Sdinesh2222

RE: metropolitan areas in Australia

Hi Sdinesh, it's complicated in Australia. The three units used that can define a city are all built from different base statistical units: the GCCSA from SA4s, which are labour market areas, the Significant Urban Areas (SUA) from SA2s which are small units (made up of part of a town or a few urban suburbs) meant to be the main unit of stats output between censuses, and the Urban Centres are built from even smaller units, SA1s, which also come together to make the bigger units > SA2, > SA3 (which don't seem to have any purpose other than making things even more complicated), SA4s. You can compare the different units here: https://itt.abs.gov.au/itt/r.jsp?ABSMaps

Wikipedia for some reason decided to use GCCSAs as the population figures for the capital cities. I don't really like it, but it's the consensus at the moment. I would much prefer the Urban Centres to be used consistently reporting populations for all major towns and cities, because as you say they are based approximately on the actual built up areas of the cities. ҉ Randwicked ҉ 06:48, 4 November 2020 (UTC)

Thanks for that, it clarifies a lot. And I agree with you on the preferred method of reporting populations.

Allendale East Town vs Locality

Hi Sdinesh2222, I just noticed the post re the above subject on my talk page. As I have not been on WP for 4 months, it may take several days for me to reply to your questions etc. Regards Cowdy001 (talk) 05:25, 8 November 2020 (UTC)