Melbourne is set to overtake Sydney as Australia's biggest city in just seven years - with an extra 327 people moving to the city every day
- Melbourne receives 327 people a day and is due to over take Sydney by 2026
- The most densely populated area in Australia the inner city Melbourne
- According to the ABS, net overseas migration is the biggest factor in net growth
Melbourne is set to overtake Sydney as Australia's biggest city within the next seven years, with more than 300 people moving there every day.
According to the the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) the total number of residents in the greater area of Melbourne was 4,963,349 people.
The inner city of Melbourne currently tops Australia for the most densely populated area with 20,700 people per sq km.
According to the ABS Greater Sydney had seven of the ten most densely-populated areas
The estimates also show that Greater Sydney still holds seven of the ten most densely-populated areas in Australia in June 2018 - with a total population of more than 5.2 million.
Potts Point - Woolloomooloo in inner Sydney came second in Australia with a density of 16,610 people per sq km and Pyrmont-Ultimo areas which came third with 16,526 per sq km.
Sydney also had 53 statistical areas with population densities more than 8,000 people per sq km, compared with Melbourne which only has 15 areas that populous.
The city of Sydney increased its overall population by 93,411 or 1.8 per cent between 2017 and 2018, bringing its total population to more than 5.2 million people.
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In NSW, both the largest and fastest growth area was recorded in Sydney's northwest.
This is the smallest increase recorded since 2014- 2015.
According to the ABS, net overseas migration added 71,000 people to the population in Sydney in 2017-2018.
Melbourne beat Sydney with the biggest population increase in the country by 2.5 per cent
However, the city recorded a net internal migration loss as 27,300 more people left Sydney to move to other parts of the country than arrived from around Australia.
The rest of the growth was made up by natural increases.
Melbourne saw the biggest population increase in the country with 119,421 people, or 2.5 per cent.
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