Confused about NZ Population (ERP) figures?
If you’ve recently been looking at the population (ERP) for your Territorial Authority, you may have noticed some strange patterns in the charts. In this piece, Penny explains why. At this point in the rollout of 2018 Census data, the...
A rich new demographic resource for the Northern Territory
If you’re involved with planning or service delivery in the Northern Territory, or you work with indigenous communities anywhere else in the country, there is an amazing new resource now available to you.
Finger on the pulse: New headline housing indicators for City of Knox using housing.id
With our new online housing product housing.id almost 1 year old, we’ve had the chance to work with a number of councils to improve the tool to help them achieve their goals.
How does where you live affect how long you live?
Last week, Glenn wrote about the positive trajectory of life expectancy in Australia, following the ABS’ release of updated Life tables. In today’s blog, he shares a more sobering story of inequality, in a...
Data quality in the 2018 census: Comparability problems
The 2018 Census has been unique in many ways. Issues with under-counts resulted in the deployment of new methods to source and validate data. One of the core approaches was the use of administrative records to...
Australians are living longer than ever before – how long do I have left?
Recently the ABS released a brand new set of Life Tables, covering the 2016-2018 period. This may sound like some dull statistical publication, only of interest to boffins (and I do count myself as one). But...
Is your local housing market supplying for vulnerable households?
We’ve written a lot about housing stress recently, and understanding the numbers of households spending too much on their mortgage and rental payments. There are a number of drivers of housing stress, one of...
Resources to help you prepare a competitive BBRF grant application
The federal government has just opened round four of the Building Better Regions Fund. $200 million of funding is now available and is aimed at helping drought-affected communities.
Planning is in the spotlight! What’s your call to action?
Planning at state and local levels is in the spotlight – and for good reason. We should be planning for the complex challenges we are experiencing with much more agility.
Growth areas: Growing up
Later this month I’ll be attending the National Growth Areas Alliance 2019 Congress, along with my fellow demographers Glenn and Nenad. In preparation, we’ve been looking at some interesting stories from growth...
The changing multicultural face of Perth
Overseas migration has always played a key role in Western Australia’s population, but the past decade has seen some significant changes. In today’s post, Glenn takes a deep dive into the changing migration...
Crime on the rise…or is it just about perception?
Reality and perception. For more than 20 years, .id has been working to arm our clients and communities with clear, reliable and objective data to inform their decisions. But the other side of the coin is how...
Townsville: A unique housing story
In today’s blog, Georgia shows our recent Housing Report Starter guide in action. If you haven’t got your copy of the guide yet, you can download one here. Our housing team will also be at the International...
Ageing on hold in New Zealand?
Despite the limited amount of data released from the 2018 Census thus far, interesting stories are starting to emerge. In this piece, Penny explores a slowdown in ageing across the population: the role...
Monitor your investment pipeline using non-residential buildings approvals
Last Friday, October 11th, the .id economics team released the latest update to the building approvals data. With this update, users can monitor the latest economic trends in their Local Government Area (LGA).
Monitoring the health of local economies
In the lead up to the release of 2018/19 NIEIR Data on economy.id, Rob Hall looks at the implications of the current economic environment and recent Reserve Bank decisions for local and regional economies. If...
(MAP) Where are the hotspots for residential development in Australia?
Building approvals are a leading indicator of the general level of residential development, economic activity, employment and investment in a given area. Approvals are also an important data point in the...
First data from the 2018 NZ Census: Growth is the story
Today, Stats NZ has released the first round of data from the 2018 Census. In this piece, we share some highlights from the first release and explain how we’ll be updating our Community Profiles as data...
The early warning signal for housing affordability pressure
There’s one piece of data that anyone with a community profile can check as an early indicator of housing affordability pressure. It’s a change in housing tenure – whether people are renting, paying off a...
Is inequality on the rise in our ‘nation of millionaires’?
‘Australia – a nation of millionaires‘. Catchy headline – but is it true?
The City of Australia
If Australia’s population lived in one city, how large would that city be if it were as dense as… Melbourne? …Hobart? What if it had the same population density as Darwin? How far would that city stretch, and...
