State of Australian Cities
State of Australian Cities 2011
State of Australian Cities 2011 was launched by the Hon Anthony Albanese MP, Minister for Infrastructure and Transport in October 2011 and has since been downloaded over 800,000 times.
Not only does it build on the knowledge contained in the first report published in 2010, it also brings together a raft of new data that compares our cities with each other and cities internationally. It provides an evidence base to support the National Urban Policy released in May 2011, which sets out concrete steps to make our cities better places to live and work in.
State of Australian Cities 2011
- Full Report [
PDF: 14559 KB] [
] - Media release
- Minister’s launch speech
Individual chapters
- Acknowledgement, Contents, List of Table, List of Figures, Abbreviations and Acronyms [PDF: 103 KB] []
- Foreward [PDF: 210 KB] []
- Executive Summary [PDF: 212 KB] []
- Chapter 1: Introduction [PDF: 733 KB] []
- Chapter 2: Population and Settlement [PDF: 2637 KB] []
- Chapter 3: Productivity [PDF: 2100 KB] []
- Chapter 4: Sustainability [PDF: 1245 KB] []
- Chapter 5: Liveability [PDF: 2150 KB] []
- Chapter 6: Governance [PDF: 325 KB] []
- Appendix A [PDF: 177 KB] []
- Appendix B [PDF: 637 KB] []
- Appendix C [PDF: 635 KB] []
State of Australian Cities 2010
The State of Australian Cities 2010 report has been downloaded over 900,000 times since it was published in March 2010.
State of Australian Cities 2010 draws together existing data and information across a range of economic, social and environmental parameters to provide a national snapshot of the seventeen Australian cities with populations over 100,000 at the date of the 2006 Census. Since then Albury-Wodonga has reached a population over 100,000, increasing the number of Australian major cities to eighteen.
The report highlights emerging trends and issues to promote discussion and debate on managing growth and change in our major urban centres.
State of Australian Cities 2010
- Full Report [PDF: 10136 KB] []
- Minister’s launch speech
Individual chapters
- Contents [PDF: 462 KB] []
- Executive Summary [PDF: 94 KB] []
- Chapter 1: Introduction [PDF: 152 KB] []
- Chapter 2: Australian cities in an international context [PDF: 436 KB] []
- Chapter 3: Population and settlement [PDF: 962 KB] []
- Chapter 4: Productivity of Australian cities [PDF: 532 KB] []
- Chapter 5: The sustainability of Australian cities [PDF: 702 KB] []
- Chapter 6: Liveability of Australian cities [PDF: 1675 KB] []
- Chapter 7: Social inclusion and equity [PDF: 241 KB] []
- Chapter 8: Governance [PDF: 199 KB] []
- Appendix A: Major city relative share of Australia's sociodemographic profile [PDF: 80 KB] []
- Appendix B: Local government in Australia's major cities [PDF: 5677 KB] []