How liveable is your community?
What makes somewhere a good place to live? Do different communities value different things? Where is the lived experience considered relatively good, and where do people feel it is relatively poor? In this piece,...
What makes somewhere a good place to live? Do different communities value different things? Where is the lived experience considered relatively good, and where do people feel it is relatively poor? In this piece,...
If you’ve accessed one of our ‘free’ online tools, you may be wondering ‘Who pays for all this?” The short answer: your local council (probably). Jump ahead: I can’t find a profile for my area...
We’ve been working hard behind the scenes, and now we’re excited to let you know that the Worker profiles on economy.id have now been updated with 2016 Census data. These profiles are a great...
This post details the latest data updates we’ve made to the .idCommunity suite – our online tools for local government that are made freely available to the wider community. Updates to the community profiles All...
Have you started writing a funding submission, but quickly ground to a halt? In this post, we share a simple guide with step-by-step instructions on how to structure your submission, where to find the...
You would think, at a glance, that pin-striped property developers and avocado-addicted, socially-progressive millennials would make for rather strange bedfellows. However, in recent years, an international, grass-roots community movement has seen the latter take...
Benchmark thy neighbour Many of you told us you wanted to compare between suburbs, small areas or districts within your LGA. Well, now you can! You’ve always been able to tell how your small...
If you follow our blog closely you’d be aware we’ve been incrementally releasing updates to our free online tools to include data from the 2016 Census. In this update, we look at running custom...
We first published this blog in 2017, just after we had finished working with a number of local councils to help them secure funding for local community development projects. Reflecting on the submissions that...
Following last week’s small area update, we have now released two small but important updates to your community profile. A new population highlights page Updated Estimated Resident Population (ERP) figures Your new population highlights...
We have released our fourth and most significant update to your community profile, with more information from the 2016 Census. This is the update that many of you have been looking forward to –...
With our third release, you get a fresh look at your community’s income, education and internet connectivity, as well as ancestry, birthplace, religion and proficiency in English. There’s also updated information about your indigenous...