This publication contains estimates of the resident population of areas of Australia as at 30 June for 2011 and 2012.

In 2011, one in seven people in Australia was aged 65 years or over. This paper looks at a range of characteristics of older people including where they lived and the activities they participated in, including paid and voluntary work, unpaid child care and caring for people because of disability, long term illness or problems...

Accurate assessments of the number of people who access goods or services in a particular location are crucial to the equitable allocation of resources and the delivery of services. The paper argues that any attempt to develop a single measure of service populations for all services at a place is likely to meet only limited...

Many older Australians report a desire to age in place. This bulletin explores the relationship between this desire and the housing circumstances of older Australians of different tenure types; that is, those who own their home outright, those paying a mortgage and those who rent their home either privately or through social housing. The bulletin...

This report is about measuring temporary populations, in contrast to the permanent population measured by the Census undertaken by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) every five years.