Along with the first release from the 2021 Census, the ABS have released updated estimates for Australia’s states and territories and revised previous estimates for the last five years. These revisions shed new light on the stories...
An updated (pandemic edition) of this blog has been published. See the 2022 table of Australia’s largest cities here. In this update of our ever-popular blog series, Glenn looks largest urban centres in Australia based on the...
The word unprecedented has been given a good workout over the last year, and yesterday, a quite remarkable reporting update from the ABS gave us good reason to use it again. In the September...
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. Perennially among the...
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...
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...
Glenn unpacks the most recent population projections from the ABS, explaining how projections are different to forecasts, and why there is a role for both in planning. Last week, the ABS released their latest...
As front-line service providers, council public libraries have to respond to Australia’s changing demographic profile. In this blog, Jim shares how some libraries in South Australia are planning to do just that. The results...
You may have heard the news that Australia’s population will pass 25 million people on August 8th. The milestone has been widely reported in the media and is generating a lot of discussion about...
The Age has published an article yesterday citing social research data from Ipsos indicating population growth/overpopulation is much more of a concern in Melbourne than it was just 4 years ago. This attitudinal dataset...
In 1968, a group of 12 thought leaders gathered together at a futurist conference in New York, USA. Their topic? What will the world be like in 2018? Their thoughts, warnings, aspirations and predictions are...
Immigration data can be misleading. Arrival card data simply captures intentions, yet where immigrants plan to go and where they end up settling often varies. The last blog in this series highlighted the large...
Over the weekend, my most favourite movie of all time, Cool Runnings, was on TV. For those of you not familiar with Cool Runnings (shame!), it’s the fictionalised account of the Jamaican bobsled team...
Planners know that migration is a powerful influence on future population – an influence much stronger than natural increase (births and deaths). However, what planners struggle with is quantifying migration in the short and...
What does Australia look like in 2016, and what’s changed? If you’ve used our free tools before, chances are you’ve used a community profile. Usually, we build these tools for individual local government areas,...
We have released our fourth and most significant update to your community profile, with more information from the 2016 Census. This is the update that many of you have been looking forward to –...
