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Future of Cities & Regions

What does a multicultural community actually look like, suburb by suburb?

Client

Western Australia's Office of Multicultural Interests

Place

Western Australia and Queensland

Practice

Future of Cities & Regions

Services

Forecasting our Futures

Year

2017–2020

The question

Two state governments needed multicultural community data made visible to the public and usable by their own staff, not locked in a report.

What we observed

Two publicly accessible websites were built to visualise the demographic profile of multicultural communities: one for Western Australia, launched in 2017, and one for Queensland, launched in 2020. Each runs on an open-source backend with API access for approved developers, and gives department staff a login-only map builder for their own data layers, maps and charts.

People walking near a tram stop as a tram arrives
at the tram stop

What changed

Both platforms remain live and in use, standing alongside Spendmapp and CityCompass as evidence of the range of data products Geografia builds and maintains for government clients.

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