Chart and table of population level and growth rate for the Melbourne, Australia metro area from 1950 to 2025.

Australia Population: Resident: Estimated: Annual: Victoria: Greater Melbourne data was reported at 4,843,781.000 Person in 2017. This records an increase from the previous number of 4,714,387.000 Person for 2016. Australia Population: Resident: Estimated: Annual: Victoria: Greater Melbourne data is updated yearly, averaging 4,217,604.500 Person from Jun 2006 (Median) to 2017, with 12 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 4,843,781.000 Person in 2017 and a record low of 3,760,760.000 Person in 2006. Australia Population: Resident: Estimated: Annual: Victoria: Greater Melbourne data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Australian Bureau of Statistics. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Australia – Table AU.G002: Estimated Resident Population.

This dataset provides population forecasts by single year for 2023 to 2043. Prepared by SGS Economics and Planning (Feb-Sep 2024), forecasts are available for the municipality and small areas, as well as by gender and 5 year age groups.

Further information can be found on our City Forecasts page.

Related datasets are also available on Open Data.

In 2023, about 7.8 percent of the population of the Australian state of Victoria was between 30 and 34 years old. Approximately 2.1 percent of the population of Victoria was over 85 years of age.

Contains demographic profile information from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) 2016 Census of Population and Housing. Data has been aggregated by younger people (aged 15-24 years), as well as the remaining population (aged 0-14 years & aged 25 years and over).

This data has been derived from the ABS Census TableBuilder online data tool (http://www.abs.gov.au/websitedbs/D3310114.nsf/Home/2016%20TableBuilder) by Australian Bureau of Statistics, used under CC 4.0.

Humans have been living on the continent of Australia (name derived from "Terra Australis"; Latin for "the southern land") for approximately 65,000 years, however population growth was relatively slow until the nineteenth century. Europeans had made some contact with Australia as early as 1606, however there was no significant attempt at settlement until the late eighteenth century. By 1800, the population of Australia was approximately 350,000 people, and the majority of these were Indigenous Australians. As colonization progressed the number of ethnic Europeans increased while the Australian Aboriginal population was decimated through conflict, smallpox and other diseases, with some communities being exterminated completely, such as Aboriginal Tasmanians. Mass migration from Britain and China After the loss of its American colonies in the 1780s, the British Empire looked to other parts of the globe to expand its sphere of influence. In Australia, the first colonies were established in Sydney, Tasmania and Western Australia. Many of these were penal colonies which became home to approximately 164,000 British and Irish convicts who were transported to Australia between 1788 and 1868. As the decades progressed, expansion into the interior intensified, and the entire country was claimed by Britain in 1826. Inland colonization led to further conflict between European settlers and indigenous Australians, which cost the lives of thousands of natives. Inward expansion also saw the discovery of many natural resources, and most notably led to the gold rushes of the 1850s, which attracted substantial numbers of Chinese migrants to Australia. This mass migration from non-European countries eventually led to some restrictive policies being introduced, culminating with the White Australia Policy of 1901, which cemented ethnic-European dominance in Australian politics and society. These policies were not retracted until the second half of the 1900s. Independent Australia Australia changed its status to a British dominion in 1901, and eventually became independent in 1931. Despite this, Australia has remained a part of the British Commonwealth, and Australian forces (ANZAC) fought with the British and their Allies in both World Wars, and were instrumental in campaigns such as Gallipoli in WWI, and the South West Pacific Theater in WWII. The aftermath of both wars had a significant impact on the Australian population, with approximately 90 thousand deaths in both world wars combined, as well as 15 thousand deaths as a result of the Spanish flu pandemic following WWI, although Australia experienced a significant baby boom following the Second World War. In the past fifty years, Australia has promoted immigration from all over the world, and now has one of the strongest economies and highest living standards in the world, with a population that has grown to over 25 million people in 2020.

Contains demographic profile information for City of Melbourne residents from the ABS 2011 and 2016 Census of Population and Housing. Data has aggregated by City of Melbourne small areas.

This data is a derivative of "2016 General Community Profile for Melbourne LGA (https://datapacks.censusdata.abs.gov.au/datapacks)" by Australian Bureau of Statistics, used under CC 2.5.

Contains demographic profile information from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) 2016 Census of Population and Housing. Data has been aggregated based on the top 12 countries of birth for residents.

This data has been derived from the ABS Census TableBuilder online data tool (http://www.abs.gov.au/websitedbs/D3310114.nsf/Home/2016%20TableBuilder) by Australian Bureau of Statistics, used under CC 4.0.

This statistic shows a breakdown of the student population of Australia in 2016, by city. In 2016, there were just under 295 thousand students in Melbourne, followed by Sydney with around 219 thousands.

Contains demographic profile information from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) 2016 Census of Population and Housing. Data has been aggregated based on residents living in buildings with four or more storeys.

This data has been derived from the ABS Census TableBuilder online data tool (http://www.abs.gov.au/websitedbs/D3310114.nsf/Home/2016%20TableBuilder) by Australian Bureau of Statistics, used under CC 4.0.

The workforce dataset contains monthly workforce sizes from July 2005 to June 2018 in the eight Australian capital cities with estimated stratification by indoor and outdoor workers. It is included in both csv and rda format. It includes variables for:

Year Month GCCSA (Greater Capital City Statistical Area, which is used to define capital cities) Date (using the first day of the month) fulltime: Fulltime workers parttime: Parttime workers n. Overall workers outorin. Estimated indoor or outdoor status

This data are derived from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) Labour Force, Australia, Detailed, LM1 dataset: LM1 - Labour force status by age, greater capital city and rest of state (ASGS), marital status and sex, February 1978 onwards (pivot table). Occupational data from the 2006, 2011 and 2016 Census of Population and Housing (ABS Census TableBuilder Basic data) were used to stratify this dataset into indoor and outdoor classifications as per the "Indooroutdoor classification.xlsx" file. For the Census data, GCCSA for the place of work was used, not the place of usual residence.

Occupations were defined by the Australian and New Zealand Standard Classification of Occupations (ANZSCO). Each 6-digit ANZSCO occupation (the lowest level classification) was manually cross-matched with their corresponding occupation(s) from the Canadian National Occupation System (NOC). ANZSCO and NOC share a similar structure, because they are both derived from the International Standard Classification of Occupations. NOC occupations listed with an “L3 location” (include main duties with outdoor work for at least part of the working day) were classified as outdoors, including occupations with multiple locations. Occupations without a listing of "L3 location" were classified as indoors (no outdoor work). 6-digit ANZSCO occupations were then aggregated to 4-digit unit groups to match the ABS Census TableBuilder Basic data. These data were further aggregated into indoor and outdoor workers. The 4-digit ANZSCO unit groups’ indoor and outdoor classifications are listed in "Indooroutdoor classification.xlsx."

ANZSCO occupations associated with both indoor and outdoor listings were classified based on the more common listing, with indoors being selected in the event of a tie. The cross-matching of ANZSCO and NOC occupation was checked against two previous cross-matches used in published Australian studies utilising older ANZSCO and NOC versions. One of these cross-matches, the original cross-match, was validated with a strong correlation between ANZSCO and NOC for outdoor work (Smith, Peter M. Comparing Imputed Occupational Exposure Classifications With Self-reported Occupational Hazards Among Australian Workers. 2013).

To stratify the ABS Labour Force detailed data by indoors or outdoors, workers from the ABS Census 2006, 2011 and 2016 data were first classified as indoors or outdoors. To extend the indoor and outdoor classification proportions from 2005 to 2018, the population counts were (1) stratified by workplace GCCSA (standardised to the 2016 metrics), (2) logit-transformed and then interpolated using cubic splines and extrapolated linearly for each month, and (3) back-transformed to the normal population scale. For the 2006 Census, workplace location was reported by Statistical Local Area and then converted to GCCSA. This interpolation method was also used to estimate the 1-monthly worker count for Darwin relative to the rest of Northern Territory (ABS worker 1-monthly counts are reported only for Northern Territory collectively).

ABS data are owned by the Commonwealth Government under a CC BY 4.0 license. The attached datasets are derived and aggregated from ABS data.

With 109.9 men per one hundred women in the city, the greater Darwin area in Australia has the highest sex ratio. This is in stark contrast to the demographics of the other major cities in Australia which have more women than men. This is consistent with the fact that more than two thirds of all women between 25 and 64 participating in the workforce.Despite this fact, there is still some disparity between men and women in high level position as women are multiple times more likely to be sexually assaulted while men are much more likely to be victims of murder.The perpetrators of crimes are also much more likely to be men as there are

In the Australian state of Victoria, about 1.52 children were born per average woman in the period of 2022-2023. This figure represents a slight decrease compared to the previous year.

Victoria in Future 2016 (VIF2016) is the official state government projection of population and households. Projections are used by decision makers across government and in other areas. The results are driven by assumptions concerning demographic and land use trends. Projections are based on the latest (30 June 2015) population estimates from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) and incorporate the results of the 2011 Census. For Victoria and major regions, the projections cover the period from 2011 to 2051. For Local Government Areas (LGA) and Victoria in Future Small Areas (VIFSA), the projections extend to 2031.

This dataset contains counts of the total usual resident population and total dwelling count from the 2016 Census of Population and Housing for Mesh Blocks, aggregated to Statistical Area Level 1 (SA1) for the AURIN Portal. Data is current for Census Night 9 August 2016 and describes geographic Australia; including Norfolk Island, the Territory of Christmas Island and the Territory of Cocos (Keeling) Islands, but does not include any other external Territory. For more information, refer to the Australian Bureau of Statistics' Census of Population and Housing: Mesh Block Counts, Australia, 2016.

Contains demographic profile information from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) 2016 Census of Population and Housing. Data has been aggregated by older people (aged 60 years and over), as well as the remaining population (aged under 60 years).

This data has been derived from the ABS Census TableBuilder online data tool (http://www.abs.gov.au/websitedbs/D3310114.nsf/Home/2016%20TableBuilder) by Australian Bureau of Statistics, used under CC 4.0.

Contains demographic profile information for workers from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) 2016 Census of Population and Housing. Data has been aggregated based on work location.

This data has been derived from the ABS Census TableBuilder online data tool (http://www.abs.gov.au/websitedbs/D3310114.nsf/Home/2016%20TableBuilder) by Australian Bureau of Statistics, used under CC 4.0.

This statistic shows a breakdown of the student population who were renting privately or living at home in Australia in 2017, by city. In 2017, there were just under 200 thousand students in private rents or at home in Melbourne.

This dataset contains National Regional Profile (NRP) data on Population and People at LGA level for 2010-2014. The data uses 2014 non-ABS ASGS boundaries. The NRP is designed for users interested in the socio-economic and environmental characteristics of regions - and in comparisons with similar geographies across Australia. Data are arranged under the broad themes/topics of Economy, Industry, People, and Energy and Environment. Please note some data are not available for all reference years, for a variety of reasons. For example; there may be conceptual breaks in a data series; the collection frequency may be irregular; some series may have revisions pending; or permission to publish in the NRP may have only been granted recently. In addition, some data series are not available for the full range of geographies. The reasons can include: data owner or custodian preferences; industry identification with a few, particular geographies only; confidentiality protection; and the presence of many suppressed data cells (at smaller geographic levels) thus making true aggregations up to larger ASGS regions difficult. This data is ABS data used with permission from the Australian Bureau of Statistics. Please note National Regional Profile (1379.0.55.001) has been discontinued. For the most recent regional data, please see Data By Region (1410.0). For more information please visit the Australian Bureau of Statistics.

The 2014 Town and Community Profiles bring together information on more than 1000 Victorian communities from a wide variety of sources, both internal and external to the Department of Health and Department of Human Services. The Profiles include information on population, geography, services and facilities, and social, cultural and demographic characteristics of each suburb, town and rural catchment in Victoria.