Melbourne has surged ahead of Sydney in population growth and is projected to become Australia’s largest city if current trends continue. Over the 2024–25 financial year, Melbourne’s population surged ...

Melbourne has overtaken Sydney to become Australia’s largest city by population — thanks to a technicality. The borders of the city, which is the capital of the state of Victoria, have been redrawn to ...

INCREDIBLE before and after images show Melbourne’s huge and rapid sprawl as the city expands. An expert says we’re not ready for what comes next. He said it is not quite time to shut the gate, but it ...

Melbourne’s metropolitan population continues to boom in the southeastern, western and northern fringes, a state government report said. The biggest increase was in the Wyndham region, which includes ...

A LIKELY Melbourne population of eight million by 2051 is unsustainable, and key policies are needed to redirect more growth to regional Victoria, a new report says. The state Coalition report noted ...

Research by the Urban Development Institute of Australia as well as Australia’s largest property advisory firm, Charter Kramer Keck, has found that figures compiled for the state government’s ...

Over the 2024–25 financial year, Melbourne’s population surged by 105,030 people, a rate of 2 per cent. This brought the city’s population to 5,435,590 by the end of June 2025. Melbourne’s population ...