Migrate to Melbourne: outer suburbs
20 August 2016 by News DeskMigrate to Melbourne: city chiefs are spending $5 million to develop new suburbs outside the city centre.
Migrate to Melbourne has been the watchword among thousands of new arrivals as the city is now home to more than 4.5 million people.
Population growth in Victoria is highest in Australia and in planning for the future the State Government is encouraging settlement in regional areas.
Around six million people live in Victoria, an increase of 500,000 over the past five years. The population of Greater Melbourne increased to 4.53 million people, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics.
Migrate to Melbourne: outer suburbs
In the outer south east the municipality of Casey, including Berwick and Cranbourne, is now home to 292,000 people, the same number as Wollongong.
In the outer west Wyndham, including Point Cook and Werribee, has a population of 210,000, similar to Greater Geelong.
The Victorian government has set aside around $5 million to promote new development and jobs in Melbourne’s outer regions.
The Government aims to encourage growth in regional areas such as Ballarat, Bendigo, Geelong and the Latrobe Valley.
The ABS report said that since 2011, Greater Geelong’s population had risen by 14,000 to 229,420, while Greater Bendigo’s had increased by 6000 to 108,437.
Ballarat, population 100,000, has attracted an extra 6000 residents since 2011.
The government is spending $2 million on new green field construction and preparing former industrial sites for redevelopment including Alphington and Coburg.
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