GROWTH OF SYDNEY

Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21580, 17 September 1935, Page 3

GROWTH OF SYDNEY

BIG INCREASE IN 14 YEARS DENSITY OF POPULATION RISES (IBOU OtTB OTfS COaaEBPOHDEKT.) SYDNEY, September 5. It was stated in an official statement issued by the Commonwealth Statistician (Mr E. T. McPhee) that since the 1921 census the Metropolitan area of New South Wales had been extended by 59 square miles, or 31.9 per cent., and now comprised 244 square miles. During the period 1921-33 the population of the metropolitan area increased by 37 per cent., with the result that the density of population at June 30, 1933, when the census was taken, was 5063 persons I a square mile, compared with 4864 persons at the previous census. The density of population of the urban provincial area of New South Wales had increased from 195 to 259 persons, and that of the rural area from 2.17 persons to 2.59 persons. The average for the whole state at the 1933 census was 8.39 persons a square mile, compared with 6.75 persons at the 1921 census and 5.32 persons at the 1911 census. At June 30, 1933, there were 628,487 dwellings in New South Wales, including private houses, tenements, flats, hotels, boardinghouses, hospitals, and other institutions. Of those 599,750 were occupied at the time of the census, and 28,737 were unoccupied. The average number of inmates for all private houses had decreased from 4.56 persons a dwelling at the previous census to 4.24 in 1933 s