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Evidence platform

CityCompass

Understand how your community and economy are changing, and what that means for future liveability.

Colourful houses of a residential area in Hobart, Tasmania
Hobart, Tasmania

Coverage

Every Australian council: LGA and suburb, with state benchmarks

Built on

ABS Census, building approvals, official population forecasts, economic and workforce data

Updates

New ABS data added as soon as it is published

Pricing

Based on ERP (Estimated Resident Population)

Communities change between censuses.

CityCompass brings population, workforce and economic change into a continuing evidence layer for councils. It shows not only what is changing, but where emerging pressures and opportunities could alter future liveability.

Strategies are written at a point in time; the conditions they rest on are not. When demographic, housing and economic patterns stay visible together, a council can see pressure building in a neighbourhood before it becomes a crisis in a budget paper.

Questions CityCompass answers

  • 01Which population and economic conditions are changing?
  • 02Where are pressures and opportunities emerging within the municipality or region?
  • 03How do demographic, workforce, housing and economic patterns interact?
  • 04What evidence should remain visible after a strategy or project ends?

What it covers

  • 01Age, housing, income, education, culture and employment.
  • 02Building approvals, unemployment, businesses, workforce and industry structure.
  • 03Forecast population by age.
  • 04Household and dwelling projections.

One of two evidence platforms

Proprietary infrastructure beneath our consulting, and yours to keep watching.

With Spendmapp, CityCompass is one of Geografia's two evidence platforms: it strengthens our consulting work, and gives clients a way to keep observing their community and economy after an individual project ends.

A leafy suburban street of single-storey homes in Melbourne

Keep your community's change visible

Talk to us about CityCompass