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Situated within South East Queensland's growth corridor, the Gold Coast is one of Australia's fastest growing large cities, with a 5-year annual average population growth rate to 2015 of 1.8%, compared to 1.5% nationally. [69] Gross Regional Product has risen from A$9.7 billion in 2001, to A$15.6 billion in 2008, a rise of 61 percent. [70]
Main article: List of beaches The Gold Coast consists of 70 kilometres (43 mi) of coastline with some of the most popular surf breaks. Beaches in Australia are in abundance due to the fact that Australia is entirely surrounded by the ocean. Beaches are popular destinations among the country's local population, and travellers alike, as over 85% of Australians live on the coast and most of ...
Bilinga (/ b ə l ɪ n ɡ ə /) is a southern coastal suburb in the City of Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. [2] It is on the border with New South Wales . In the 2021 census , Bilinga had a population of 1,883 people.
Suburbs in the City of Gold Coast Location City of Gold Coast Number 81 suburbs Populations 0 (Southern Moreton Bay Islands) – 31,908 (Southport) Areas 0.6 square kilometres (0.23 sq mi) (Steiglitz) – 100.6 square kilometres (38.8 sq mi) (Numinbah Valley) Subdivisions Neighbourhoods There are eighty-one suburbs in the City of Gold Coast, a local government area in Queensland, Australia ...
The City of Gold Coast is the local government area spanning the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia and surrounding areas. With a population of 606,774, [1] it is the second most populous local government area in the State of Queensland (City of Brisbane being the largest). [1] Its council maintains a staff of over 2,500.
The Gold Coast Highway passes through all the coastal suburbs of the city and is the most direct route to most of the major holiday destinations on the Gold Coast. The Pacific Motorway (M1) interchange is 1.5 km south of the airport just over the NSW border in Tweed Heads West.
The hi-rise boom continued in earnest during the 1970s and by the time the Gold Coast Airport terminal opened in Coolangatta in 1981, the region had become Australia's most well-known family holiday destination and much of the vacant land within 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) of the coast had been developed.
Surfers Paradise (or Surfers colloquially) is a town and the suburban capital of the City of Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. [2] [3] In the 2021 census, the suburb of Surfers Paradise had a population of 26,412 people.