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The population of Significant Urban Areas

Significant Urban Areas (abbreviated as SUA) represent individual Urban Centres with a core urban population over 10,000 persons. They can also include related peri-urban areas too. SUAs are aggregations of statistical areas level 2 (SA2) which enables them to provide a broad range of regularly updated ABS demographic and social statistics that are not available for the SA1 based Urban Centres and Localities. [1]


Population maps (click to enlarge) [3]

Population [people], population density [p./kmĀ²] and population change [%/year] [2]

Most populated significant urban areas, population in thousands:

1. Sydney (4741)
2. Melbourne (4670)
3. Brisbane (2332)
4. Perth (2001)
5. Adelaide (1316)
6. Gold Coast - Tweed Heads (663)
7. Newcastle - Maitland (480)
8. Canberra - Queanbeyan (449)
9. Central Coast (331)
10. Sunshine Coast (325)
11. Wollongong (298)
12. Geelong (261)
13. Hobart (210)
14. Townsville (180)


List of SUA in ABC order (110 items):

A B C D E F G H K L M N O P R S T U V W Y

Sources, more info:

[1] Read more about SUA and Australian Statistical Geography Standard (ASGS) on abs.gov.au

[2] Population data from Australian Bureau of Statistics (Population and density: 2017; change: 2016-2017) retrieved: 2018-11-26

[3] Digital Boundaries: Australian Statistical Geography Standard (ASGS) 2016.