AusEnHealth Catalogue
Resident population density
This dataset contains annual and monthly population density from 2000 onwards for Statistical Area Levels 2, 3 and 4, Greater Capital City Statistical Areas and Local Government Areas on fixed 2021 boundaries, derived from the QUT-derived estimated resident population for all persons. Population is divided by the region's ABS area (AREASQKM21). No additional interpolation or population estimation is applied. The quality column grades the population inputs. good: ABS annual source value; fair: QUT monthly interpolation; poor: QUT backcast/forecast periods or endpoint extrapolation. Null quality accompanies undefined indicators. Growth uses the worse input quality. The status column explains why a value is missing. available: value is defined; missing_input: a required source value is absent; undefined_zero_baseline: percentage growth from zero to a positive population is undefined and must not be imputed; invalid_area: density denominator is absent, zero, or non-finite. Zero-to-zero population growth is defined as zero. Tables are long-format Parquet with columns region (ABS boundary code), date (the 30 June reference date for annual rows, the month start for monthly rows), obs_value, quality (good, fair, poor) and status (available, missing_input, undefined_zero_baseline, invalid_area), hive-partitioned by variable, region_type (sa2, sa3, sa4, gcc, lga), edition (the boundary code set, asgs2021 or lga2021), period (P1Y, P1M) and year. Geometries are not included, but can be obtained from the corresponding ASGS boundary files.
Simple
- Date (Creation)
- 2026-10-08T04:00:19Z
- Date (Publication)
- 2026-10-08
- Status
- On going
- Point of contact
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Role Organisation Electronic mail address Point of contact AusEnHealth
- Spatial representation type
- Text, table
- Temporal resolution
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P1M
- Topic category
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- Society
Extent
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- Geographic identifier
- National
Temporal extent
- Time period
- 2000-01-01 2025-12-01
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Annually
- Keywords
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population
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estimated resident population
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australia
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- Theme
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Resident population density
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Resource constraints
- Access constraints
- License
- Other constraints
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Dataset language
- English
- Country
- AUS
- Character encoding
- UTF8
- Attribute description
- Dataset variables
- Content type
- Physical measurement
- Name
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population_density
- Type name
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Real
- Description
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Estimated resident population per square kilometre of the region's ABS area.
- Name
- Resident population density
- Maximum value
- 43370.726496
- Minimum value
- 0.0
- Identifier
- {persons}/km2
- Name
- persons per square kilometre
- Distribution format
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Parquet
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Digital transfer options
- OnLine resource
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Tables directory (252 Parquet files)
- Statement
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Derived from: ABS ASGS ABS Structures, ABS ASGS Non ABS Structures, QUT-derived Estimated Resident Population, Australian population estimates from 1995 to 2023 at SA2, LGA and suburb level, ABS ASGS Digital Boundary Files.
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Source
- Title
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Australian population estimates from 1995 to 2023 at SA2, LGA and suburb level
- Cited responsible party
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Role Organisation Electronic mail address Author Queensland University of Technology
Author
- Title
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ABS ASGS Digital Boundary Files
- Cited responsible party
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Role Organisation Electronic mail address Author Australian Bureau of Statistics
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Annually
- Maintenance note
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This metadata record was generated by pygeometa-0.21.1 ( https://github.com/geopython/pygeometa)
Metadata
- Metadata identifier
- c1807550-a254-59f7-9316-0d31b4912f84
- Language
- en
- Character encoding
- UTF8
- Contact
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Role Organisation Electronic mail address Custodian AusEnHealth
Type of resource
- Resource type
- Dataset
- Date info (Creation)
- 2026-10-08T04:00:19Z
- Date info (Revision)
- 2026-10-09T01:05:48.142496Z
Metadata standard
- Title
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ISO 19115-1:2014 Geographic information - Metadata - Part 1: Fundamentals
- Edition
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ISO 19115-1:2014/Amd 1:2018
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