Demographic profiling of tropical rivers

An early output from the People and economy project was a report on the changing nature of people living in and visiting tropical river catchments from Broome to the tip of Cape York (the TRaCK region or "region").

Demographic changes were examined in terms of how mobile people were, how long they had lived in a place, their age, gender and Indigeneity. Analysis was also done to explore whether trends observed in the past ten or fifteen years are likely to be carried forward in the next ten or fifteen years, and how this might influence the population makeup well into the 21st century.

From a tourism perspective numbers and types of visitors were profiled along with the nature of the trips common to the region.

Catchment profiles are available for the TRaCK focus catchments, they provide a useful snapshot of key demographic characteristics of the communities in each catchment.

Follow the links below to view individual DEMOGRAPHIC catchment profiles.  Please use the Project Contacts to stay in touch with this project.