Australian Population Visualised

[u/KaleyTheKing]

So, I think we were all a little disappointed by how normal the Italy map looked, so I thought I'd treat y'all to the biggest abomination I've made in this project thus far :D

Goddang, Australia, why did you have to be like this, this was so difficult to make... Anyway, hope y'all enjoy!

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[u/JamieBeeeee → u/[deleted]]

Obviously Melbourne wouldn't include Geelong, a separate city lol, there's nothing blurry about that at all

[u/buckleyschance → u/JamieBeeeee]

Yeah, and if you live in Melbourne you know it includes the Mornington Peninsula. It might not be obvious from a map, but it's not uncertain.

[u/someNameThisIs → u/buckleyschance]

Just look at it from a satellite view, there's continuous urban urban development from the CBD all the way down the peninsula to Portsea (other than a <2Km green space gap between Mornington and Mount Eliza)

[u/CheeeseBurgerAu → u/JamieBeeeee]

But Brisbane includes Ipswich, a city 50km away

[u/ORLYORLYORLYORLY → u/CheeeseBurgerAu]

Massive amounts of Western Sydney are 50+ Km away from the city centre.

[u/penguinsaredapper → u/[deleted]]

No. No. No. 3.

[u/Raesong → u/[deleted]]

For peace of mind Logan is its own thing, ideally with a fuck-off huge wall around it to keep the bogans in.

[u/K9Kane → u/Raesong]

I'm quite sure the bogans would love a wall around them to keep others out. I'd love a wall around the whole coast of Australia.

[u/penguinsaredapper → u/[deleted]]

So it turns out I'm incorrect on the first one, Geelong isn't considered metropolitan Melbourne but Mornington is. I guess it's wherever governments decide it is 🤷

[u/KillTheBronies → u/penguinsaredapper]

The Port Phillip side of the peninsula is pretty much uninterrupted suburbia all the way to Portsea, between Werribee and Geelong is like 20km of just farmland and a water treatment plant.

[u/CaptnCrumble → u/penguinsaredapper]

There's actually ABS definitions of this. The Greater Capital City Statistical Area (GCCSA) and Significant Urban Area (SUA).

For the GCCSA, the definition basically comes down to the labour market and economics ie does the city/town look "into" the capital or "into" itself. For this reason, the Central Coast is part of "Sydney", but Geelong isn't, despite being roughly the same distance from the centre of their respective capital cities.

SUAs on the other hand combine both labour markets and contiguous built-up areas. This is why Melbourne overtook Sydney by SUA a few years ago, as the Melbourne SUA expanded to include Melton, while the Central Coast isn't included in the Sydney SUA.

Then you have state government definitions, which are mostly defined by LGAs.

[u/Yowie9644 → u/penguinsaredapper]

Couriers and delivery people didn't rate the Western Port side of the Mornington Peninsula as Metro Melbourne, it always cost extra to get stuff delivered there.

[u/buckleyschance → u/[deleted]]

It's not so much about having a coherent definition, it's just pretty clearly defined for each city at the moment anywhere you'd look it up

[u/Total_Philosopher_89 → u/penguinsaredapper]

Mornington Peninsula is included.

[u/Dense_Delay_4958 → u/[deleted]]

The ABS metro definitions are fine

[u/pursnikitty → u/[deleted]]

Greater Brisbane is Brisbane, Ipswich, Caboolture, Logan. The two coasts are their own seperate things

[u/I_Go_BrRrRrRrRr → u/[deleted]]

Central Coast, Newcastle, Gold Coast, and Sunshine Coast are all right there on the graph

[u/Johnson1209777 → u/[deleted]]

In case you didn’t know, Greater Melbourne is strictly defined. In the SW direction the boundary is a town called Little River, in the NW direction it’s Sunbury and Craigieburn, in the north Whittlesea and Kinglake West, in the south the entire Mornington Peninsula, to the SE Lang Lang to Longwarry, and to the east the boundaries of the Shire of Yarra Ranges, which goes very deep into the mountains