When I am not writing columns on demographics, I am travelling the country presenting on demographics.
The range of conferences is huge and pushes me to view the world through the perspective of all types of industries and businesses.
In preparing my presentations I often go down rabbit holes and create findings that I don’t end up using on stage.
As a good German, I love recycling – nothing goes to waste on my watch. So this week I cooked up some leftovers of a recent presentation given a conference for furniture removalists.
We are talking about population turnover. What share of the population in a given location lived there one year ago, lived there five years ago?
You can see why furniture removalists might be interested in that. A suburb with high population turnover is more lucrative than a suburb where everyone stays put and hardly anyone moves in or out.
Who, besides furniture removalists, might be interested in this data? Real estate agents and councils are obvious candidates. Place-makers would also be keen to learn about this.
How do you create a local identity in a place where the population completely turns over every few years?
New residents need to be educated about local customs, be it something mundane like how and when garbage is collected, or something more serious like bushfire emergency procedures.
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