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BCARR City Rings Classification

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This fact sheet provides a guide to the purpose and use of the BCARR City Rings Classification. The rings statistical geography breaks Australia’s five largest capital cities into three concentric zones and can be used to analyse patterns in population, jobs, connectivity and access to services. This release includes an excel correspondence and shapefile.