Melbourne has emerged as the quickest rising Capital City of Australia, if we go by the latest study report, based on the most recent statistics, made available by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). According to the report, Melbourne is formally the swiftest rising capital city of the Kangaroo Land even as its populace is up by 2.1%.
Though the number for 2014-2015 is down, to some extent–from the 2.2% registered in the preceding 12 month time-frame–it is still higher, vis-à-vis the next quickest rising capital Darwin where the population went up by 1.9%.
Perth–which has been a major fastest growing capital city since the mid-2000s–grew by 1.6%, down from 1.9% the preceding year, and, at present, sits equal fourth with Brisbane, after Sydney where the general population rose by 1.7%.
According to the ABS director of demography, despite the fact that the growth of Perth lost its pace to its lowest rate since 2004-2005, it was not the lone city to witness weaker augmentation. Of all the capitals, merely Hobart at 0.8%, and Canberra at 1.4%, besides Darwin at 1.9% rose quicker in 2014-2015, in relation to the previous year. In general, the nation’s capital cities accounted for the vast bulk, 83%, of the country’s total populace rise in 2014-2015, with the largest part of growth taking place in the outer suburban and the inner city regions.
The statistics report puts forward that Sydney is well on objective to emerging as the first Australian capital city to hit the five million mark, heading north by 83,300 in 2014-2015 to touch 4.92 million. ABS director of demography reportedly indicated that this amounted to a rise of 1,600 persons every week. And in case this volume of growth goes on in 2015-2016, one would look forward to the population of Sydney to touch the five million mark sometime in 2016.
Even though the populace of Brisbane could be increasing at its most sluggish rate for over 10 years, Queensland boasts of some of the largest rising regional regions in the nation. Even as the population headed north by 1.6% in Brisbane, in the remaining areas of Queensland, it was up by 1%–the quickest growth rate of the entire state regions, in front of rest of New South Wales (NSW) at 0.8% and Victoria at 0.6%.
ABS director of demography reportedly elucidated that weighed against the other states of Down Under; Queensland had a particularly superior percentage, 40%, of its populace increase taking place outside of its capital city. Five out of the leading 10 largest rising regions in Queensland were outside of Greater Brisbane.
The statistics also reveals that Hobart is the lone Australian capital city to register a rising rate of populace growth in every of the previous three years. Although increasing at the most sluggish rate of the entire capital cities at 0.8%, the growth rate of Hobart has been gradually heading north since 2012-2013, and is up from 0.6% during the 2013-2014 period.
