Is your school feeling the pressure?
Sally explains how a 2008 ‘fertility peak’ in Australia is impacting our secondary schools a decade later and shares a free resource to help schools estimate the impact of future demographic change on their...
Author: Sally Blandy
Translating demographics into informed location decisions
As population experts, our job is to understand how demographic change will affect every part of Australia – every state, regions, suburb and city block. We call this our “knowledge of place”. Our job...
Where are the kids? Top 5 growing and slowing suburbs for school aged children
By 2026 there will be 705,000 more kids in our schools than there are today. That’s a lot of new schools… 1,400 to be precise! School planners need to decide where to locate these...
What does a location strategy consultant do?
We often get asked what people who work at .id actually do, and what sort of skills and background they have. To help answer those questions, we will be publishing a series of occasional...
Case Study – Planning for schools: Willoughby Public School
The community around Willoughby Public School (WPS) were concerned that the Department of Education was underestimating the population pressures the school faced. They sought out .id for an independent assessment and help in understanding the...
