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Perth is Australia's fourth-most-populous city, having overtaken Adelaide in 1984. [97] In June 2023 there was an estimated resident population of 2,309,338 in the Greater Perth area, representing an increase of approximately 3.6% from the 2022 estimate of 2,228,020, the highest growth rate of Australia's capital cities. [1]
Perth Metropolitan Region 104,105 125,114 135,678 6 City of Gosnells: Perth Metropolitan Region 106,585 118,073 126,376 7 City of Cockburn: Perth Metropolitan Region 89,683 104,473 118,091 8 City of Melville: Perth Metropolitan Region 95,700 98,083 103,523 9 City of Canning: Perth Metropolitan Region 85,514
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 ...
From 2001 to 2011, the city's population increased by 346,000, which is comparable to Sydney's 499,000 over the same period despite being only one third the size. As with Melbourne, most population growth was absorbed by the outer suburbs, primarily in the City of Wanneroo, and the southern coastal suburbs (Cockburn, Rockingham and Kwinana). In ...
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.
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 population of Australia is estimated to be 27,560,200 as of 13 December 2024. [10] It is the 54th [11] most populous country in the world and the most populous Oceanian country. Its population is concentrated mainly in urban areas, particularly on the Eastern, South Eastern and Southern seaboards, and is expected to exceed 30 million by ...
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 ...