Article
SHARE
Youth in, families out: 6 charts on the inner cities of Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne
Publisher
Cities and towns
Immigration
Urban planning
Population growth
Sydney
Melbourne
Brisbane
Description
In just ten years, the inner city populations of Australia’s biggest state capitals have boomed.
The authors examined Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) census data comparing the population in 2006 and 2016 and found, in Brisbane, the inner-city population grew by 22% in that period. In Sydney, the increase was 33%. And in Melbourne, the population grew by a whopping 78%.
But where is this growth coming from? Like the United States and the United Kingdom, Australia’s major inner cities are “youthifying”.
Read the full article on The Conversation.
Publication Details
Copyright:
The Conversation 2019
License type:
CC BY-ND
Access Rights Type:
open
Post date:
5 Jul 2019
