{"id":3716,"date":"2016-12-18T22:31:24","date_gmt":"2016-12-18T22:31:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.australias.guide\/wa\/?page_id=3716"},"modified":"2018-09-09T15:09:56","modified_gmt":"2018-09-09T07:09:56","slug":"demographics","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.australias.guide\/wa\/demographics\/","title":{"rendered":"Western Australia Demographics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0estimated resident population (ERP) of WA at September 30, 2016 was 2,623,200, an increase of 0.1% from \u00a0the previous year (25,200 people). Over three quarters (79%) of the state\u2019s population lived in Greater Perth in 2015. In the five years to 2015, the population in Greater Perth increased by 258,100 to reach 2.04 million. Over the same period, the rest of WA increased by 41,400 people to reach 551,100. \u00a0WA had a median age (the age at which half the population is older and half is younger) of 36.1 years at June 2015. Females had a higher median age (36.8 years) than males (35.4). The median age of Greater Perth residents (35.7 years) was lower than for the rest of WA (37.7). Between 2010 and 2015, Greater Perth was the only capital city where median age decreased, down by 0.4 years.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0estimated resident population (ERP) of WA at September 30, 2016 was 2,623,200, an increase of 0.1% from \u00a0the previous year (25,200 people). Over three quarters (79%) of the state\u2019s population lived in Greater Perth in 2015. In the five years to 2015, the population in Greater Perth increased by 258,100 to reach 2.04 million. Over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":65081,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-template-ag-page.php","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.australias.guide\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3716"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.australias.guide\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.australias.guide\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.australias.guide\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.australias.guide\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.australias.guide\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3716\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.australias.guide\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.australias.guide\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}