Urban Centre and Locality

Identifying and definitional attributes
Metadata item type:	Glossary Item
Synonymous names:	UCL
METEOR identifier:	695681
Registration status:	Health, Standard 06/09/2018 Housing assistance, Standard 10/05/2019
Definition:	An area of concentrated urban development with a population of 200 people or more.

Collection and usage attributes
Comments:	The Urban Centres and Localities (UCLs) are designed for the analysis of statistical data, in particular data from the Census of Population and Housing. The 200 minimum population size is set to enable users to access cross classified Census data for these areas without the resulting counts becoming too small for use.
Source and reference attributes
Submitting organisation:	Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Reference documents:	ABS (Australian Bureau of Statistics) 2017. Australian Statistical Geography Standard (ASGS): Volume 4—Significant Urban Areas, Urban Centres and Localities, Section of State, July 2016. ABS cat. no. 1270.0.55.004. Canberra: ABS.
Relational attributes
Related metadata references:	Supersedes Locality Commonwealth Department of Health, Qualified 23/09/2015 Health, Superseded 06/09/2018 Supersedes Urban Centre Commonwealth Department of Health, Qualified 23/09/2015 Disability, Standard 13/08/2015 Health, Superseded 06/09/2018 Housing assistance, Standard 10/05/2019
Metadata items which use this glossary item:	National Bowel Cancer Screening Program NBEDS 2018–19 Health, Superseded 12/12/2018 National Bowel Cancer Screening Program NBEDS 2019–20 Health, Superseded 16/01/2020 National Bowel Cancer Screening Program NBEDS 2020–21 Health, Superseded 05/02/2021 National Bowel Cancer Screening Program NBEDS 2021–22 Health, Superseded 17/12/2021 National Bowel Cancer Screening Program NBEDS 2022–23 Health, Standard 17/12/2021 Remoteness classification (ASGS-RA) N Health, Standard 06/09/2018 Housing assistance, Standard 10/05/2019