns his...
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...
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...
How COVID-19 will impact the future population of Growth Areas
Today Andrew Rossiter looks at the impacts of COVID-19 on Growth Areas. Of the different types of places we’re examining in this series, these Local Government Areas have seen the most population growth and...
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...
How COVID-19 will impact the future population of Peri-urban areas
Today’s blog is the latest in a series from our local government forecasting team, looking at the impacts of COVID-19 on different ‘types’ of places in Australia. In this latest piece, Andrew Rossiter looks at...
Broadcasting to hard-to-reach communities in New Zealand
With newly-updated 2018 Census data now available in our New Zealand Community profiles and Social atlas tools, Territorial Authorities in New Zealand have an opportunity to use up-to-date information about the...
How COVID-19 will impact the future population of Major Regional Cities
In this series, our local government forecasting team look at the impact of COVID-19 on different ‘types’ of places in Australia, starting today with ‘Major regional cities’. This analysis accompanies the...
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...
Understanding the impact of Covid-19 on population forecasts
If you have visited our publicly accessible population forecasts recently, you may have wondered if these forecasts account for the impacts of COVID-19. Andrew Rossiter, one of our forecasters and consultants,...
Hotspots – Why statistical significance is important when identifying clusters
In the time of Covid-19, the idea of ‘clusters’ or ‘hotspots’ has become part of our daily conversation, but this identification of high-concentrations of people who share a given characteristic has always been...
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...
Map: How many 3-bedroom homes are occupied by lone persons in your area?
In today’s blog, Georgia uses the example of ‘lone persons living in 3 bedroom homes’ to demonstrate a mismatch between household types and dwellings. We’re writing about this today because this information is...
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...
Demographic characteristics of JobSeeker hotspots
A few parts of Australia have emerged as ‘hotspots’ for the uptake of JobSeeker payments in recent months. Nenad investigates these areas to see what demographic and economic characteristics make them...
