Section of State

Within a State or Territory, each section of State represents an aggregation of non-contiguous geographic areas o a particular urban type, with the rural balance constituting another section of State. Each CD is allocated an appropriate Section of State code. The sections of State within each State and Territory are represented by the following one digit numeric code:

0 Major Urban - all urban centres with a population of 100,000 and over;

1 Other Urban - all urban centres with a population of 1,000 to 99,999 and known holiday resorts of less population if they contain 250 or more dwellings of which at least 100 are occupied on census night;

2 Locality - all population clusters of 200 to 999 persons; and

3 Rural Balance - the remainder of the State/ Territory.

4 Off-Shore and Migratory - persons who on census night were:

on off-shore oil rigs, drilling platforms and the like;
on board vessels in and between Australian ports; or
on board long-distance trains, buses or aircraft.

The above section of State categories can be used in conjunction with other CD-based ASGC geographic areas show section of State components within, say, statistical subdivisions or statistical divisions.