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Urban centres are defined by the Australian Bureau of Statistics to be clusters with a population of 1,000 or higher of urban SA1's. [4] SA1's are areas that subdivide all of Australia, and have a population between 200 and 800 people and an average population size of 400.
The population of Greater Perth at the 2021 Census was 2,192,229. [3] The population was projected to increase to between 4.4 million and 6.6 million by 2061. [2] [4] In 2013, Greater Perth had a population density of 310 inhabitants per square kilometre (800/sq mi), while the rest of WA had 0.2 inhabitants per square kilometre (0.52/sq mi).
The City of Perth is a local government area and body, within the Perth metropolitan area, which is the capital of Western Australia. The local government is commonly known as Perth City Council. The City covers the Perth city centre and surrounding suburbs. The City covers an area of 20.01 square kilometres (8 sq mi) and had an estimated ...
The Indian community includes a substantial number of Parsees who emigrated from Bombay—Perth being the closest Australian city to India—in 2021 those with Indian ancestry accounted for 3.5% of Perth's population [100] Perth is also home to the largest population of Anglo-Burmese in the world; many settled here following the independence of ...
Revenue from tourism is a strong economic driver in many of the smaller population centres outside of Perth, especially in coastal locations. Tourism forms a major part of the Western Australian economy with 833,100 international visitors making up 12.8% of the total international tourism to Australia in the year ending March 2015.
Fremantle is a Western Australian suburb located in Perth at the mouth of the Swan River, and is situated 18 kilometres (11 mi) from the Perth central business district. One of the original settlements of the Swan River Colony established in 1829 is within the area known today as this suburb.
The Perth metropolitan region or the Perth metropolitan area is the administrative area and geographical extent of the Western Australian capital city of Perth and its conurbation. It generally includes the coastal strip from Two Rocks in the north to Singleton in the south, and inland to The Lakes in the east, [ 1 ] but its extent can be ...
The 1955 Plan for the Metropolitan Region, Perth and Fremantle (also known as the Stephenson, or Stephenson-Hepburn Report) was prepared for the Government of Western Australia by Gordon Stephenson and Alistair Hepburn. [1] The plan was the first regional plan for Perth, and provided the basis for land use zoning under the Metropolitan Region ...