Population density
Data portal
Visualising NSW electorates: population growth
Population growth and density data is presented in map and table form for all 93 NSW electorates. The Parliamentary Research Service has also published Trends in NSW population growth, which examines long term population trends in NSW.
Report
Planning liveable cities: a place-based approach to sequencing infrastructure and growth
This paper provides advice to governments, industry, and the community on how to enable best-practice sequencing. It calls for an overhaul of the way new housing and infrastructure in our largest cities is delivered, proposing changes to current planning systems, governance frameworks, and funding arrangements to better manage Australia's rapid population growth.
Guide
Population and migration statistics in Australia
This guide provides an overview of the drivers of Australia’s growing population and an introduction to the key concepts and terminology used.
Journal article
Australia should continue its current comprehensive population policy – at least for the next decade
Does the absence of precise targets for total population and for the rate of population growth mean that Australia does not have a population policy? That seems to be the popular perception based on the current debate about population, and no less an authority than the Productivity Commission has recently called for a population policy...
Report
Remarkably adaptive: Australian cities in a time of growth
Australia’s population is growing rapidly. The major cities of Sydney and Melbourne, in particular, are booming. Many people are asking whether the growth rates of the past decade are sustainable, or whether Australia has reached a tipping point where congestion and other downsides of growth outweigh the upsides of a more dynamic economy and vibrant...