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BITRE | Report 115Figure 6.1 Regional airports by airport classification, 2005Number of airportsPercentage of totalpassenger movementsTotal number of passengermovements (millions)Average number of passengermovements (thousands)Rural811.160.203.04Small384.490.7920.68Medium3116.052.8190.60Large2078.313.70684.98Source:BITRE time series estimates.6.2 Selected socio-demographic distributionsbased on airport classificationDemographyAs in Chapter 4, the population and the UC/L numbers were stratified into fourpopulation sizes (Table 6.1). The smallest population size consists of those who livedin UC/Ls with less than 2000 people. This population size is of particular interest asthey are considered to be ’medium to small communities’.Table 6.1 presents the distribution of population in UC/Ls by population size. Of allthe population who lived in UC/Ls, 5.3 per cent had a population size of less than2000 people, 11.8 per cent had a population size between 2000 and 20 000 people,10.4 per cent had a population size between 20 000 and 100 000 people and 72.57 percent had a population size of more than 100 000 people.Table 6.1 Distribution of population in UC/Ls, by population size, 2005Population size Less than 2000 2000–19 999 20 000–99 999 100 000+ TotalPersons 894 002 2 000 653 1 772 086 12 345 561 17 012 302Percentage 5.26 11.76 10.42 72.57 100.00Source:BITRE time series estimates.Table 6.2 presents the distribution of UC/Ls by population size. It is observed that1285 UC/Ls (75.2 per cent) were in the population size of less than 2000 people; 364UC/Ls (21.3 per cent) were in the population size 2000 to 20 000 people; 46 UC/Ls(2.7 per cent) were in the population size between 20 000 and 100 000 people; andonly 14 UC/Ls (0.82 per cent) were in a population size of more than 100 000 people.164