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Tinana has an estimated 6,226 residents, up from 5,872 at the 2021 Census — a change of 354 people, or 6.0%. Growth has averaged 0.9% a year over five years. 170 new addresses have been validated here since Census night. Interstate and internal migration accounts for 73.0% of that increase. That puts 167 residents on each square kilometre. Population is estimated from ABS Estimated Resident Population releases and GNAF address data, re-based from the 2021 Census and updated annually.
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As of Aug 2026, the suburb of Tinana has an estimated resident count of roughly 6,226, drawn from AreaSearch evaluations of broader ABS demographic releases alongside post-Census address validations. This represents an expansion of 354 people (6.0%) from the 2021 Census baseline of 5,872 people. Such growth builds upon the 6,176 residents estimated by AreaSearch following the ABS ERP update in June 2025, combined with 170 validated new addresses identified following the Census. The suburb's density stands at 166 persons per square kilometer, preserving generous physical space and capacity for future residential infill.
Inflow from interstate migration served as the principal demographic engine, accounting for roughly 73.0% of recent population gains. Demographic projections for the suburb of Tinana incorporate 2024 ABS/Geoscience Australia SA2 modeling anchored to 2022. For periods beyond 2032 or locations outside that scope, Queensland State Government 2023 SA2 releases based on 2021 numbers are applied, with AreaSearch distributing age segments via weightings from the 2023 ABS Greater Capital Region series (based on 2022 benchmarks). Over the next 16 years, the suburb of Tinana is forecast to experience a population increase placing it marginally beneath the regional national median, adding 372 persons by 2041 across aggregated SA2 boundaries to register an overall rise of 5.2%.
Frequently Asked Questions - Population
191 new dwellings have been approved in Tinana over the past five years, an average of 38 a year. That places the area in the 65th percentile for residential development activity nationally, about 6 approvals per 1,000 residents a year. Of the 45 dwellings approved in the latest reporting year, 87% were detached houses and the rest townhouses or apartments. Approvals are currently running at an annualised 69, running ahead of that longer-run average. Figures come from ABS building approvals aggregated to this Suburb (SAL) boundary and are updated monthly as the ABS releases them.
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Dwelling approval trends evaluated by AreaSearch from ABS records indicate the suburb of Tinana typically sees about 38 residential permits granted annually, amounting to 191 homes across the previous 5 financial years, with 69 approvals logged to date in FY-25. Across the 5 financial years from FY-21 to FY-25, the arrival rate averaged 1.2 new residents annually per built dwelling, underscoring balanced supply and demand dynamics. Average construction costs stand at $391,000 per dwelling, sitting below regional benchmarks to deliver competitive price points. In parallel, commercial building approvals reached $26.5 million within the current financial year, highlighting steady non-residential capital injection.
Residential building volume in the suburb of Tinana tracks moderately above the Rest of Qld standard, exceeding the per-capita 5 year period regional benchmark by 12.0% to support local property values while offering adequate purchaser options. Building activity is heavily weighted toward standalone residences, with detached dwellings representing 87.0% of approvals and townhouses or apartments comprising 13.0%. Overall development remains spacious, averaging approximately 110 people per dwelling approval. Looking forward from the latest quarterly AreaSearch calculation, the suburb of Tinana is projected to welcome an additional 322 residents through to 2041. Ongoing residential construction trajectories appear well-positioned to satisfy this incoming demand, sustaining favorable buyer purchasing conditions and potentially accommodating expansion beyond baseline expectations.
Frequently Asked Questions - Development
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SOURCE: Planning portals and council registers, compiled by AreaSearch. Distance & bearing measured from the suburb midpoint.
AreaSearch tracks 2 current infrastructure and development projects inside Tinana. A further 17 sit in the immediately surrounding suburbs, taking the tracked pipeline within reach of the area to $1.26 billion. 10 are already under construction and 7 are due for completion within three years. The pipeline spans residential development, transport & logistics and manufacturing. Records are compiled from Infrastructure Australia, state agencies, council planning portals and public announcements, reviewed and updated daily, then ranked by proximity, construction stage, completion horizon and project scale.
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Capital investments and planning developments play a vital role in shaping the local economic landscape. AreaSearch has highlighted 9 notable projects with the potential to influence local performance, with prominent undertakings including The Heights Estate, Central Acres Estate, Mary Harbour Development, and the Energy Storage Industries (ESI) Battery Manufacturing Facility.
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The Heights Estate
Boutique residential estate offering premium building lots ranging from 608m2 to 835m2 in Tinana, part of the Fraser Coast region. Positioned on high-level land with natural breezes, close to Maryborough town centre and Mary River. Stages 1-5 sold out, Stage 6 expected in August 2026.
Central Acres Estate
Tinana's newest boutique acreage estate offering 30 prestige acreage home sites ranging from 1 to 5 acres (4,004m2 to 22,730m2), featuring prime pastures, beautiful country outlooks, and convenient access to Maryborough CBD and Hervey Bay beaches.
Energy Storage Industries (ESI) Battery Manufacturing Facility
Australia's first commercial-scale manufacturing plant for grid-scale iron flow batteries, located in Maryborough in Queensland's Fraser Coast region. The $70 million facility uses iron flow battery technology licensed from Oregon-based ESS Inc, assembling batteries capable of up to 14 hours of energy storage with a 25-year operational life. Construction began in September 2024 with Wide Bay-Burnett contractor IDC Construct as the lead builder. ESI is targeting first battery production by end of 2025, scaling to 200MW per year by 2026 and 400MW per year by 2029 - enough to power a city the size of Toowoomba annually.The project is backed by a $25 million Queensland Government debt and equity investment, $40 million from a UK-based fund, and a further $3 million REFF grant for electrolyte production capacity. When fully operational by mid-2029, the plant will support up to 273 full-time jobs and supply wholesale electricity generators, energy retailers, and commercial and industrial customers across Australia and the Asia-Pacific.
Mary Harbour Development
The Mary Harbour project is a 174-hectare master-planned mixed-use precinct on the Mary River at Granville, Maryborough. The proposal includes a 300-berth marina with a 15-hectare man-made harbour spanning 2km of river frontage, a four-star 100-room resort hotel with conference facilities, a village centre with retail and community spaces, and approximately 1,800 dwellings for an estimated 3,500 residents. A development application was first lodged by MSF Sugar (now owned by Thai conglomerate Mitr Phol) with Fraser Coast Regional Council in 2015.The site is embedded within the Granville Emerging Community Local Plan Code of the Fraser Coast Planning Scheme. As of May 2026, the project remains dormant with no active construction or updated development applications recorded, and the Maryborough Sugar Factory ceased crushing operations in 2020.
Homes for Queenslanders - Maryborough Social Housing
Construction of seven new one and two-bedroom social homes on the site of a disused retail space in Maryborough to provide housing for single people, couples, people with disability, and older Queenslanders. Two homes designed to Gold Level accessibility standards under the Social Housing Design Guidelines. Part of the Miles Government's Homes for Queenslanders plan, with federal funding through the Social Housing Accelerator.
Maryborough Manufactured Home Park Development
Approved manufactured home park development featuring 270 residential lots plus commercial and recreational facilities. Supporting affordable housing options and community development in the Maryborough region.
Hyundai Rotem Steel Roll Forming Facility
The Hyundai Rotem Steel Roll Forming Facility is a 30,000 square meter manufacturing plant in Maryborough West, producing sub-components for train car bodies using roll forming technology. It supports the Queensland Train Manufacturing Program by providing essential steel components for 65 new passenger trains, boosting local employment and supply chain in the Wide Bay region.
Maryborough Fire and Rescue Station
Australia's first mass engineered timber fire station, built using Cross Laminated Timber (CLT) and glulam, replacing the existing station while retaining the brick facade to showcase sustainable construction.
2,906 residents of Tinana are employed, from a labour force of 3,007. Unemployment sits at 3.4%, with participation at 56.6%. Weighted for its industry mix, the area's sectors are forecast to grow about 6.0% nationally over five years. That reflects industry composition only and makes no allowance for local population growth. The working-day population is estimated at 5,133, about 82% of the resident population, so more people leave the area for work than travel in. Unemployment and labour force come from ABS Small Area Labour Markets, updated quarterly; the industry and occupation profile is from the 2021 Census.
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Workforce patterns across Tinana demonstrate a diversified split between blue and white-collar occupations alongside solid representation across essential services. Based on AreaSearch statistical aggregations, the local jobless rate sits at 3.4%, trailing Regional Qld's 3.9% by 0.6%, with annual job growth calculated at 7.4%. As of March 2026, employed residents total 2,906, though the labor participation rate of 56.6% falls well below the wider Regional Qld level of 64.2%. Only 5.4% of working residents reported working remotely at the Census, a figure subject to pandemic-era conditions. The primary employment sectors for local workers are health care & social assistance, education & training, and retail trade.
Industrial manufacturing represents a distinct local concentration, with resident engagement reaching 1.7 times the regional rate. In contrast, professional & technical roles account for only 2.8% of employment against the 5.1% regional standard. Comparing resident counts to Census workplace counts confirms that the neighborhood functions primarily as a dormitory suburb with limited internal business employment. According to ABS and SALM figures analyzed by AreaSearch, the suburb witnessed a 7.4% rise in employment and a 5.4% expansion in the workforce over 12 months, reducing unemployment by 1.9 percentage points, whereas Regional Qld recorded a 0.1% employment gain, a 0.3% labor force lift, and a 0.1 percentage point increase in joblessness. Factoring in Jobs and Skills Australia's Mar-26 industry outlooks—which project nationwide employment to grow by 6.6% over five years and 13.7% over ten years—Tinana's specific sectoral composition suggests local employment gains of 6.0% over five years and 13.0% over ten years via simple structural weighting.
Frequently Asked Questions - Employment
Median household income in Tinana is $1,255 a week (about $65,000 a year), with median personal income at $581 a week. ATO records put median taxable income at $47,951 a year against an average of $55,360. Household income is from the 2021 Census; taxable income is from ATO Taxation Statistics for the latest financial year available, indexed forward using the ABS Wage Price Index.
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ATO taxation statistics for financial year 2023 compiled by AreaSearch indicate that personal earnings in the suburb of Tinana trail broader benchmarks, recording a median income of $47,951 and an average income of $55,360, compared to Regional Qld benchmarks of $53,146 (median) and $66,593 (average). Applying an 11.36% Wage Price Index increase since financial year 2023 places modeled March 2026 earnings at approximately $53,398 for the median and $61,649 for the average. In the 2021 Census, local individual, family, and household earnings sat between the national 9th and 17th percentiles.
A cohort of 1,861 individuals (29.9% of local earners) falls within the $800 - 1,499 weekly bracket, unlike the wider region where the $1,500 - 2,999 category leads at 31.7%. Even with 88.7% of earnings retained after modest accommodation costs, net disposable income ranks at the 22nd percentile across Australia.
Frequently Asked Questions - Income
Tinana had 2,206 occupied dwellings at the 2021 Census, 95% detached houses and 1% apartments. 31% are owned with a mortgage, 16% rented and 53% owned outright. At that Census the median rent was $300 a week and the median mortgage repayment $1,310 a month. Rent absorbs 23.9% of household income here and mortgage repayments 24.1%. Dwelling stock, tenure and housing costs are 2021 Census measures — the only source that counts dwellings at this boundary size.
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The residential stock in the suburb of Tinana consists overwhelmingly of standalone houses at 94.9%, with semi-detached houses, apartments, and other residential types accounting for 5.0%, in contrast to Regional Qld where houses constitute 76.4% and other dwellings make up 23.6%. Outright homeownership is high at 53.0%, with remaining properties distributed between mortgaged tenures (31.0%) and private rentals (16.0%). Housing costs remain affordable relative to wider benchmarks: median monthly mortgage payments stand at $1,310 compared to $1,655 for Regional Qld and $1,863 nationally, while median weekly rent is $300 against $345 regionally and $375 across Australia.
Frequently Asked Questions - Housing
Tinana counted 2,206 households at the 2021 Census, an estimated 2,339 today, averaging 2.5 people each. 27% are couples with children, against 40% couples without children. 20% of households are people living alone, and families average 1.9 children. Household and family composition is measured only by the Census, so these are 2021 figures.
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Families make up 77.4% of all local households, divided between couples without children (39.7%), couples with children (26.7%), and single parent families (10.7%). The remaining 22.6% of residences are non-family households, consisting of lone person households (19.9%) and group living arrangements (2.5%). Average household size matches the Regional Qld standard at 2.5 people.
Frequently Asked Questions - Households
12.4% of adults in Tinana hold a university qualification, including 9.1% with a bachelor degree and 1.6% with postgraduate qualifications, lower than 82% of areas nationally. A further 34.4% hold a vocational qualification. 2 schools serve the area, with 479 enrolment places and an average ICSEA of 966 against a national benchmark of 1,000. Qualifications come from the 2021 Census; school enrolments, ICSEA and results come from ACARA's current release.
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Educational attainment in the area reflects a strong vocational orientation alongside lower rates of higher education, with university credentials held by 12.4% of residents compared to the national rate of 30.4%. Bachelor degrees account for 9.1% of qualifications, followed by graduate diplomas at 1.7% and postgraduate degrees at 1.6%. In contrast, 44.0% of residents aged 15+ hold technical qualifications, including 34.4% with certificates and 9.6% holding advanced diplomas. Formal study engages 23.8% of the local population. Within this learning cohort, 8.9% attend primary schools, 8.8% are enrolled in secondary education, and 2.0% undertake tertiary courses.
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Getting around Tinana means driving: households keep an average of 1.7 vehicles, and scheduled services reach only a handful of stops. Service data is built from operators' published GTFS timetables; vehicle ownership is from the 2021 Census.
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Public transport networks within the suburb of Tinana encompass 26 active stops across local bus routes, operating along 1 individual routes to provide 25 weekly passenger trips. Typical walking distance to a transit stop is 455 meters. Private vehicles dominate outward daily travel, accounting for 95% of commuting trips, supported by an above-average vehicle ownership rate of 1.7 per dwelling, while 5.4% of residents worked from home at the 2021 Census. Transit services deliver an average of 3 trips per day across the network, translating to virtually no weekly departures for any individual stop.
Frequently Asked Questions - Transport
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58.1% of residents in Tinana report no long-term health condition. 9.3% need daily assistance with core activities, and 49.1% hold private health cover. The standardised death rate runs at 4.7 per 1,000 residents. Health conditions, assistance needs and insurance are 2021 Census measures; the death rate comes from current ABS releases.
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Health indicators compiled by AreaSearch reveal noticeable health challenges in the locality, marked by ongoing chronic condition prevalence across age groups and private health insurance coverage of approximately 49% (around 3,059 people). This coverage level trails both the Regional Qld standard of 52.5% and the Australian average of 55.7%. Arthritis and mental health conditions are the most prevalent reported illnesses, diagnosed in 12.3% and 9.4% of the population respectively, while 58.1% of residents reported no long-term medical conditions compared to 67.6% across Regional Qld. Chronic conditions are elevated among working-age individuals, and older residents aged 65 and over represent 31.1% of the population (1,936 people), noticeably exceeding the 20.3% share observed across Regional Qld.
Frequently Asked Questions - Health
Tinana is largely Australian-born, at 88.8% of residents, with 3.2% speaking a language other than English at home. The largest reported ancestries are English (33.7%) and Australian (30.3%). 3.0% of residents identify as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander. Ancestry, language and country of birth are counted only by the Census, so these are 2021 figures.
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Cultural diversity metrics show an established domestic demographic profile, with 88.8% of residents born in Australia, 91.7% holding citizenship, and 96.8% speaking exclusively English at home. Christianity forms the dominant religious affiliation, representing 56.3% of the community compared to 52.2% across Regional Qld. The most widely reported ancestries among residents are English (33.7%), Australian (30.3%), and Scottish (8.3%). Distinct ethnic variations include German ancestry at 7.8% (above the 4.7% regional figure), Australian Aboriginal background at 3.0% (below the 3.9% regional rate), and Samoan heritage at 0.1% (compared to 0.2% regionally).
Frequently Asked Questions - Diversity
The median resident of Tinana is 49, older than 90% of areas nationally. 20.4% of residents are aged 15 to 34. Age cohorts are not raw Census counts: the Census split is re-based to the latest ABS population estimates and state projections.
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The age profile in the suburb of Tinana heavily reflects older and lifestyle-oriented cohorts, with residents aged 65+ making up 31.1% of the population as at August 2026 compared to 20.4% across Regional Qld. In contrast, adults aged 25 - 44 account for 18.5%, trailing the regional proportion of 25.5%. The estimated median age sits at 49 as at August 2026, identical to the 2021 Census result and well above the Regional Qld (41) and national (38) Census medians. Since the Census, the 65+ cohort has expanded from 28.4% to an estimated 31.1% and is forecast to add 363 residents (19%) to reach 2,299 by 2041, whereas child and younger adult cohorts are projected to contract.
Frequently Asked Questions - Age
Data & MethodBoundaries, Sources & Method for Tinana
9 of 14 data sections on this page were updated within the last 12 months — the newest current to Oct 2026.
Everything is aggregated to the Suburb (SAL) boundary shown above, on a 2021 Census baseline. Only 3 sections — housing, households and cultural diversity — still wait on the 2026 Census.
The ledger — source, cycle and currency by section
| Section | Source & update cycle | Currency |
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| Updated within the last 12 months 9 sections | ||
| Population | ABS, GNAF, Geoscience Australia Annual (ABS ERP) | Aug 2026 2 months ago headline measures · 2021 Census baseline |
| Re-based to the ABS Estimated Resident Population (June 2025 release) and updated with new dwellings from GNAF address data. Current to Aug 2026, with the 2021 Census supplying the small-area baseline. | ||
| Age profile | ABS, Geoscience Australia, State governments Annual | Aug 2026 2 months ago headline measures · 2021 Census baseline |
| Age cohorts are re-based to the latest ABS population estimates and state projections, current to Aug 2026. Each cohort is held as a Census baseline and a current estimate. | ||
| Development & approvals | ABS, GNAF Monthly (ABS approvals) | Aug 2026 2 months ago headline measures · Jul 2026 baseline |
| Property sales & rents | Valuer General, Rental Board, ABS Weekly sales, quarterly rents | Oct 2026 this month headline measures · Sep 2026 baseline |
| Sales from the state Valuer General register, refreshed weekly, and rents from quarterly rental bond lodgements. Both are read live each time this page loads, current to Oct 2026. | ||
| Infrastructure projects | Infrastructure Australia, State agencies, Local governments Daily | Aug 2026 2 months ago all 2 projects tracked here |
| Project pipeline maintained continuously from Infrastructure Australia, state agencies, local government and public announcements. Records are added and revised daily; this area was last updated Aug 2026. | ||
| Employment | ABS, DEWR, JSA Quarterly (ABS SALM) | Mar 2026 7 months ago headline measures · 2021 Census baseline |
| Unemployment and labour force from ABS Small Area Labour Markets, current to Mar 2026. The growth outlook applies Department of Employment (now Jobs and Skills Australia) forecasts for all 19 industry divisions to the local industry mix, so it measures sector composition rather than local expansion and makes no allowance for population growth. Job demand comes from the same agency via its Internet Vacancy Index; industry and occupation structure from the 2021 Census. | ||
| Education | ABS, ACARA Annual (ACARA) | Sep 2026 last month headline measures · 2021 Census baseline |
| Transport | ABS, State Transport Departments Each timetable release | Jul 2026 3 months ago headline measures · 2021 Census baseline |
| Services & amenities | Provider directories, ACECQA Continuous | Sep 2026 last month all 14 measures |
| Annual and financial-year sources 2 sections | ||
| Income | ABS, ATO Annual (ATO) | FY 2023 3 years ago headline measures · 2021 Census baseline |
| ATO taxable income statistics for FY 2023, indexed forward using the Wage Price Index. Census household income provides the distribution detail. | ||
| Health | ABS, ATO Annual | 2024 2 years ago headline measures · 2021 Census baseline |
| Census-measured — next update: 2026 Census 3 sections No more current small-area source exists for these, so they are labelled as Census-measured rather than implied to be current. | ||
| Housing | ABS 5-yearly (Census) | 2021 Census next update 2026 all 30 measures |
| Households | ABS 5-yearly (Census) | 2021 Census next update 2026 all 18 measures |
| Cultural diversity | ABS, Geoscience Australia 5-yearly (Census) | 2021 Census next update 2026 all 44 measures |
"Currency" is the most recent release feeding that section. Where the Census supplies the structural baseline underneath a current headline figure, the row says so.
How the numbers are built
Population
The Census provides the small-area baseline, aggregated from mesh blocks to this boundary. It is then re-based to the ABS Estimated Resident Population (June 2025 release), and new dwellings built since Census night are counted from address data — 170 validated new addresses here. The headline figure is therefore a current estimate for Aug 2026, not a 2021 count (5,872 at the 2021 Census → 6,226 now). Annual growth rates are compound (CAGR), not simple averages.
Age profile
Cohort shares are not raw Census counts. Every cohort is held as a pair — the Census baseline and a current estimate — and the split is re-based using ERP and state population projections, current to Aug 2026. Median age is the Census median plus modelled change since. Charts that show both are labelled "2021 Census vs Current Estimate".
Property sales
Sourced from the state valuation authority's sales register — current, not Census, and refreshed weekly. Medians are calculated from settled transactions in the period shown; periods with very low transaction counts are flagged or suppressed, because a handful of sales can move a median substantially.
Rents
Derived from state rental bond lodgement data, by dwelling type and bedroom count. Bonds are lodged at the start of a new tenancy, so this reflects new lettings, not the whole rented stock.
Development & infrastructure
Building approvals come from current ABS releases; development applications are collected from council and state planning portals; the infrastructure pipeline is compiled from Infrastructure Australia and local government sources. Applications are matched to this boundary by address or coordinates, so very recent lodgements may not yet appear.
Employment & income
Industry and occupation structure comes from the Census, but the headline labour-market indicators do not. Unemployment and labour force are derived from ABS Small Area Labour Markets (quarterly). The employment outlook applies Department of Employment forecasts for all 19 industry divisions to this area's own industry mix (the agency is now Jobs and Skills Australia), as does the Internet Vacancy Index used for job demand. Because it is weighted on industry composition alone, that outlook carries no allowance for local population growth — in fast-growing areas the real rise in local jobs will typically be higher. Income combines Census household income with ATO taxable-income statistics for FY 2023, indexed forward using the Wage Price Index.
Education, transport & amenities
School enrolments, ICSEA and performance come from ACARA's current release, not the Census. Public transport stops and service frequency are derived from GTFS timetable feeds published by state transport departments. Services and amenities are proximity and count scores built from provider directories, refreshed on their own cycle. The Census contributes only the travel-to-work and qualification measures.
Rankings and benchmarks. Where we rank this area, the comparison set is every area of the same boundary type — suburbs against suburbs, SA2s against SA2s. Benchmarks compare this area against its greater capital city region and the national figure for the same measure and period.
Limits worth knowing. Small areas carry larger error margins, and the ABS introduces small random adjustments to Census counts to protect confidentiality — so totals may not sum exactly. Estimates re-based from regional data describe the area's expected trajectory, not a direct count of it. Figures are indicative for research and are not financial, planning or valuation advice.
Cross-check us. The Census baseline for this boundary is at ABS 2021 Census QuickStats (SAL32827). QuickStats reports 2021 only — the figures on this page are more current wherever the ledger shows a later date.