The Australian Population Map

The Australian Bureau of Statistics has for the starting fourth dimension time released population inward a 1 km² grid format. The information represents the Usual Resident Population (URP) from the 2011 Census of Population as well as Housing.

The Guardian has used the information to practise an interactive map of Australian population density. The Most Detailed Map of Australian Population Density Ever provides a rut map of Australian population density using the Mapbox platform.


The 2011 Australian census has likewise been used to practise unopen to other interesting interactive maps. Australia's Special Broadcasting Service, a multilingual broadcasting service for ethnic communities, has used the census information to map the piece of occupation past times iii birthplaces of immigrants inward suburbs as well as towns across Australia.

Where Australia's Immigrants Were Born uses the Mapbox mapping platform to visualize the countries of births of Australian immigrants. The article truly contains a serial of maps, ane showing the province equally a whole, a release of maps roofing the major cities as well as unopen to other map of the whole province which excludes immigrants from England as well as New Zealand.


The Sydney Morning Herald likewise used the census information to practise an interesting mapped analysis of the languages spoken inward the city. The map shows the piece of occupation past times non-English languages spoken inward each of the city's suburbs, the density of English linguistic communication equally a starting fourth dimension linguistic communication as well as the linguistic multifariousness inward each neighbourhood.

Sydney's Melting Pot of Language reveals that due east Asians predominantly alive inward the due north shore piece Standard Arabic speakers dominate the western suburbs. Over 250 dissimilar languages are spoken inward the metropolis as well as nearly twoscore percent utter a non-English linguistic communication equally their starting fourth dimension tongue.

Accompanying the mapped visualization is a bar graph showing the numbers of speakers of each of the non-English languages spoken inward the city. The graph groups the languages into global regions merely yous tin pick out whatsoever of the percentage bars to stance a pct breakdown of the private languages.