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Melbourne Urbanized Area and Components

Urbanized Area Definition

DEVELOPMENT RING: Statistical Local Area Urbanized Area in Square Kilometers Urbanized Area in Square Miles 1994 Population 1999 Population Urbanized Population per Square Kilometer Urbanized Population per Square Mile Change in Population: 1994-1999 Percentage Change in Population: 1994-1999
1ST RING (INNER)                
Darebin - Northcote 14.0 5.4 45,684 46,915 3,351 8,686 1,231 2.7%
Melbourne - Inner 1.8 0.7 1,459 4,729 2,627 6,810 3,270 224.1%
Melbourne - Remainder 29.6 11.4 33,134 39,583 1,337 3,466 6,449 19.5%
Melbourne - S'bank–D'lands 4.7 1.8 993 3,197 680 1,763 2,204 222.0%
Moreland - Brunswick 10.7 4.1 40,732 41,129 3,844 9,963 397 1.0%
Port Phillip - St Kilda 8.9 3.4 47,348 49,710 5,585 14,477 2,362 5.0%
Port Phillip - West 11.7 4.5 25,975 30,321 2,592 6,717 4,346 16.7%
Stonnington - Prahran 9.6 3.7 43,188 45,418 4,731 12,263 2,230 5.2%
Yarra - North 13.3 5.1 42,383 44,412 3,339 8,655 2,029 4.8%
Yarra - Richmond 6.2 2.4 23,255 24,488 3,950 10,238 1,233 5.3%
2ND RING                
Banyule - Heidelberg 32.6 12.6 61,761 63,430 1,946 5,043 1,669 2.7%
Banyule - North 30.0 11.6 55,567 56,032 1,868 4,841 465 0.8%
Bayside - Brighton 13.8 5.3 34,448 36,393 2,637 6,836 1,945 5.6%
Bayside - South 23.2 9.0 50,738 53,105 2,289 5,933 2,367 4.7%
Boroondara - Camberwell N. 17.6 6.8 41,664 43,916 2,495 6,468 2,252 5.4%
Boroondara - Camberwell S. 18.2 7.0 48,385 50,337 2,766 7,169 1,952 4.0%
Boroondara - Hawthorn 9.9 3.8 31,571 33,352 3,369 8,732 1,781 5.6%
Boroondara - Kew 14.5 5.6 28,797 30,797 2,124 5,505 2,000 6.9%
Darebin - Preston 39.4 15.2 80,503 82,682 2,099 5,439 2,179 2.7%
Glen Eira - Caulfield 22.2 8.6 72,464 76,249 3,435 8,903 3,785 5.2%
Glen Eira - South 16.5 6.4 45,737 47,219 2,862 7,418 1,482 3.2%
Hobsons Bay - Williamstown 16.3 6.3 26,253 28,769 1,765 4,575 2,516 9.6%
Kingston - North 68.5 26.4 89,235 90,889 1,327 3,439 1,654 1.9%
Kingston - South 22.6 8.7 38,314 43,412 1,921 4,979 5,098 13.3%
Maribyrnong 31.2 12.0 61,289 60,992 1,955 5,067 (297) -0.5%
Moonee Valley - Essendon 21.6 8.3 65,605 68,754 3,183 8,250 3,149 4.8%
Moreland - Coburg 18.3 7.1 49,949 49,500 2,705 7,011 (449) -0.9%
Moreland - North 22.0 8.5 45,259 46,776 2,126 5,511 1,517 3.4%
Stonnington - Malvern 16.0 6.2 43,543 45,763 2,860 7,414 2,220 5.1%
3RD RING                
Brimbank - Keilor 58.8 22.7 71,723 83,937 1,428 3,700 12,214 17.0%
Brimbank - Sunshine 64.6 24.9 79,204 79,886 1,237 3,205 682 0.9%
Casey - Berwick 83.4 32.2 37,675 58,104 697 1,806 20,429 54.2%
Casey - Cranbourne 84.0 32.4 42,392 49,305 587 1,521 6,913 16.3%
Casey - Hallam 40.2 15.5 46,568 49,054 1,220 3,163 2,486 5.3%
Frankston - East 64.6 24.9 28,520 34,391 532 1,380 5,871 20.6%
Frankston - West 65.0 25.1 78,940 77,671 1,195 3,097 (1,269) -1.6%
Gr. Dandenong - Dandenong 39.0 15.0 57,787 58,026 1,488 3,856 239 0.4%
Gr. Dandenong - Balance 90.8 35.0 73,458 73,816 813 2,107 358 0.5%
Hobsons Bay - Altona 48.1 18.6 49,163 53,800 1,119 2,899 4,637 9.4%
Hume - Broadmeadows 44.5 17.2 67,843 69,074 1,552 4,023 1,231 1.8%
Knox - North 71.7 27.7 109,953 111,254 1,552 4,022 1,301 1.2%
Knox — South 42.2 16.3 24,410 32,472 769 1,994 8,062 33.0%
Manningham - East 58.0 22.4 13,179 14,774 255 660 1,595 12.1%
Manningham - West 55.4 21.4 97,062 98,842 1,784 4,625 1,780 1.8%
Maroondah - Croydon 37.9 14.6 52,138 55,209 1,457 3,776 3,071 5.9%
Maroondah - Ringwood 23.5 9.1 42,313 43,264 1,841 4,772 951 2.2%
Monash - South-West 21.5 8.3 39,920 41,647 1,937 5,021 1,727 4.3%
Monash - Waverley East 27.9 10.8 61,883 60,686 2,175 5,638 (1,197) -1.9%
Monash - Waverley West 32.1 12.4 59,382 60,244 1,877 4,865 862 1.5%
Moonee Valley - West 22.7 8.8 42,686 43,357 1,910 4,951 671 1.6%
Whitehorse - Nunawading E. 21.4 8.3 45,684 45,739 2,137 5,540 55 0.1%
Whitehorse - Nunawading W. 21.3 8.2 49,526 51,465 2,416 6,263 1,939 3.9%
Whitehorse - Box Hill 21.6 8.3 47,885 49,770 2,304 5,972 1,885 3.9%
URBANIZED AREA 1,705.1 657.8 2,594,527 2,734,056 1,603 4,156 139,529 5.4%

Derived and Estimated by Demographia from Australian Bureau of Statistics Data

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