GOVERNMENT TOOLS
CONSULTING
FOR LOCAL GOVERNMENT
We're rebuilding your evidence base
One service, ready for the 2026 Census
We're bringing the tools your council subscribes to into one service, on the same data you already trust. It's the biggest change to what we offer in a long time, and it's built for the moment the 2026 Census lands.
Why we are building it
A full rebuild, on the data you already trust
This is much more than a facelift. It's a rebuild of how the tools work and of the architecture underneath them, on the same data and methods you rely on now, shaped by what councils have been asking of us for years.
The first 2026 Census data is due from the Australian Bureau of Statistics in June 2027, and we want you working confidently in the new service well before then, so you can make the most of it from the day it lands.
It's built to take that data in immediately, so you're working with 2026 numbers straight away rather than weeks or months later.
- Nothing changes in the tools you use today
- Your access continues
- The same trusted data and methods
- We'll move you across in stages, well before the first Census data arrives
A QUICK REFRESHER
The tools your council has today
Community Profile
Understand changing demographics and community needs
Australia’s most widely-used online demographic information tool tells the story of who lives in your community, how it compares to other areas and how it’s changing.
What stays the same
Everything you use today still works
Your council keeps everything it has now, and gains the rest.
Everything you do today
The same topics, and the same ability to export and share them.
The same trusted data
The figures, and the methods behind them, aren't changing.
Still public for your community
Your community keeps reading the same evidence your council decides on.
Your subscription
Access carries over on the subscription you already hold.
What improves
The changes councils asked for
There are better ways to export, compare and share too, so what you find ends up in the strategy or the report rather than in a screenshot.
One way of working
The same layout and controls everywhere, and the place you're looking at follows you from Community Profile to Population Forecast to Housing Monitor.
Starts with your question
Ask what you're actually trying to answer, instead of working out which table might hold it.
Built around your challenge
Everything behind a key worker housing strategy in one place, instead of pulling it from four and stitching it together.
The geography you need
Pick the geographic breakdown that fits your question, not the one the tool happens to offer.
The timeline
The new service arrives in stages, and the first 2026 Census release is the deadline that sets the pace. This is the shape of it as we see it today. We'll confirm your own council's timing with you well in advance.
- Now to December 2026
- We build, and test as we go with the councils in our Alpha Group
- Nothing changes in the tools you use today
- The monthly update starts
- Early 2027
- We're aiming for a beta release
- The first councils start working in it
- Your Client Services Lead talks to you about your own timing
- Through early 2027
- Councils move across in stages
- Training and support as each council moves
- May to June 2027
- Available to every council, well ahead of the Census
- The first 2026 Census data is due from the ABS
- The annual economic data update lands in the new service
Monthly updates
Subscribe to the monthly update
Each month we share what we've built, what councils told us and what's coming next. Subscribe and it'll land in your inbox, whether or not you're the named contact on your council's subscription.