Information Sheet
BCARR City Rings Classification
The fact sheet below provides a guide to the purpose and use of this statistical geography. The rings geography breaks Australia’s five largest capital cities into three concentric zones and can be used to analyse patterns in population, jobs, connectivity and access to services. This fact sheet provides a guide to understanding and using the classification.
A concordance file to help users mathematically convert 2021 Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) Statistical Area 2 (SA2) data to BCARR City Rings for Australia's five largest capital cities and a shapefile for mapping are available below:
