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Perth Metropolitan Region 152,406 154,445 160,003 4 City of Swan: Perth Metropolitan Region 108,461 133,851 152,974 5 City of Rockingham: 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
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]
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 ...
Detailed sub-regional planning frameworks containing comprehensive spatial maps were published separately as Perth and Peel @ 3.5 million, extending the strategic timeframe out to 2050. [1] These frameworks, covering Perth’s Central, North-West, North-East and Southern regions, included specific population targets for each local government ...
According to the 2016 census of population, there were 8,211 people in Fremantle. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people made up 1.5% of the population. 56.0% of people were born in Australia. The most common countries of birth were England 10.4%, New Zealand 2.7%, Italy 2.7% and Ireland 1.2%. 75.3% of people spoke only English at home.
York was the first inland settlement in Western Australia, situated 97 kilometres (60 mi) east of Perth and settled on 16 September 1831. York was the staging point for early explorers who discovered the rich gold reserves of Kalgoorlie. Population growth was very slow until significant discoveries of gold were made in the 1890s around Kalgoorlie.
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 ...