Data Explorers
Gain insights into local communities and regional economies across Australia by accessing free demographic, economic and investment information
Place-specific data for
locations across Australia
This is where you will find free information to help you analyse and compare regional economies and communities. You can explore a range of economic and social measures and view over 250 detailed profiles for local council areas, regions, states and territories.
Explore regional profiles
REMPLAN works with clients to develop public access economic, demographic, forecast and investment profiles that range from capital cities to remote rural locations across Australia.
To view these free resources, please visit our Region Explorer to search for your location of interest.
Explore population growth
Designed to answer the frequently asked question, ‘what is our population?’, use the ERP Explorer to understand an area’s population and its changes over the past ten years. It’s a free tool that provides a quick and easy way to find the population of local government areas (LGAs) and SA2s in Australia.
The ERP Explorer uses estimated residential population (ERP) data published by the ABS and then displays both population change and its annualised growth rate over a ten year period for both LGAs and SA2s across the country.
Areas are displayed ranked against other locations either in Australia or within the relevant state or territory.
Explore JobSeeker recipient data
The number of JobSeeker recipients is any region is an indicator of underemployment, unemployment and general welfare need. JobSeeker is a financial assistance program for people aged between 22 years and Aged Pension age, who are looking for work and who qualify under income and asset tests. It also supports eligible people when they are sick or injured and cannot do their usual work or study for a short time.
Our JobSeeker Explorer has been designed to make it easy to find the percentage of the labour force that is in receipt of JobSeeker payments by either LGA or SA2 across the country. Areas are ranked against other locations either in the relevant State/Territory or Australia.
Explore Unemployment Figures
Unemployment rates are key indicators of a regional economic performance. The National Skills Commission releases quarterly estimates of unemployment rates for small areas including local government areas and SA2s.
The REMPLAN Unemployment Explorer makes it easy to view unemployment rates in LGAs or SA2s across Australia. Areas are also ranked against other locations either in the relevant State/Territory or Australia.
Explore Housing Affordability
Housing affordability refers to the relationship between expenditure on housing and household incomes and, in Australia this has broadly declined since the early ‘80s. Of course, affordability differs between the states and territories and between capital cities and regional areas. The REMPLAN Housing Affordability Explorer provides insights into this important issue by providing a free and easy visualisation of mortgage and rental payments and their relationship with affordability for all LGAs and SA2s across Australia.
Utilising data from the 2021 ABS Census of Population and Housing, the Explorer presents estimates of the number of households where housing costs are more than or less than 30% of household income. Less than this threshold is the generally accepted level of housing affordability.
Areas are ranked against other locations either in the relevant state/territory or Australia.
Tailored Information & Resources
These Explorers are only the start of the story. Our clients have access to a more comprehensive range of online economic and demographic information and analysis tools through our REMPLAN Economy, REMPLAN Community, REMPLAN Forecast and REMPLAN Investment products.
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