SYDNEY’S GROWTH.
DENSITY OF POPULATION. It was stated in an’official statement issued recently by the Commonwealth Statistician (Air E. T. AlcPliee) the fact 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 37.4 per cent, with the result that the density of the population at June 30, 1933, when the census was taken, was 5063 persons per 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, nnd 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 per 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.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 245, 13 September 1935, Page 10
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174SYDNEY’S GROWTH. Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 245, 13 September 1935, Page 10
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