Inner suburbs

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Inner suburbs can refer to neighbourhoods of the inner city in the Commonwealth countries (especially Australia and New Zealand), or to the innermost ring of suburbs that lie outside the city limits, as in the United States.

In Australia, the inner suburbs are the densest residential areas of the city, and generally consist of older, established housing, multi-storey apartments, and dense commercial and industrial development; the outer suburbs are generally newer and more residential. Traditionally, inner suburbs have been home to the working class, but as manufacturing jobs have migrated to the periphery of cities, property prices have increased and many of the inner suburbs have become gentrified.

In the United States, inner suburbs (sometimes known as "first-ring" suburbs) are the older, more populous communities of a metropolitan area with histories that significantly predate those of their suburban or exurban counterparts.

See also

• List of inner suburbs in the United States