The statistic shows the ten largest cities in Australia in 2021. In 2021, around 5.26 million people lived in Sydney and the surrounding area, making it the most populous city in Australia.

Australia Cities Database

Below is a list of 1,035 prominent cities in Australia. Each row includes a city's latitude, longitude, state, population and other variables of interest. This is a subset of all 13,842 places in Australia (and only some of the fields) that you'll find in our World Cities Database. This data subset is released for free under an MIT license. Notable Cities: The capital of Australia is Canberra, which is in the territory of Australian Capital Territory. The largest city in Australia is Sydney, with an urban population of 5,312,163.

Data Source

Data is downloaded from https://simplemaps.com/data/world-cities, sbset of a major dataset that is included all cities of the world. You can find more on Simple Maps.

Inspiration

This data is useful to be joined to other datasets for Australia.

Australia Population in Largest City: as % of Urban Population data was reported at 22.396 % in 2025. This records an increase from the previous number of 22.311 % for 2024. Australia Population in Largest City: as % of Urban Population data is updated yearly, averaging 24.852 % from Dec 1960 (Median) to 2025, with 66 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 27.249 % in 1971 and a record low of 21.907 % in 2013. Australia Population in Largest City: as % of Urban Population data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Australia – Table AU.World Bank.WDI: Population and Urbanization Statistics. Population in largest city is the percentage of a country's urban population living in that country's largest metropolitan area.;World Urbanization Prospects 2018, United Nations (UN), uri: https://population.un.org/wup/, publisher: UN Population Division, date published: 2018;Weighted average;

Graph and download economic data for Geographical Outreach: Number of Branches in 3 Largest Cities, Excluding Headquarters, for Commercial Banks for Australia (AUSFCBODCLNUM) from 2004 to 2015 about branches, Australia, banks, and depository institutions.

This statistic displays the Australian cities with the greatest share of consumers following a vegetarian or mostly vegetarian diet in 2015/2016. That year, Melbourne ranked number ***** with **** percent of respondents eating little or no meat.

In 2026, the population of Australia was approximately 28.1 million, compared with 14.8 million in 1980. Population of Australia Australia is among the ten largest countries in the world, in terms of area size, although its total population is low in relation to this. Much of Australia’s interior remains uninhabited, as the majority of Australians live in coastal metropolises and cities. Most of the population is of European descent (predominantly British), although there is a growing share of the population with Asian heritage; only a small percentage belongs to the indigenous Aboriginal population. Australia's year-on-year population growth is fairly high compared to most other economically and demographically advanced nations, due to comparatively high rates of natural increase and immigration. Living standards Standard of living is fairly high in Australia, which can be seen when looking at the Human Development Index, which ranks countries by their level of human development and living standards, such as their unemployment rate, literacy rate, or life expectancy at birth. Life expectancy of Australia’s population is quite high in international comparison, for example, Australia is also among the leading countries when it comes to this key factor. Economically speaking, Australia is also among the leading nations, with a steadily rising employment rate, an increasing gross domestic product (GDP) with a steady growth rate, and a relatively stable share in the global GDP.

Graph and download economic data for Geographical Outreach: Number of Automated Teller Machines (ATMs) in 3 Largest Cities for Australia (AUSFCACLNUM) from 2004 to 2015 about ATM, Australia, banks, and depository institutions.

In 2024, approximately ******* people lived in Stockholm, making it not only the capital, but also the biggest city in Sweden. The second biggest city, Gothenburg (Göteborg) had about half as many inhabitants, with about ******* people. Move to the citySweden is a country with a very high urbanization rate, the likes of which is usually only seen in countries with large uninhabitable areas, such as Australia, or in nations with very little rural landscape and agrarian structures, like Cuba. So why do so few Swedes live in rural areas, even though based on total area, the country is one of the largest in Europe? The total population figures are the answer to this question, as Sweden has only about 10.3 million inhabitants as of 2018 – that’s only 25 inhabitants per square kilometer. Rural exodus or just par for the course?It is no mystery why most Swedes flock to the cities: Jobs, of course. Over 65 percent of Sweden’s gross domestic product is generated by the services sector, and agriculture only contributes about one percent to the GDP. Employment mirrors this, with 80 percent of the workforce being deployed in services, namely in foreign trade, telecommunications, and manufacturing, among other industries.

As of June 2025, it was estimated that around 7.3 percent of Australians were aged between 25 and 29, and the same applied to people aged between 35 and 39. All in all, 55 percent of Australia’s population was aged 35 years or older as of June 2025. At the same time, the age distribution of the country also shows that the share of children under 14 years old was almost the same as the share of people over 65 years old. A breakdown of Australia’s population growth Australia is the seventh-largest country in the world, yet with a population of around 27.6 million inhabitants, it is only sparsely populated. Since the 1970s, the population growth of Australia has remained fairly constant. While there was a slight rise in the Australian death rate in 2022, the birth rate of the country decreased after a slight rise in the previous year. The fact that the birth rate is almost double the size of its death rate gives the country one of the highest natural population growth rates of any high-income country.
National distribution of the population Australia’s population is expected to surpass 29 million people by 2030. The majority of its inhabitants live in the major cities. The most populated states are New South Wales, Victoria, and Queensland. Together, they account for over 75 percent of the population in Australia.

Major Australian cities such as Sydney, Melbourne, and Brisbane dominate theonline education platforms marketowing to high concentrations of universities, tech infrastructure, and corporate demand. These urban centres benefit from strong broadband connectivity and digital literacy, drawing both domestic and international learners. Meanwhile, regional expansion is underpinned by government efforts to bridge educational gaps, yet metropolitan areas remain primary hubs for content development, platform adoption, and market activity. The Australia online education platforms market stands at approximately USD 3.85 billion, reflecting robust growth in demand for digital learning services. This size is propelled by widespread digital adoption across remote and metropolitan areas, heightened by urbanisation and device penetration. Expansion into 2024 indicates continued uptake, with increasing student enrolment, policy backing, and infrastructure investments driving platform revenue upward—reaching close to USD 4 billion mid-year. Australia Online Education Platform Market Overview and Size

This feature layer provides access to OpenStreetMap (OSM) tourist attraction point data for Australia and Oceania, which is updated every 5 minutes with the latest edits. This hosted feature layer view is referencing a hosted feature layer of OSM point (node) data in ArcGIS Online that is updated with minutely diffs from the OSM planet file. This feature layer view includes tourism features defined as a query against the hosted feature layer (i.e. tourism is not blank).In OSM, tourism features are places and things of specific interest to tourists including places to see, places to stay, things and places providing information and support to tourists. These features are identified with a tourism tag. There are hundreds of different tag values used in the OSM database. In this feature layer, unique symbols are used for several of the most popular tourism types, while lesser used types are grouped in an "other" category.Zoom in to large scales (e.g. Cities level or 1:160k scale) to see the tourism features display. You can click on a feature to get the name of the tourism feature. The name of the feature will display by default at very large scales (e.g. Building level of 1:2k scale). Labels can be turned off in your map if you prefer.Create New LayerIf you would like to create a more focused version of this tourism layer displaying just one or two tourism types, you can do that easily! Just add the layer to a map, copy the layer in the content window, add a filter to the new layer (e.g. tourism is ruin), rename the layer as appropriate, and save layer. You can also change the layer symbols or popup if you like.Important Note: if you do create a new layer, it should be provided under the same Terms of Use and include the same Credits as this layer. You can copy and paste the Terms of Use and Credits info below in the new Item page as needed.

The final Australian National Liveability Study 2018 datasets comprise a suite of policy relevant spatial indicators of local neighbourhood liveability and amenity access estimated for residential address points across Australia's 21 largest cities, and summarised at range of larger area scales (Mesh Block, Statistical Areas 1-4, Suburb, LGA, and overall city summaries). The indicators and measures included encompass topics including community and health services, employment, food, housing, public open space, transportation, walkability and overall liveability. The datasets were produced through analysis of built environment and social data from multiple sources including OpenStreetMap the Australian Bureau of Statistics, and public transport agency GTFS feed data. These are provided in CSV format under an Open Data Commons Open Database licence. The 2018 Australian National Liveability data will be of interest to planners, population health and urban researchers with an interest in the spatial distribution of built environment exposures and outcomes for data linkage, modelling and mapping purposes. Area level summaries for the data were used to create the indicators for the Australian Urban Observatory at its launch in 2020.

A detailed description of the datasets and the study has been published in Nature Scientific Data, and notes and code illustrating usage of the data are located on GitHub.

The spatial data were developed by the Healthy Liveable Cities Lab, Centre for Urban Research with funding support provided from the Australian Prevention Partnership Centre #9100003, NESP Clean Air and Urban Landscapes Hub, NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence in Healthy, Liveable Communities #1061404 and an NHMRC Senior Principal Research Fellowship GNT1107672; with interactive spatial indicator maps accessible via the Australian Urban Observatory. Any publications utilising the data are not necessarily the view of or endorsed by RMIT University or the Centre of Urban Research. RMIT excludes all liability for any reliance on the data.

As of 2021, there were approximately **** thousand small-scale solar panel installations in Bundaberg, Queensland in Australia. Meanwhile, in the same year, there were just under ** thousand solar panel installations in Springfield Lakes, Queensland.

Among Australia's largest cities, Melbourne had relatively more companies with a cryptocurrency ATM or in-store payment method than Sydney in 2021. According to open-source information, the country's two biggest cities had more of these businesses than other cities like Brisbane or Adelaide - although the city of Gold Coast had relatively many of these firms for its size. The figures shown here broadly follow the same findings from a source that investigates Bitcoin ATMs in Australia.

With an increase of about ** percent, Perth experienced the largest annual change in the value of residential property compared to other capital cities in Australia for the year ended April 2025. Melbourne witnessed the largest annual decrease in the value of residential property compared to other capitals.

The share of urban population in Australia was 87.6 percent in 2024. Between 1960 and 2024, the share rose by 6.01 percentage points, though the increase followed an uneven trajectory rather than a consistent upward trend.

A "workation" is a trip where people travel to a new destination and work from there for at least part of their stay. ******************** was ranked by the source as the leading city destination for a workation worldwide in 2024. The ranking considers factors like remote working infrastructure, liveability, and cost of living. For further information on the methodology, please consult the supplementary notes.

The statistic depicts Australia's gross domestic product (GDP) from 1987 to 2024, with projections up until 2030. In 2024, GDP in Australia amounted to about 1.8 trillion US dollars. See global GDP for a global comparison. Australia’s economy and population Australia’s gross domestic product has been growing steadily, and all in all, Australia and its economic key factors show a well-set country. Australia is among the countries with the largest gross domestic product / GDP worldwide, and thus one of the largest economies. It was one of the few countries not severely stricken by the 2008 financial crisis; its unemployment rate, inflation rate and trade balance, for example, were hardly affected at all. In fact, the trade balance of Australia – a country’s exports minus its imports – has been higher than ever since 2010, with a slight dip in 2012. Australia mainly exports wine and agricultural products to countries like China, Japan or South Korea. One of Australia’s largest industries is tourism, which contributes a significant share to its gross domestic product. Almost half of approximately 23 million Australian residents are employed nowadays, life expectancy is increasing, and the fertility rate (the number of children born per woman) has been quite stable. A look at the distribution of the world population by continent shows that Australia is ranked last in terms of population and population density. Most of Australia's population lives at the coast in metropolitan areas, since parts of the continent are uninhabitable. Unsurprisingly, Australia is known as a country with very high living standards, four of its biggest cities – Melbourne, Adelaide, Sydney and Perth – are among the most livable cities worldwide.

Sydney reigns as Australia's most-visited destination among international tourists, welcoming over *** million visitors in 2024. This popularity extends beyond foreign travelers, as Sydney also topped the lists for domestic overnight and day trip visitors, solidifying its status as the country's tourism powerhouse. The city's appeal spans various traveler segments, from holidaymakers to business visitors. Tourism sector revival in Australia Australia’s tourism industry has shown resilience and recovery following the COVID-19 pandemic. While international visitor numbers to Australia plummeted in 2020 and 2021, they rebounded significantly in 2024, surpassing ***** million, approximately **** million less than the peak visitor influx witnessed in 2019. This upturn reflects a gradual return to pre-pandemic levels, with vacations and visiting friends and relatives emerging as the primary reasons for international travel to Australia. Domestic tourism has also played a crucial role in the sector's recovery, with around *** million domestic overnight visitors recorded in 2024. Where are Australia's tourism hotspots? Beyond Sydney, other major cities and coastal regions attract substantial visitor numbers. Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, and the Gold Coast round out the top five destinations for international tourists. New South Wales, home to Sydney, captured over a third of all international visitor nights across the country’s states and territories in 2024, highlighting the state's dominance in the tourism market. Victoria followed as the second most popular state, likely due to its concentration of visitor attractions, such as the Great Ocean Road. In terms of domestic tourism, Sydney, Melbourne, and Brisbane alongside the New South Wales North Coast and South Coast comprise the most popular destinations among locals taking overnight trips.

Sydney had the highest median house value compared to other capital cities in Australia as of April 2025, with a value of over **** million Australian dollars. Brisbane similarly had relatively high average residential housing values, passing Canberra and Melbourne to top the pricing markets for real estate across the country alongside Sydney. Housing affordability in Australia Throughout 2024, the average price of residential dwellings remained high across Australia, with several capital cities breaking price records. Rising house prices continue to be an issue for potential homeowners, with many low- and middle-income earners priced out of the market. In the fourth quarter of 2024, Australia’s house price-to-income ratio declined slightly to ***** index points. With the share of household income spent on mortgage repayments increasing alongside the disparity in supply and demand, inflating construction costs, and low borrowing capacity, the homeownership dream has become an unattainable prospect for the average person in Australia. Does the rental market offer better prospects? Renting for prolonged periods has become inevitable for many Australians due to the country’s largely inaccessible property ladder. However, record low vacancy rates and elevated median weekly house and unit rent prices within Australia’s rental market are making renting a less appealing prospect. In financial year 2024, households in the Greater Sydney metropolitan area reported spending around ** percent of their household income on rent.