The City of Australia
If Australia’s population lived in one city, how large would that city be if it were as dense as… Melbourne? …Hobart? What if it had the same population density as Darwin? How far would that...
Tagged: population density
Population densities of Australian capital cities – Adelaide, Perth and Brisbane
In the previous blog, I described in more detail as to why population density analysis is important. This entry continues on from that and describes the population densities in Greater Adelaide, Greater Perth and Greater...
Population densities of Australian capital cities
How dense are we? Population densities have traditionally provided information on the distribution of populations across space. By assessing how dense an area is in terms of population, we can determine possible pressures on...
Is Melbourne as dense as Hong Kong?
Recently The Age and various news outlets reported on a study done last year as part of a Churchill Fellowship by a Melbourne City Council staffer. The report was promoted in the television media...
Australian Population Grid – a new view of population density
The ABS has a habit of releasing interesting things just before Christmas. In 2014, they released a brand new view of Australian population density, enabling mapping which shows our population distribution in better detail...
How dense is high density?
The bare mention of the word “density” in relation to how Australian cities are changing is inevitably provocative. After all, the post war period of suburban development has been characterised by low density housing, and from...
How urbanised is Australia’s population?
In my last blog, I looked at one measure of the urban nature of the population – how centralised each state’s population is around the capital city and surrounds. But there is another, equally...
Population Density – just how much room do you need?
Look at any list of population density by country, and you’ll be sure to find Australia pretty close to the bottom. Often called the “island continent”, Australia, as a country, has a population density...
