The property data we normally sell. Free, for one day. What would you build? The Microburbs Hackathon: one key opens more than 200 kinds of property and urban data for the whole City of Sydney council area, block by block. Live listings, past sales, valuations, council approvals, schools, crime, tree cover, transport and the Census. Build an app, a map or a video. You don't have to code: founders, agents, investors, designers, marketers, analysts and engineers are all welcome, in teams of three to six. Saturday 7 November 2026, one day. In the room at UTS Business School, near Sydney CBD, or online from anywhere in Australia. Run with Data Science Sydney. Prizes: the winning team gets $10,000 in Microburbs API credits, $2,000 cash, and a job at Microburbs for one of its members. The top three teams each get a free month at UTS Startups. Free to enter. Places are limited, so apply: microburbs.com.au/hackathon Data: Microburbs. Photos: Wikimedia Commons. Music: Elektronomia - Sky High [NCS Release], music provided by NoCopyrightSounds, ncs.io/skyhigh #Hackathon #Sydney #PropTech #OpenData #AI

Melbourne is now Australia's biggest city. You saw the headlines. Not quite. In April 2023 the headlines said Melbourne had overtaken Sydney. What changed was a line on a map: Melbourne's official urban area was redrawn to take in Melton, about 76,000 people. That put Melbourne 18,700 ahead (June 2021 count). Take Melton back out and it would still be 57,000 behind. On the whole metro area, Sydney is still bigger: 5,638,830 to 5,435,590 in mid 2025. The official projections have Melbourne passing it somewhere between 2032 and 2046, most likely around 2036. Real numbers for every suburb, Melton included: microburbs.com.au Source: Microburbs. Headlines: The Age, 9News, 7NEWS, ABC News, news.com.au, Sydney Morning Herald. Footage: Pexels. Melton photo: Orderinchaos, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0). Music: 808 Lotus by Punch Deck (CC BY 3.0), via BreakingCopyright. #melbourne #sydney #population #australia #dataviz

The rich seats went teal. Australia's two richest electorates, Warringah and Wentworth ($2,870 a week), both elected teal independents in 2025. Typical household income in the seats each party won, and the share of homes owned outright: Teal independents (6 seats): $2,564 a week, 35% owned outright Greens (1 seat): $2,301 a week, 30% owned outright Labor (93 seats): $1,814 a week, 28% owned outright Liberal (18 seats): $1,770 a week, 34% owned outright LNP (Qld) (16 seats): $1,555 a week, 32% owned outright Other independents (4 seats): $1,450 a week, 34% owned outright Nationals (9 seats): $1,276 a week, 41% owned outright All seats: $1,768, 31% The Nationals hold the lowest-income seats, but the most homes owned outright. Lyne, on the NSW mid-north coast, is one of the poorest seats in the country and has the highest share owned outright: 47%. Teal: Bradfield, Curtin, Kooyong, Mackellar, Warringah, Wentworth. Other independents: Calare, Clark, Fowler, Indi. Incomes are from 2021; seats as won in 2025. 2026 Census estimates for every suburb at Microburbs: microburbs.com.au/research/census-2026 Data: AEC, ABS, via Microburbs. Photos: Wikimedia Commons. Music: Neon Underworld, Punch Deck (CC BY 3.0, via BreakingCopyright). #AusPol #Teals #Australia #Election2025

The property data we normally sell. Free, for one day. What would you build? The Microburbs Hackathon: one key opens more than 200 kinds of property and urban data for the whole City of Sydney council area, block by block. Live listings, past sales, valuations, council approvals, schools, crime, tree cover, transport and the Census. Build an app, a map or a video. You don't have to code: founders, agents, investors, designers, marketers, analysts and engineers are all welcome, in teams of three to six. Saturday 7 November 2026, one day. In the room at UTS Business School, near Sydney CBD, or online from anywhere in Australia. Run with Data Science Sydney. Prizes: the winning team gets $10,000 in Microburbs API credits, $2,000 cash, and a job at Microburbs for one of its members. The top three teams each get a free month at UTS Startups. Free to enter. Places are limited, so apply: microburbs.com.au/hackathon Data: Microburbs. Photos: Wikimedia Commons. Music: Elektronomia - Sky High [NCS Release], music provided by NoCopyrightSounds, ncs.io/skyhigh #Hackathon #Sydney #PropTech #OpenData #AI

Melbourne is now Australia's biggest city. You saw the headlines. Not quite. In April 2023 the headlines said Melbourne had overtaken Sydney. What changed was a line on a map: Melbourne's official urban area was redrawn to take in Melton, about 76,000 people. That put Melbourne 18,700 ahead (June 2021 count). Take Melton back out and it would still be 57,000 behind. On the whole metro area, Sydney is still bigger: 5,638,830 to 5,435,590 in mid 2025. The official projections have Melbourne passing it somewhere between 2032 and 2046, most likely around 2036. Real numbers for every suburb, Melton included: microburbs.com.au Source: Microburbs. Headlines: The Age, 9News, 7NEWS, ABC News, news.com.au, Sydney Morning Herald. Footage: Pexels. Melton photo: Orderinchaos, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0). Music: 808 Lotus by Punch Deck (CC BY 3.0), via BreakingCopyright. #melbourne #sydney #population #australia #dataviz

The rich seats went teal. Australia's two richest electorates, Warringah and Wentworth ($2,870 a week), both elected teal independents in 2025. Typical household income in the seats each party won, and the share of homes owned outright: Teal independents (6 seats): $2,564 a week, 35% owned outright Greens (1 seat): $2,301 a week, 30% owned outright Labor (93 seats): $1,814 a week, 28% owned outright Liberal (18 seats): $1,770 a week, 34% owned outright LNP (Qld) (16 seats): $1,555 a week, 32% owned outright Other independents (4 seats): $1,450 a week, 34% owned outright Nationals (9 seats): $1,276 a week, 41% owned outright All seats: $1,768, 31% The Nationals hold the lowest-income seats, but the most homes owned outright. Lyne, on the NSW mid-north coast, is one of the poorest seats in the country and has the highest share owned outright: 47%. Teal: Bradfield, Curtin, Kooyong, Mackellar, Warringah, Wentworth. Other independents: Calare, Clark, Fowler, Indi. Incomes are from 2021; seats as won in 2025. 2026 Census estimates for every suburb at Microburbs: microburbs.com.au/research/census-2026 Data: AEC, ABS, via Microburbs. Photos: Wikimedia Commons. Music: Neon Underworld, Punch Deck (CC BY 3.0, via BreakingCopyright). #AusPol #Teals #Australia #Election2025

The property data we normally sell. Free, for one day. What would you build? The Microburbs Hackathon: one key opens more than 200 kinds of property and urban data for the whole City of Sydney council area, block by block. Live listings, past sales, valuations, council approvals, schools, crime, tree cover, transport and the Census. Build an app, a map or a video. You don't have to code: founders, agents, investors, designers, marketers, analysts and engineers are all welcome, in teams of three to six. Saturday 7 November 2026, one day. In the room at UTS Business School, near Sydney CBD, or online from anywhere in Australia. Run with Data Science Sydney. Prizes: the winning team gets $10,000 in Microburbs API credits, $2,000 cash, and a job at Microburbs for one of its members. The top three teams each get a free month at UTS Startups. Free to enter. Places are limited, so apply: microburbs.com.au/hackathon Data: Microburbs. Photos: Wikimedia Commons. Music: Elektronomia - Sky High [NCS Release], music provided by NoCopyrightSounds, ncs.io/skyhigh #Hackathon #Sydney #PropTech #OpenData #AI

Melbourne is now Australia's biggest city. You saw the headlines. Not quite. In April 2023 the headlines said Melbourne had overtaken Sydney. What changed was a line on a map: Melbourne's official urban area was redrawn to take in Melton, about 76,000 people. That put Melbourne 18,700 ahead (June 2021 count). Take Melton back out and it would still be 57,000 behind. On the whole metro area, Sydney is still bigger: 5,638,830 to 5,435,590 in mid 2025. The official projections have Melbourne passing it somewhere between 2032 and 2046, most likely around 2036. Real numbers for every suburb, Melton included: microburbs.com.au Source: Microburbs. Headlines: The Age, 9News, 7NEWS, ABC News, news.com.au, Sydney Morning Herald. Footage: Pexels. Melton photo: Orderinchaos, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0). Music: 808 Lotus by Punch Deck (CC BY 3.0), via BreakingCopyright. #melbourne #sydney #population #australia #dataviz

The rich seats went teal. Australia's two richest electorates, Warringah and Wentworth ($2,870 a week), both elected teal independents in 2025. Typical household income in the seats each party won, and the share of homes owned outright: Teal independents (6 seats): $2,564 a week, 35% owned outright Greens (1 seat): $2,301 a week, 30% owned outright Labor (93 seats): $1,814 a week, 28% owned outright Liberal (18 seats): $1,770 a week, 34% owned outright LNP (Qld) (16 seats): $1,555 a week, 32% owned outright Other independents (4 seats): $1,450 a week, 34% owned outright Nationals (9 seats): $1,276 a week, 41% owned outright All seats: $1,768, 31% The Nationals hold the lowest-income seats, but the most homes owned outright. Lyne, on the NSW mid-north coast, is one of the poorest seats in the country and has the highest share owned outright: 47%. Teal: Bradfield, Curtin, Kooyong, Mackellar, Warringah, Wentworth. Other independents: Calare, Clark, Fowler, Indi. Incomes are from 2021; seats as won in 2025. 2026 Census estimates for every suburb at Microburbs: microburbs.com.au/research/census-2026 Data: AEC, ABS, via Microburbs. Photos: Wikimedia Commons. Music: Neon Underworld, Punch Deck (CC BY 3.0, via BreakingCopyright). #AusPol #Teals #Australia #Election2025

The property data we normally sell. Free, for one day. What would you build? The Microburbs Hackathon: one key opens more than 200 kinds of property and urban data for the whole City of Sydney council area, block by block. Live listings, past sales, valuations, council approvals, schools, crime, tree cover, transport and the Census. Build an app, a map or a video. You don't have to code: founders, agents, investors, designers, marketers, analysts and engineers are all welcome, in teams of three to six. Saturday 7 November 2026, one day. In the room at UTS Business School, near Sydney CBD, or online from anywhere in Australia. Run with Data Science Sydney. Prizes: the winning team gets $10,000 in Microburbs API credits, $2,000 cash, and a job at Microburbs for one of its members. The top three teams each get a free month at UTS Startups. Free to enter. Places are limited, so apply: microburbs.com.au/hackathon Data: Microburbs. Photos: Wikimedia Commons. Music: Elektronomia - Sky High [NCS Release], music provided by NoCopyrightSounds, ncs.io/skyhigh #Hackathon #Sydney #PropTech #OpenData #AI

Melbourne is now Australia's biggest city. You saw the headlines. Not quite. In April 2023 the headlines said Melbourne had overtaken Sydney. What changed was a line on a map: Melbourne's official urban area was redrawn to take in Melton, about 76,000 people. That put Melbourne 18,700 ahead (June 2021 count). Take Melton back out and it would still be 57,000 behind. On the whole metro area, Sydney is still bigger: 5,638,830 to 5,435,590 in mid 2025. The official projections have Melbourne passing it somewhere between 2032 and 2046, most likely around 2036. Real numbers for every suburb, Melton included: microburbs.com.au Source: Microburbs. Headlines: The Age, 9News, 7NEWS, ABC News, news.com.au, Sydney Morning Herald. Footage: Pexels. Melton photo: Orderinchaos, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0). Music: 808 Lotus by Punch Deck (CC BY 3.0), via BreakingCopyright. #melbourne #sydney #population #australia #dataviz

The rich seats went teal. Australia's two richest electorates, Warringah and Wentworth ($2,870 a week), both elected teal independents in 2025. Typical household income in the seats each party won, and the share of homes owned outright: Teal independents (6 seats): $2,564 a week, 35% owned outright Greens (1 seat): $2,301 a week, 30% owned outright Labor (93 seats): $1,814 a week, 28% owned outright Liberal (18 seats): $1,770 a week, 34% owned outright LNP (Qld) (16 seats): $1,555 a week, 32% owned outright Other independents (4 seats): $1,450 a week, 34% owned outright Nationals (9 seats): $1,276 a week, 41% owned outright All seats: $1,768, 31% The Nationals hold the lowest-income seats, but the most homes owned outright. Lyne, on the NSW mid-north coast, is one of the poorest seats in the country and has the highest share owned outright: 47%. Teal: Bradfield, Curtin, Kooyong, Mackellar, Warringah, Wentworth. Other independents: Calare, Clark, Fowler, Indi. Incomes are from 2021; seats as won in 2025. 2026 Census estimates for every suburb at Microburbs: microburbs.com.au/research/census-2026 Data: AEC, ABS, via Microburbs. Photos: Wikimedia Commons. Music: Neon Underworld, Punch Deck (CC BY 3.0, via BreakingCopyright). #AusPol #Teals #Australia #Election2025

The property data we normally sell. Free, for one day. What would you build? The Microburbs Hackathon: one key opens more than 200 kinds of property and urban data for the whole City of Sydney council area, block by block. Live listings, past sales, valuations, council approvals, schools, crime, tree cover, transport and the Census. Build an app, a map or a video. You don't have to code: founders, agents, investors, designers, marketers, analysts and engineers are all welcome, in teams of three to six. Saturday 7 November 2026, one day. In the room at UTS Business School, near Sydney CBD, or online from anywhere in Australia. Run with Data Science Sydney. Prizes: the winning team gets $10,000 in Microburbs API credits, $2,000 cash, and a job at Microburbs for one of its members. The top three teams each get a free month at UTS Startups. Free to enter. Places are limited, so apply: microburbs.com.au/hackathon Data: Microburbs. Photos: Wikimedia Commons. Music: Elektronomia - Sky High [NCS Release], music provided by NoCopyrightSounds, ncs.io/skyhigh #Hackathon #Sydney #PropTech #OpenData #AI

Melbourne is now Australia's biggest city. You saw the headlines. Not quite. In April 2023 the headlines said Melbourne had overtaken Sydney. What changed was a line on a map: Melbourne's official urban area was redrawn to take in Melton, about 76,000 people. That put Melbourne 18,700 ahead (June 2021 count). Take Melton back out and it would still be 57,000 behind. On the whole metro area, Sydney is still bigger: 5,638,830 to 5,435,590 in mid 2025. The official projections have Melbourne passing it somewhere between 2032 and 2046, most likely around 2036. Real numbers for every suburb, Melton included: microburbs.com.au Source: Microburbs. Headlines: The Age, 9News, 7NEWS, ABC News, news.com.au, Sydney Morning Herald. Footage: Pexels. Melton photo: Orderinchaos, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0). Music: 808 Lotus by Punch Deck (CC BY 3.0), via BreakingCopyright. #melbourne #sydney #population #australia #dataviz

The rich seats went teal. Australia's two richest electorates, Warringah and Wentworth ($2,870 a week), both elected teal independents in 2025. Typical household income in the seats each party won, and the share of homes owned outright: Teal independents (6 seats): $2,564 a week, 35% owned outright Greens (1 seat): $2,301 a week, 30% owned outright Labor (93 seats): $1,814 a week, 28% owned outright Liberal (18 seats): $1,770 a week, 34% owned outright LNP (Qld) (16 seats): $1,555 a week, 32% owned outright Other independents (4 seats): $1,450 a week, 34% owned outright Nationals (9 seats): $1,276 a week, 41% owned outright All seats: $1,768, 31% The Nationals hold the lowest-income seats, but the most homes owned outright. Lyne, on the NSW mid-north coast, is one of the poorest seats in the country and has the highest share owned outright: 47%. Teal: Bradfield, Curtin, Kooyong, Mackellar, Warringah, Wentworth. Other independents: Calare, Clark, Fowler, Indi. Incomes are from 2021; seats as won in 2025. 2026 Census estimates for every suburb at Microburbs: microburbs.com.au/research/census-2026 Data: AEC, ABS, via Microburbs. Photos: Wikimedia Commons. Music: Neon Underworld, Punch Deck (CC BY 3.0, via BreakingCopyright). #AusPol #Teals #Australia #Election2025

The property data we normally sell. Free, for one day. What would you build? The Microburbs Hackathon: one key opens more than 200 kinds of property and urban data for the whole City of Sydney council area, block by block. Live listings, past sales, valuations, council approvals, schools, crime, tree cover, transport and the Census. Build an app, a map or a video. You don't have to code: founders, agents, investors, designers, marketers, analysts and engineers are all welcome, in teams of three to six. Saturday 7 November 2026, one day. In the room at UTS Business School, near Sydney CBD, or online from anywhere in Australia. Run with Data Science Sydney. Prizes: the winning team gets $10,000 in Microburbs API credits, $2,000 cash, and a job at Microburbs for one of its members. The top three teams each get a free month at UTS Startups. Free to enter. Places are limited, so apply: microburbs.com.au/hackathon Data: Microburbs. Photos: Wikimedia Commons. Music: Elektronomia - Sky High [NCS Release], music provided by NoCopyrightSounds, ncs.io/skyhigh #Hackathon #Sydney #PropTech #OpenData #AI

Melbourne is now Australia's biggest city. You saw the headlines. Not quite. In April 2023 the headlines said Melbourne had overtaken Sydney. What changed was a line on a map: Melbourne's official urban area was redrawn to take in Melton, about 76,000 people. That put Melbourne 18,700 ahead (June 2021 count). Take Melton back out and it would still be 57,000 behind. On the whole metro area, Sydney is still bigger: 5,638,830 to 5,435,590 in mid 2025. The official projections have Melbourne passing it somewhere between 2032 and 2046, most likely around 2036. Real numbers for every suburb, Melton included: microburbs.com.au Source: Microburbs. Headlines: The Age, 9News, 7NEWS, ABC News, news.com.au, Sydney Morning Herald. Footage: Pexels. Melton photo: Orderinchaos, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0). Music: 808 Lotus by Punch Deck (CC BY 3.0), via BreakingCopyright. #melbourne #sydney #population #australia #dataviz

The rich seats went teal. Australia's two richest electorates, Warringah and Wentworth ($2,870 a week), both elected teal independents in 2025. Typical household income in the seats each party won, and the share of homes owned outright: Teal independents (6 seats): $2,564 a week, 35% owned outright Greens (1 seat): $2,301 a week, 30% owned outright Labor (93 seats): $1,814 a week, 28% owned outright Liberal (18 seats): $1,770 a week, 34% owned outright LNP (Qld) (16 seats): $1,555 a week, 32% owned outright Other independents (4 seats): $1,450 a week, 34% owned outright Nationals (9 seats): $1,276 a week, 41% owned outright All seats: $1,768, 31% The Nationals hold the lowest-income seats, but the most homes owned outright. Lyne, on the NSW mid-north coast, is one of the poorest seats in the country and has the highest share owned outright: 47%. Teal: Bradfield, Curtin, Kooyong, Mackellar, Warringah, Wentworth. Other independents: Calare, Clark, Fowler, Indi. Incomes are from 2021; seats as won in 2025. 2026 Census estimates for every suburb at Microburbs: microburbs.com.au/research/census-2026 Data: AEC, ABS, via Microburbs. Photos: Wikimedia Commons. Music: Neon Underworld, Punch Deck (CC BY 3.0, via BreakingCopyright). #AusPol #Teals #Australia #Election2025

The property data we normally sell. Free, for one day. What would you build? The Microburbs Hackathon: one key opens more than 200 kinds of property and urban data for the whole City of Sydney council area, block by block. Live listings, past sales, valuations, council approvals, schools, crime, tree cover, transport and the Census. Build an app, a map or a video. You don't have to code: founders, agents, investors, designers, marketers, analysts and engineers are all welcome, in teams of three to six. Saturday 7 November 2026, one day. In the room at UTS Business School, near Sydney CBD, or online from anywhere in Australia. Run with Data Science Sydney. Prizes: the winning team gets $10,000 in Microburbs API credits, $2,000 cash, and a job at Microburbs for one of its members. The top three teams each get a free month at UTS Startups. Free to enter. Places are limited, so apply: microburbs.com.au/hackathon Data: Microburbs. Photos: Wikimedia Commons. Music: Elektronomia - Sky High [NCS Release], music provided by NoCopyrightSounds, ncs.io/skyhigh #Hackathon #Sydney #PropTech #OpenData #AI

Melbourne is now Australia's biggest city. You saw the headlines. Not quite. In April 2023 the headlines said Melbourne had overtaken Sydney. What changed was a line on a map: Melbourne's official urban area was redrawn to take in Melton, about 76,000 people. That put Melbourne 18,700 ahead (June 2021 count). Take Melton back out and it would still be 57,000 behind. On the whole metro area, Sydney is still bigger: 5,638,830 to 5,435,590 in mid 2025. The official projections have Melbourne passing it somewhere between 2032 and 2046, most likely around 2036. Real numbers for every suburb, Melton included: microburbs.com.au Source: Microburbs. Headlines: The Age, 9News, 7NEWS, ABC News, news.com.au, Sydney Morning Herald. Footage: Pexels. Melton photo: Orderinchaos, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0). Music: 808 Lotus by Punch Deck (CC BY 3.0), via BreakingCopyright. #melbourne #sydney #population #australia #dataviz

The rich seats went teal. Australia's two richest electorates, Warringah and Wentworth ($2,870 a week), both elected teal independents in 2025. Typical household income in the seats each party won, and the share of homes owned outright: Teal independents (6 seats): $2,564 a week, 35% owned outright Greens (1 seat): $2,301 a week, 30% owned outright Labor (93 seats): $1,814 a week, 28% owned outright Liberal (18 seats): $1,770 a week, 34% owned outright LNP (Qld) (16 seats): $1,555 a week, 32% owned outright Other independents (4 seats): $1,450 a week, 34% owned outright Nationals (9 seats): $1,276 a week, 41% owned outright All seats: $1,768, 31% The Nationals hold the lowest-income seats, but the most homes owned outright. Lyne, on the NSW mid-north coast, is one of the poorest seats in the country and has the highest share owned outright: 47%. Teal: Bradfield, Curtin, Kooyong, Mackellar, Warringah, Wentworth. Other independents: Calare, Clark, Fowler, Indi. Incomes are from 2021; seats as won in 2025. 2026 Census estimates for every suburb at Microburbs: microburbs.com.au/research/census-2026 Data: AEC, ABS, via Microburbs. Photos: Wikimedia Commons. Music: Neon Underworld, Punch Deck (CC BY 3.0, via BreakingCopyright). #AusPol #Teals #Australia #Election2025

The property data we normally sell. Free, for one day. What would you build? The Microburbs Hackathon: one key opens more than 200 kinds of property and urban data for the whole City of Sydney council area, block by block. Live listings, past sales, valuations, council approvals, schools, crime, tree cover, transport and the Census. Build an app, a map or a video. You don't have to code: founders, agents, investors, designers, marketers, analysts and engineers are all welcome, in teams of three to six. Saturday 7 November 2026, one day. In the room at UTS Business School, near Sydney CBD, or online from anywhere in Australia. Run with Data Science Sydney. Prizes: the winning team gets $10,000 in Microburbs API credits, $2,000 cash, and a job at Microburbs for one of its members. The top three teams each get a free month at UTS Startups. Free to enter. Places are limited, so apply: microburbs.com.au/hackathon Data: Microburbs. Photos: Wikimedia Commons. Music: Elektronomia - Sky High [NCS Release], music provided by NoCopyrightSounds, ncs.io/skyhigh #Hackathon #Sydney #PropTech #OpenData #AI

Melbourne is now Australia's biggest city. You saw the headlines. Not quite. In April 2023 the headlines said Melbourne had overtaken Sydney. What changed was a line on a map: Melbourne's official urban area was redrawn to take in Melton, about 76,000 people. That put Melbourne 18,700 ahead (June 2021 count). Take Melton back out and it would still be 57,000 behind. On the whole metro area, Sydney is still bigger: 5,638,830 to 5,435,590 in mid 2025. The official projections have Melbourne passing it somewhere between 2032 and 2046, most likely around 2036. Real numbers for every suburb, Melton included: microburbs.com.au Source: Microburbs. Headlines: The Age, 9News, 7NEWS, ABC News, news.com.au, Sydney Morning Herald. Footage: Pexels. Melton photo: Orderinchaos, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0). Music: 808 Lotus by Punch Deck (CC BY 3.0), via BreakingCopyright. #melbourne #sydney #population #australia #dataviz

The rich seats went teal. Australia's two richest electorates, Warringah and Wentworth ($2,870 a week), both elected teal independents in 2025. Typical household income in the seats each party won, and the share of homes owned outright: Teal independents (6 seats): $2,564 a week, 35% owned outright Greens (1 seat): $2,301 a week, 30% owned outright Labor (93 seats): $1,814 a week, 28% owned outright Liberal (18 seats): $1,770 a week, 34% owned outright LNP (Qld) (16 seats): $1,555 a week, 32% owned outright Other independents (4 seats): $1,450 a week, 34% owned outright Nationals (9 seats): $1,276 a week, 41% owned outright All seats: $1,768, 31% The Nationals hold the lowest-income seats, but the most homes owned outright. Lyne, on the NSW mid-north coast, is one of the poorest seats in the country and has the highest share owned outright: 47%. Teal: Bradfield, Curtin, Kooyong, Mackellar, Warringah, Wentworth. Other independents: Calare, Clark, Fowler, Indi. Incomes are from 2021; seats as won in 2025. 2026 Census estimates for every suburb at Microburbs: microburbs.com.au/research/census-2026 Data: AEC, ABS, via Microburbs. Photos: Wikimedia Commons. Music: Neon Underworld, Punch Deck (CC BY 3.0, via BreakingCopyright). #AusPol #Teals #Australia #Election2025

The property data we normally sell. Free, for one day. What would you build? The Microburbs Hackathon: one key opens more than 200 kinds of property and urban data for the whole City of Sydney council area, block by block. Live listings, past sales, valuations, council approvals, schools, crime, tree cover, transport and the Census. Build an app, a map or a video. You don't have to code: founders, agents, investors, designers, marketers, analysts and engineers are all welcome, in teams of three to six. Saturday 7 November 2026, one day. In the room at UTS Business School, near Sydney CBD, or online from anywhere in Australia. Run with Data Science Sydney. Prizes: the winning team gets $10,000 in Microburbs API credits, $2,000 cash, and a job at Microburbs for one of its members. The top three teams each get a free month at UTS Startups. Free to enter. Places are limited, so apply: microburbs.com.au/hackathon Data: Microburbs. Photos: Wikimedia Commons. Music: Elektronomia - Sky High [NCS Release], music provided by NoCopyrightSounds, ncs.io/skyhigh #Hackathon #Sydney #PropTech #OpenData #AI

Melbourne is now Australia's biggest city. You saw the headlines. Not quite. In April 2023 the headlines said Melbourne had overtaken Sydney. What changed was a line on a map: Melbourne's official urban area was redrawn to take in Melton, about 76,000 people. That put Melbourne 18,700 ahead (June 2021 count). Take Melton back out and it would still be 57,000 behind. On the whole metro area, Sydney is still bigger: 5,638,830 to 5,435,590 in mid 2025. The official projections have Melbourne passing it somewhere between 2032 and 2046, most likely around 2036. Real numbers for every suburb, Melton included: microburbs.com.au Source: Microburbs. Headlines: The Age, 9News, 7NEWS, ABC News, news.com.au, Sydney Morning Herald. Footage: Pexels. Melton photo: Orderinchaos, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0). Music: 808 Lotus by Punch Deck (CC BY 3.0), via BreakingCopyright. #melbourne #sydney #population #australia #dataviz

The rich seats went teal. Australia's two richest electorates, Warringah and Wentworth ($2,870 a week), both elected teal independents in 2025. Typical household income in the seats each party won, and the share of homes owned outright: Teal independents (6 seats): $2,564 a week, 35% owned outright Greens (1 seat): $2,301 a week, 30% owned outright Labor (93 seats): $1,814 a week, 28% owned outright Liberal (18 seats): $1,770 a week, 34% owned outright LNP (Qld) (16 seats): $1,555 a week, 32% owned outright Other independents (4 seats): $1,450 a week, 34% owned outright Nationals (9 seats): $1,276 a week, 41% owned outright All seats: $1,768, 31% The Nationals hold the lowest-income seats, but the most homes owned outright. Lyne, on the NSW mid-north coast, is one of the poorest seats in the country and has the highest share owned outright: 47%. Teal: Bradfield, Curtin, Kooyong, Mackellar, Warringah, Wentworth. Other independents: Calare, Clark, Fowler, Indi. Incomes are from 2021; seats as won in 2025. 2026 Census estimates for every suburb at Microburbs: microburbs.com.au/research/census-2026 Data: AEC, ABS, via Microburbs. Photos: Wikimedia Commons. Music: Neon Underworld, Punch Deck (CC BY 3.0, via BreakingCopyright). #AusPol #Teals #Australia #Election2025

The property data we normally sell. Free, for one day. What would you build? The Microburbs Hackathon: one key opens more than 200 kinds of property and urban data for the whole City of Sydney council area, block by block. Live listings, past sales, valuations, council approvals, schools, crime, tree cover, transport and the Census. Build an app, a map or a video. You don't have to code: founders, agents, investors, designers, marketers, analysts and engineers are all welcome, in teams of three to six. Saturday 7 November 2026, one day. In the room at UTS Business School, near Sydney CBD, or online from anywhere in Australia. Run with Data Science Sydney. Prizes: the winning team gets $10,000 in Microburbs API credits, $2,000 cash, and a job at Microburbs for one of its members. The top three teams each get a free month at UTS Startups. Free to enter. Places are limited, so apply: microburbs.com.au/hackathon Data: Microburbs. Photos: Wikimedia Commons. Music: Elektronomia - Sky High [NCS Release], music provided by NoCopyrightSounds, ncs.io/skyhigh #Hackathon #Sydney #PropTech #OpenData #AI

Melbourne is now Australia's biggest city. You saw the headlines. Not quite. In April 2023 the headlines said Melbourne had overtaken Sydney. What changed was a line on a map: Melbourne's official urban area was redrawn to take in Melton, about 76,000 people. That put Melbourne 18,700 ahead (June 2021 count). Take Melton back out and it would still be 57,000 behind. On the whole metro area, Sydney is still bigger: 5,638,830 to 5,435,590 in mid 2025. The official projections have Melbourne passing it somewhere between 2032 and 2046, most likely around 2036. Real numbers for every suburb, Melton included: microburbs.com.au Source: Microburbs. Headlines: The Age, 9News, 7NEWS, ABC News, news.com.au, Sydney Morning Herald. Footage: Pexels. Melton photo: Orderinchaos, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0). Music: 808 Lotus by Punch Deck (CC BY 3.0), via BreakingCopyright. #melbourne #sydney #population #australia #dataviz

The rich seats went teal. Australia's two richest electorates, Warringah and Wentworth ($2,870 a week), both elected teal independents in 2025. Typical household income in the seats each party won, and the share of homes owned outright: Teal independents (6 seats): $2,564 a week, 35% owned outright Greens (1 seat): $2,301 a week, 30% owned outright Labor (93 seats): $1,814 a week, 28% owned outright Liberal (18 seats): $1,770 a week, 34% owned outright LNP (Qld) (16 seats): $1,555 a week, 32% owned outright Other independents (4 seats): $1,450 a week, 34% owned outright Nationals (9 seats): $1,276 a week, 41% owned outright All seats: $1,768, 31% The Nationals hold the lowest-income seats, but the most homes owned outright. Lyne, on the NSW mid-north coast, is one of the poorest seats in the country and has the highest share owned outright: 47%. Teal: Bradfield, Curtin, Kooyong, Mackellar, Warringah, Wentworth. Other independents: Calare, Clark, Fowler, Indi. Incomes are from 2021; seats as won in 2025. 2026 Census estimates for every suburb at Microburbs: microburbs.com.au/research/census-2026 Data: AEC, ABS, via Microburbs. Photos: Wikimedia Commons. Music: Neon Underworld, Punch Deck (CC BY 3.0, via BreakingCopyright). #AusPol #Teals #Australia #Election2025

The property data we normally sell. Free, for one day. What would you build? The Microburbs Hackathon: one key opens more than 200 kinds of property and urban data for the whole City of Sydney council area, block by block. Live listings, past sales, valuations, council approvals, schools, crime, tree cover, transport and the Census. Build an app, a map or a video. You don't have to code: founders, agents, investors, designers, marketers, analysts and engineers are all welcome, in teams of three to six. Saturday 7 November 2026, one day. In the room at UTS Business School, near Sydney CBD, or online from anywhere in Australia. Run with Data Science Sydney. Prizes: the winning team gets $10,000 in Microburbs API credits, $2,000 cash, and a job at Microburbs for one of its members. The top three teams each get a free month at UTS Startups. Free to enter. Places are limited, so apply: microburbs.com.au/hackathon Data: Microburbs. Photos: Wikimedia Commons. Music: Elektronomia - Sky High [NCS Release], music provided by NoCopyrightSounds, ncs.io/skyhigh #Hackathon #Sydney #PropTech #OpenData #AI

Melbourne is now Australia's biggest city. You saw the headlines. Not quite. In April 2023 the headlines said Melbourne had overtaken Sydney. What changed was a line on a map: Melbourne's official urban area was redrawn to take in Melton, about 76,000 people. That put Melbourne 18,700 ahead (June 2021 count). Take Melton back out and it would still be 57,000 behind. On the whole metro area, Sydney is still bigger: 5,638,830 to 5,435,590 in mid 2025. The official projections have Melbourne passing it somewhere between 2032 and 2046, most likely around 2036. Real numbers for every suburb, Melton included: microburbs.com.au Source: Microburbs. Headlines: The Age, 9News, 7NEWS, ABC News, news.com.au, Sydney Morning Herald. Footage: Pexels. Melton photo: Orderinchaos, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0). Music: 808 Lotus by Punch Deck (CC BY 3.0), via BreakingCopyright. #melbourne #sydney #population #australia #dataviz

The rich seats went teal. Australia's two richest electorates, Warringah and Wentworth ($2,870 a week), both elected teal independents in 2025. Typical household income in the seats each party won, and the share of homes owned outright: Teal independents (6 seats): $2,564 a week, 35% owned outright Greens (1 seat): $2,301 a week, 30% owned outright Labor (93 seats): $1,814 a week, 28% owned outright Liberal (18 seats): $1,770 a week, 34% owned outright LNP (Qld) (16 seats): $1,555 a week, 32% owned outright Other independents (4 seats): $1,450 a week, 34% owned outright Nationals (9 seats): $1,276 a week, 41% owned outright All seats: $1,768, 31% The Nationals hold the lowest-income seats, but the most homes owned outright. Lyne, on the NSW mid-north coast, is one of the poorest seats in the country and has the highest share owned outright: 47%. Teal: Bradfield, Curtin, Kooyong, Mackellar, Warringah, Wentworth. Other independents: Calare, Clark, Fowler, Indi. Incomes are from 2021; seats as won in 2025. 2026 Census estimates for every suburb at Microburbs: microburbs.com.au/research/census-2026 Data: AEC, ABS, via Microburbs. Photos: Wikimedia Commons. Music: Neon Underworld, Punch Deck (CC BY 3.0, via BreakingCopyright). #AusPol #Teals #Australia #Election2025

The property data we normally sell. Free, for one day. What would you build? The Microburbs Hackathon: one key opens more than 200 kinds of property and urban data for the whole City of Sydney council area, block by block. Live listings, past sales, valuations, council approvals, schools, crime, tree cover, transport and the Census. Build an app, a map or a video. You don't have to code: founders, agents, investors, designers, marketers, analysts and engineers are all welcome, in teams of three to six. Saturday 7 November 2026, one day. In the room at UTS Business School, near Sydney CBD, or online from anywhere in Australia. Run with Data Science Sydney. Prizes: the winning team gets $10,000 in Microburbs API credits, $2,000 cash, and a job at Microburbs for one of its members. The top three teams each get a free month at UTS Startups. Free to enter. Places are limited, so apply: microburbs.com.au/hackathon Data: Microburbs. Photos: Wikimedia Commons. Music: Elektronomia - Sky High [NCS Release], music provided by NoCopyrightSounds, ncs.io/skyhigh #Hackathon #Sydney #PropTech #OpenData #AI

Melbourne is now Australia's biggest city. You saw the headlines. Not quite. In April 2023 the headlines said Melbourne had overtaken Sydney. What changed was a line on a map: Melbourne's official urban area was redrawn to take in Melton, about 76,000 people. That put Melbourne 18,700 ahead (June 2021 count). Take Melton back out and it would still be 57,000 behind. On the whole metro area, Sydney is still bigger: 5,638,830 to 5,435,590 in mid 2025. The official projections have Melbourne passing it somewhere between 2032 and 2046, most likely around 2036. Real numbers for every suburb, Melton included: microburbs.com.au Source: Microburbs. Headlines: The Age, 9News, 7NEWS, ABC News, news.com.au, Sydney Morning Herald. Footage: Pexels. Melton photo: Orderinchaos, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0). Music: 808 Lotus by Punch Deck (CC BY 3.0), via BreakingCopyright. #melbourne #sydney #population #australia #dataviz

The rich seats went teal. Australia's two richest electorates, Warringah and Wentworth ($2,870 a week), both elected teal independents in 2025. Typical household income in the seats each party won, and the share of homes owned outright: Teal independents (6 seats): $2,564 a week, 35% owned outright Greens (1 seat): $2,301 a week, 30% owned outright Labor (93 seats): $1,814 a week, 28% owned outright Liberal (18 seats): $1,770 a week, 34% owned outright LNP (Qld) (16 seats): $1,555 a week, 32% owned outright Other independents (4 seats): $1,450 a week, 34% owned outright Nationals (9 seats): $1,276 a week, 41% owned outright All seats: $1,768, 31% The Nationals hold the lowest-income seats, but the most homes owned outright. Lyne, on the NSW mid-north coast, is one of the poorest seats in the country and has the highest share owned outright: 47%. Teal: Bradfield, Curtin, Kooyong, Mackellar, Warringah, Wentworth. Other independents: Calare, Clark, Fowler, Indi. Incomes are from 2021; seats as won in 2025. 2026 Census estimates for every suburb at Microburbs: microburbs.com.au/research/census-2026 Data: AEC, ABS, via Microburbs. Photos: Wikimedia Commons. Music: Neon Underworld, Punch Deck (CC BY 3.0, via BreakingCopyright). #AusPol #Teals #Australia #Election2025

The property data we normally sell. Free, for one day. What would you build? The Microburbs Hackathon: one key opens more than 200 kinds of property and urban data for the whole City of Sydney council area, block by block. Live listings, past sales, valuations, council approvals, schools, crime, tree cover, transport and the Census. Build an app, a map or a video. You don't have to code: founders, agents, investors, designers, marketers, analysts and engineers are all welcome, in teams of three to six. Saturday 7 November 2026, one day. In the room at UTS Business School, near Sydney CBD, or online from anywhere in Australia. Run with Data Science Sydney. Prizes: the winning team gets $10,000 in Microburbs API credits, $2,000 cash, and a job at Microburbs for one of its members. The top three teams each get a free month at UTS Startups. Free to enter. Places are limited, so apply: microburbs.com.au/hackathon Data: Microburbs. Photos: Wikimedia Commons. Music: Elektronomia - Sky High [NCS Release], music provided by NoCopyrightSounds, ncs.io/skyhigh #Hackathon #Sydney #PropTech #OpenData #AI

Melbourne is now Australia's biggest city. You saw the headlines. Not quite. In April 2023 the headlines said Melbourne had overtaken Sydney. What changed was a line on a map: Melbourne's official urban area was redrawn to take in Melton, about 76,000 people. That put Melbourne 18,700 ahead (June 2021 count). Take Melton back out and it would still be 57,000 behind. On the whole metro area, Sydney is still bigger: 5,638,830 to 5,435,590 in mid 2025. The official projections have Melbourne passing it somewhere between 2032 and 2046, most likely around 2036. Real numbers for every suburb, Melton included: microburbs.com.au Source: Microburbs. Headlines: The Age, 9News, 7NEWS, ABC News, news.com.au, Sydney Morning Herald. Footage: Pexels. Melton photo: Orderinchaos, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0). Music: 808 Lotus by Punch Deck (CC BY 3.0), via BreakingCopyright. #melbourne #sydney #population #australia #dataviz

The rich seats went teal. Australia's two richest electorates, Warringah and Wentworth ($2,870 a week), both elected teal independents in 2025. Typical household income in the seats each party won, and the share of homes owned outright: Teal independents (6 seats): $2,564 a week, 35% owned outright Greens (1 seat): $2,301 a week, 30% owned outright Labor (93 seats): $1,814 a week, 28% owned outright Liberal (18 seats): $1,770 a week, 34% owned outright LNP (Qld) (16 seats): $1,555 a week, 32% owned outright Other independents (4 seats): $1,450 a week, 34% owned outright Nationals (9 seats): $1,276 a week, 41% owned outright All seats: $1,768, 31% The Nationals hold the lowest-income seats, but the most homes owned outright. Lyne, on the NSW mid-north coast, is one of the poorest seats in the country and has the highest share owned outright: 47%. Teal: Bradfield, Curtin, Kooyong, Mackellar, Warringah, Wentworth. Other independents: Calare, Clark, Fowler, Indi. Incomes are from 2021; seats as won in 2025. 2026 Census estimates for every suburb at Microburbs: microburbs.com.au/research/census-2026 Data: AEC, ABS, via Microburbs. Photos: Wikimedia Commons. Music: Neon Underworld, Punch Deck (CC BY 3.0, via BreakingCopyright). #AusPol #Teals #Australia #Election2025

The property data we normally sell. Free, for one day. What would you build? The Microburbs Hackathon: one key opens more than 200 kinds of property and urban data for the whole City of Sydney council area, block by block. Live listings, past sales, valuations, council approvals, schools, crime, tree cover, transport and the Census. Build an app, a map or a video. You don't have to code: founders, agents, investors, designers, marketers, analysts and engineers are all welcome, in teams of three to six. Saturday 7 November 2026, one day. In the room at UTS Business School, near Sydney CBD, or online from anywhere in Australia. Run with Data Science Sydney. Prizes: the winning team gets $10,000 in Microburbs API credits, $2,000 cash, and a job at Microburbs for one of its members. The top three teams each get a free month at UTS Startups. Free to enter. Places are limited, so apply: microburbs.com.au/hackathon Data: Microburbs. Photos: Wikimedia Commons. Music: Elektronomia - Sky High [NCS Release], music provided by NoCopyrightSounds, ncs.io/skyhigh #Hackathon #Sydney #PropTech #OpenData #AI

Melbourne is now Australia's biggest city. You saw the headlines. Not quite. In April 2023 the headlines said Melbourne had overtaken Sydney. What changed was a line on a map: Melbourne's official urban area was redrawn to take in Melton, about 76,000 people. That put Melbourne 18,700 ahead (June 2021 count). Take Melton back out and it would still be 57,000 behind. On the whole metro area, Sydney is still bigger: 5,638,830 to 5,435,590 in mid 2025. The official projections have Melbourne passing it somewhere between 2032 and 2046, most likely around 2036. Real numbers for every suburb, Melton included: microburbs.com.au Source: Microburbs. Headlines: The Age, 9News, 7NEWS, ABC News, news.com.au, Sydney Morning Herald. Footage: Pexels. Melton photo: Orderinchaos, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0). Music: 808 Lotus by Punch Deck (CC BY 3.0), via BreakingCopyright. #melbourne #sydney #population #australia #dataviz

The rich seats went teal. Australia's two richest electorates, Warringah and Wentworth ($2,870 a week), both elected teal independents in 2025. Typical household income in the seats each party won, and the share of homes owned outright: Teal independents (6 seats): $2,564 a week, 35% owned outright Greens (1 seat): $2,301 a week, 30% owned outright Labor (93 seats): $1,814 a week, 28% owned outright Liberal (18 seats): $1,770 a week, 34% owned outright LNP (Qld) (16 seats): $1,555 a week, 32% owned outright Other independents (4 seats): $1,450 a week, 34% owned outright Nationals (9 seats): $1,276 a week, 41% owned outright All seats: $1,768, 31% The Nationals hold the lowest-income seats, but the most homes owned outright. Lyne, on the NSW mid-north coast, is one of the poorest seats in the country and has the highest share owned outright: 47%. Teal: Bradfield, Curtin, Kooyong, Mackellar, Warringah, Wentworth. Other independents: Calare, Clark, Fowler, Indi. Incomes are from 2021; seats as won in 2025. 2026 Census estimates for every suburb at Microburbs: microburbs.com.au/research/census-2026 Data: AEC, ABS, via Microburbs. Photos: Wikimedia Commons. Music: Neon Underworld, Punch Deck (CC BY 3.0, via BreakingCopyright). #AusPol #Teals #Australia #Election2025

The property data we normally sell. Free, for one day. What would you build? The Microburbs Hackathon: one key opens more than 200 kinds of property and urban data for the whole City of Sydney council area, block by block. Live listings, past sales, valuations, council approvals, schools, crime, tree cover, transport and the Census. Build an app, a map or a video. You don't have to code: founders, agents, investors, designers, marketers, analysts and engineers are all welcome, in teams of three to six. Saturday 7 November 2026, one day. In the room at UTS Business School, near Sydney CBD, or online from anywhere in Australia. Run with Data Science Sydney. Prizes: the winning team gets $10,000 in Microburbs API credits, $2,000 cash, and a job at Microburbs for one of its members. The top three teams each get a free month at UTS Startups. Free to enter. Places are limited, so apply: microburbs.com.au/hackathon Data: Microburbs. Photos: Wikimedia Commons. Music: Elektronomia - Sky High [NCS Release], music provided by NoCopyrightSounds, ncs.io/skyhigh #Hackathon #Sydney #PropTech #OpenData #AI

Melbourne is now Australia's biggest city. You saw the headlines. Not quite. In April 2023 the headlines said Melbourne had overtaken Sydney. What changed was a line on a map: Melbourne's official urban area was redrawn to take in Melton, about 76,000 people. That put Melbourne 18,700 ahead (June 2021 count). Take Melton back out and it would still be 57,000 behind. On the whole metro area, Sydney is still bigger: 5,638,830 to 5,435,590 in mid 2025. The official projections have Melbourne passing it somewhere between 2032 and 2046, most likely around 2036. Real numbers for every suburb, Melton included: microburbs.com.au Source: Microburbs. Headlines: The Age, 9News, 7NEWS, ABC News, news.com.au, Sydney Morning Herald. Footage: Pexels. Melton photo: Orderinchaos, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0). Music: 808 Lotus by Punch Deck (CC BY 3.0), via BreakingCopyright. #melbourne #sydney #population #australia #dataviz

The rich seats went teal. Australia's two richest electorates, Warringah and Wentworth ($2,870 a week), both elected teal independents in 2025. Typical household income in the seats each party won, and the share of homes owned outright: Teal independents (6 seats): $2,564 a week, 35% owned outright Greens (1 seat): $2,301 a week, 30% owned outright Labor (93 seats): $1,814 a week, 28% owned outright Liberal (18 seats): $1,770 a week, 34% owned outright LNP (Qld) (16 seats): $1,555 a week, 32% owned outright Other independents (4 seats): $1,450 a week, 34% owned outright Nationals (9 seats): $1,276 a week, 41% owned outright All seats: $1,768, 31% The Nationals hold the lowest-income seats, but the most homes owned outright. Lyne, on the NSW mid-north coast, is one of the poorest seats in the country and has the highest share owned outright: 47%. Teal: Bradfield, Curtin, Kooyong, Mackellar, Warringah, Wentworth. Other independents: Calare, Clark, Fowler, Indi. Incomes are from 2021; seats as won in 2025. 2026 Census estimates for every suburb at Microburbs: microburbs.com.au/research/census-2026 Data: AEC, ABS, via Microburbs. Photos: Wikimedia Commons. Music: Neon Underworld, Punch Deck (CC BY 3.0, via BreakingCopyright). #AusPol #Teals #Australia #Election2025

The property data we normally sell. Free, for one day. What would you build? The Microburbs Hackathon: one key opens more than 200 kinds of property and urban data for the whole City of Sydney council area, block by block. Live listings, past sales, valuations, council approvals, schools, crime, tree cover, transport and the Census. Build an app, a map or a video. You don't have to code: founders, agents, investors, designers, marketers, analysts and engineers are all welcome, in teams of three to six. Saturday 7 November 2026, one day. In the room at UTS Business School, near Sydney CBD, or online from anywhere in Australia. Run with Data Science Sydney. Prizes: the winning team gets $10,000 in Microburbs API credits, $2,000 cash, and a job at Microburbs for one of its members. The top three teams each get a free month at UTS Startups. Free to enter. Places are limited, so apply: microburbs.com.au/hackathon Data: Microburbs. Photos: Wikimedia Commons. Music: Elektronomia - Sky High [NCS Release], music provided by NoCopyrightSounds, ncs.io/skyhigh #Hackathon #Sydney #PropTech #OpenData #AI

Melbourne is now Australia's biggest city. You saw the headlines. Not quite. In April 2023 the headlines said Melbourne had overtaken Sydney. What changed was a line on a map: Melbourne's official urban area was redrawn to take in Melton, about 76,000 people. That put Melbourne 18,700 ahead (June 2021 count). Take Melton back out and it would still be 57,000 behind. On the whole metro area, Sydney is still bigger: 5,638,830 to 5,435,590 in mid 2025. The official projections have Melbourne passing it somewhere between 2032 and 2046, most likely around 2036. Real numbers for every suburb, Melton included: microburbs.com.au Source: Microburbs. Headlines: The Age, 9News, 7NEWS, ABC News, news.com.au, Sydney Morning Herald. Footage: Pexels. Melton photo: Orderinchaos, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0). Music: 808 Lotus by Punch Deck (CC BY 3.0), via BreakingCopyright. #melbourne #sydney #population #australia #dataviz

The rich seats went teal. Australia's two richest electorates, Warringah and Wentworth ($2,870 a week), both elected teal independents in 2025. Typical household income in the seats each party won, and the share of homes owned outright: Teal independents (6 seats): $2,564 a week, 35% owned outright Greens (1 seat): $2,301 a week, 30% owned outright Labor (93 seats): $1,814 a week, 28% owned outright Liberal (18 seats): $1,770 a week, 34% owned outright LNP (Qld) (16 seats): $1,555 a week, 32% owned outright Other independents (4 seats): $1,450 a week, 34% owned outright Nationals (9 seats): $1,276 a week, 41% owned outright All seats: $1,768, 31% The Nationals hold the lowest-income seats, but the most homes owned outright. Lyne, on the NSW mid-north coast, is one of the poorest seats in the country and has the highest share owned outright: 47%. Teal: Bradfield, Curtin, Kooyong, Mackellar, Warringah, Wentworth. Other independents: Calare, Clark, Fowler, Indi. Incomes are from 2021; seats as won in 2025. 2026 Census estimates for every suburb at Microburbs: microburbs.com.au/research/census-2026 Data: AEC, ABS, via Microburbs. Photos: Wikimedia Commons. Music: Neon Underworld, Punch Deck (CC BY 3.0, via BreakingCopyright). #AusPol #Teals #Australia #Election2025

The property data we normally sell. Free, for one day. What would you build? The Microburbs Hackathon: one key opens more than 200 kinds of property and urban data for the whole City of Sydney council area, block by block. Live listings, past sales, valuations, council approvals, schools, crime, tree cover, transport and the Census. Build an app, a map or a video. You don't have to code: founders, agents, investors, designers, marketers, analysts and engineers are all welcome, in teams of three to six. Saturday 7 November 2026, one day. In the room at UTS Business School, near Sydney CBD, or online from anywhere in Australia. Run with Data Science Sydney. Prizes: the winning team gets $10,000 in Microburbs API credits, $2,000 cash, and a job at Microburbs for one of its members. The top three teams each get a free month at UTS Startups. Free to enter. Places are limited, so apply: microburbs.com.au/hackathon Data: Microburbs. Photos: Wikimedia Commons. Music: Elektronomia - Sky High [NCS Release], music provided by NoCopyrightSounds, ncs.io/skyhigh #Hackathon #Sydney #PropTech #OpenData #AI

Melbourne is now Australia's biggest city. You saw the headlines. Not quite. In April 2023 the headlines said Melbourne had overtaken Sydney. What changed was a line on a map: Melbourne's official urban area was redrawn to take in Melton, about 76,000 people. That put Melbourne 18,700 ahead (June 2021 count). Take Melton back out and it would still be 57,000 behind. On the whole metro area, Sydney is still bigger: 5,638,830 to 5,435,590 in mid 2025. The official projections have Melbourne passing it somewhere between 2032 and 2046, most likely around 2036. Real numbers for every suburb, Melton included: microburbs.com.au Source: Microburbs. Headlines: The Age, 9News, 7NEWS, ABC News, news.com.au, Sydney Morning Herald. Footage: Pexels. Melton photo: Orderinchaos, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0). Music: 808 Lotus by Punch Deck (CC BY 3.0), via BreakingCopyright. #melbourne #sydney #population #australia #dataviz

The rich seats went teal. Australia's two richest electorates, Warringah and Wentworth ($2,870 a week), both elected teal independents in 2025. Typical household income in the seats each party won, and the share of homes owned outright: Teal independents (6 seats): $2,564 a week, 35% owned outright Greens (1 seat): $2,301 a week, 30% owned outright Labor (93 seats): $1,814 a week, 28% owned outright Liberal (18 seats): $1,770 a week, 34% owned outright LNP (Qld) (16 seats): $1,555 a week, 32% owned outright Other independents (4 seats): $1,450 a week, 34% owned outright Nationals (9 seats): $1,276 a week, 41% owned outright All seats: $1,768, 31% The Nationals hold the lowest-income seats, but the most homes owned outright. Lyne, on the NSW mid-north coast, is one of the poorest seats in the country and has the highest share owned outright: 47%. Teal: Bradfield, Curtin, Kooyong, Mackellar, Warringah, Wentworth. Other independents: Calare, Clark, Fowler, Indi. Incomes are from 2021; seats as won in 2025. 2026 Census estimates for every suburb at Microburbs: microburbs.com.au/research/census-2026 Data: AEC, ABS, via Microburbs. Photos: Wikimedia Commons. Music: Neon Underworld, Punch Deck (CC BY 3.0, via BreakingCopyright). #AusPol #Teals #Australia #Election2025