Always up-to-date

You can trust our forecasts are always current. We regularly update births, deaths, and population data through custom orders with the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), ensuring you receive the latest trends within days of release. We integrate these annual ABS datasets into your forecasts throughout the year.

You can also change small areas and housing information whenever you want, as often as you want, and we reflect these changes in your forecasts within days. This is our commitment to providing accurate and timely insights, ensuring our clients always have reliable information at their fingertips.

Custom small areas

Gain deeper insight into local differences and diverse population outcomes by dividing your LGA into custom geographies that reflect your communities. These areas are called small areas.

Our unique tessellation method allows you to define small areas that are granular and representative of your local communities, unrestricted by statistical boundaries.

Age by single year

Optimal service planning goes beyond traditional 5-year age groups. Whether it's planning for 3 and 4 year-old kinder programs or other specific services, our forecasts enable you to tailor your offerings to the future age characteristics of your communities.

Access detailed population age-structure by single year of age, allowing for precise planning and aggregation into any combination of ages.

Housing forecasts based on your info

Gain understanding of housing supply and demand through our housing forecasts, developed in close collaboration with your council. By incorporating your local policies, strategies, and development plans into our forecast assumptions, we deliver more accurate, locally relevant forecasts that reflect what is actually happening on the ground.

Whether it’s high, medium, or low-density housing, our housing forecasts enable you to plan for targeted housing more effectively.

Understand migration like never before

See who will move into an area as well as who is leaving, allowing you to understand demand through migration. Identify which age groups are attracted to or leaving your small areas, helping you better understand housing markets and plan for housing demand more effectively.

Our small area migration forecasts utilise a customised ABS dataset, detailing the number of residents, by single year of age, who relocate.

Detailed birth and death forecasts

Gain confidence in understanding newborns and young children with our birth forecasts. Detailed breakdowns by the age of the mother help tailor healthcare and educational support to different maternal age groups, ensuring effective prenatal and postnatal care delivery.

Enhance community health and end-of-life planning with detailed death information. Breakdowns by age and sex enable tailored healthcare and support for diverse age groups, ensuring effective end-of-life services, including palliative care and bereavement support. Promote community engagement through educational initiatives that improve death literacy and support networks.

Compare your small areas

Easily compare forecast outputs across small areas. Gain essential context by benchmarking any combination of small areas, allowing for clear identification of relative trends across communities within your LGA.

Ultimate transparency via comprehensive data exports

Leverage data effortlessly. Access and download raw data, export charts, tables, and shapefiles to easily integrate with your existing tools.

Our website clearly presents the underlying assumptions ensuring full transparency. Every dataset and assumption used in our forecasts is available for download, empowering you with complete access to the information you need.

Imagine what’s possible with Scenarios

Plan for a range of futures with custom scenarios, empowering you to explore alternative assumptions or configurations in your forecasts. Scenarios let you duplicate an existing forecast and adjust inputs like small area definitions or housing assumptions to meet your specific needs. This flexibility allows you to:

• Focus on different geographies: Analyse growth corridors, precincts, activity centres, suburbs, or wards to understand population and housing outcomes in targeted areas.
• Test housing strategies: Evaluate the impact of rezoning, developments, or varying densities by modifying assumptions around dwelling numbers, sizes, or timing.

With our fast turnaround, scenarios are easy to create and designed to help you visualise potential futures with ease.

Get the bigger picture with reports

Gain deeper insight into your forecasts with reports, showing how key components come together to shape the bigger picture, including:

• Population: See how births, deaths, and migration combine to shape overall trends.
• Dwellings: See occupancy across detached and medium-to-high-density housing types.
• Housing: See how residents are distributed across housing types and track trends in average household size to by dwelling type for detailed planning.