Where to plant

Every suburb in Australia ranked by how much the population is moving in — the last five years and the official forecast — with a small weight for whether there are enough people to sustain a plant. How near a ACC church is carries no weight; the church columns are context.

10 suburbs match

Showing growth suburbs only — suburbs that gained 2,500+ people between the 2018 and 2023 ACS windows, are forecast to, or grew 25%+ while adding 1,200+ people. Toggle off to search every suburb. Forecast to 2036 is the official projection (2026–2036) from Georgia’s Office of Planning and Budget (2026 series) and Tennessee’s Boyd Center at UT (2022 series). Both publish by SA3 corridor, so each SA3 corridor’s decade change is apportioned to its suburbs by population share. A ~ marks any suburb still on our modeled trend.

RanksuburbSA3 corridorStatePopulationGrowth 5 yr%Forecast to 2036%Churches ≤20 kmNearestScore
15Werribee - WestWyndhamVictoria30,413+12,901+73.7%+22,650+61.5%250.9 km80—
35Tarneit (West) - Mount CottrellWyndhamVictoria17,068+11,749+220.9%+20,515+89.6%410.5 km78—
40Tarneit - NorthWyndhamVictoria13,406+9,398+234.5%+18,999+96.5%452.0 km77—
45Wyndham Vale - NorthWyndhamVictoria13,052+6,565+101.2%+16,239+96.4%283.3 km77—
130Truganina - NorthWyndhamVictoria14,210+8,175+135.5%+4,665+28.3%480.2 km72—
132Manor Lakes - QuandongWyndhamVictoria12,519+3,327+36.2%+12,364+86.4%253.3 km72—
392Werribee - SouthWyndhamVictoria17,866+2,844+18.9%+2,080+11.5%292.3 km64—
428Point Cook - SouthWyndhamVictoria20,490+1,443+7.6%+5,900+29.5%391.7 km64—
607Point Cook - EastWyndhamVictoria21,396+3,502+19.6%+660+3.2%401.5 km61—
819Truganina - South EastWyndhamVictoria10,633+2,411+29.3%+638+6.0%470.9 km59—