Parts of Perth are more crowded than Berlin and Paris. Find out how dense your suburb is

Parts of Perth are more crowded than Berlin and Paris. Find out how dense your suburb is

Perth has recorded the largest increase in population over the past 20 years in Australia,while also clocking the highest portion of detached houses of any capital.

  • bySarah Brookes

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Rise of the tombstone suburb:Wealthy Sydney areas where deaths outnumber births
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Ageing

Rise of the tombstone suburb:Wealthy Sydney areas where deaths outnumber births

Sydney’s population is booming thanks to migration,but deaths are outnumbering births in a growing share of mainly wealthy suburbs.

  • byMatt Wade
WA house price boom not just about migrants – another population’s exploding

WA house price boom not just about migrants – another population’s exploding

This demographic was minuscule in WA in 1993. You never saw them around – just in your community paper from time to time. But their number has since exploded.

  • bySarah Brookes
Victoria’s new tax is driving landlords out. But is that a bad thing?
Analysis
Renting

Victoria’s new tax is driving landlords out. But is that a bad thing?

It has become easy for landlords and real estate agents to point to the recently expanded land tax as a reason for spiking rents. But it’s more complicated.

  • byJim Malo
Growing pains:The Perth suburbs bearing the brunt of the population surge

Growing pains:The Perth suburbs bearing the brunt of the population surge

It is the sprawling suburbs on Perth’s eastern fringe accommodating the lion’s share of the city’s post-COVID population boom. Here are the top 20.

  • bySarah Brookes andCraig Butt
How an Italian province made it affordable to have a family

How an Italian province made it affordable to have a family

Italy has one of the lowest birthrates in Europe except for one province that has emerged as a parallel procreation universe.

  • byJason Horowitz andGaia Pianigiani
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Brisbane’s big boom:How many people are moving to your suburb?

Brisbane’s big boom:How many people are moving to your suburb?

In one suburb south of Brisbane’s CBD,an average of five people moved in daily last year. Search our interactive maps to see how your suburb compares.

  • byMarissa Calligeros andCraig Butt
The proof that Minns’ housing policy is the right call

The proof that Minns’ housing policy is the right call

Sydney’s population crush is coming down heaviest on western Sydney and it is skewing housing across the city.

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Parts of Melbourne are more crowded than Manhattan and London. Find out how dense your suburb is

Parts of Melbourne are more crowded than Manhattan and London. Find out how dense your suburb is

Population data shows our city has been transformed by high and medium-density living. Use our interactives to check your area.

  • byJosh Gordon,Craig Butt andAlex Crowe
Which Sydney suburbs are bearing the brunt of the population surge?

Which Sydney suburbs are bearing the brunt of the population surge?

Sydney’s population is booming overall,but half the city’s suburbs still have fewer people than before the COVID pandemic.

  • byMatt Wade andNigel Gladstone
Big city blues:Are we ready for Perth to become a major metropolis?
Opinion
Perth

Big city blues:Are we ready for Perth to become a major metropolis?

New figures have revealed Perth to be Australia’s fastest-growing capital city. While many of us crave size,we’re now dealing with the pros and cons of being in the big league.

  • byMark Naglazas