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Thursday, August 21, 2014

The Australian Population Map


The Australian Bureau of Statistics has for the rootage fourth dimension 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 practice 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 every bit good been used to practice approximately other interesting interactive maps. Australia's Special Broadcasting Service, a multilingual broadcasting service for ethnic communities, has used the census information to map the tumble out 3 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 genuinely contains a serial of maps, 1 showing the province every bit a whole, a seat out of maps roofing the major cities as well as approximately other map of the whole province which excludes immigrants from England as well as New Zealand.


The Sydney Morning Herald every bit good used the census information to practice an interesting mapped analysis of the languages spoken inward the city. The map shows the tumble out non-English languages spoken inward each of the city's suburbs, the density of English linguistic communication every bit a rootage linguistic communication as well as the linguistic variety inward each neighbourhood.

Sydney's Melting Pot of Language reveals that eastward Asians predominantly alive inward the N shore piece Standard Arabic speakers dominate the western suburbs. Over 250 unlike languages are spoken inward the metropolis as well as nearly xl percent verbalize a non-English linguistic communication every bit their rootage 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 simply you lot tin conduct whatever of the portion bars to sentiment a percent breakdown of the private languages.