GOVERNMENT TOOLS

Community Profile

Understand changing demographics and community needs

Community Profile is a demographic tool that helps local councils plan for their community’s future, using curated census data and other sources to provide deep insights into the demographics of local areas. Data can be searched, filtered and refined down to the suburb level to help local governments understand what services, infrastructure and activities their communities need, including where and when.

Community Profile

Used by more than 300 councils around Australia

Features

Understand local differences down to suburb level

Get a more granular view of differences in your community by dividing your LGA into custom smaller areas that make sense to you, and add optional overlays like planning schemes and catchments. 

Understand local differences down to suburb level

Features

Compare and benchmark relevant areas

Gain essential context by comparing demographic data from areas within your LGA and create customised benchmark areas.

Compare and benchmark relevant areas

Features

Explore changes over time

Is your community ageing? Becoming more affluent? More diverse? Community Profile makes it easy to recognise patterns of change in your community over time.

Explore changes over time

83%

of Australians live in an LGA covered by an .id Community Profile

300+

local councils across Australia trust .id for data and insights

Empower local leaders and decision-makers

Community Profile can be accessed by council, local businesses and community groups, ensuring everyone is able to work from the same evidence base

Get a complete view with spatial intelligence

For expert insights into demographics, population change, economics, resourcing, housing and community sentiment, use our tools in combination to get a complete view of place

Included topics

Get a powerful picture of your local community

  • Population summary
  • Population estimates
  • Age profiles

Get a powerful picture of your local community

Benefits

Easy, accurate and insightful data

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Curated and up‑to‑date datasets

.id maintains an accurate and up-to-date evidence-base to ensure the information in Community Profile is credible, current and easy to understand. 

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Direct support from .id

Your subscription gives you direct access to support from the demographic experts behind the tools, from training to ad-hoc advice. 

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Insights within the data

Community Profile converts data to insights using custom local boundaries, geographic comparisons, national benchmarks and changes over time to provide meaningful context.

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Makes sense of Census data

Community Profile translates Census and other data into relevant insights that tell a cohesive story of place. Easy to understand for diverse audiences in their daily decision-making.  


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Easy to use

Insights are presented in easy-to-digest tables, charts, maps and narrative analysis you don’t need to be a specialist to understand.

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Wider audience access

Beyond your council team, members of the public and business can also access our powerful insights to make informed decisions and get answers to common demographic questions.

Community Profile FAQs

First, discuss your needs with our demographic experts. We’ll help you get set up with the right tools that serve your needs.
Next, we define your local geography, customised to whatever boundaries make sense for you. Then we’ll get your site live and let you know when it’s ready to use. We’ll organise training to help you and your team get the most out of it.
Ongoing, we provide updates, support and training as necessary.
Contact us to get started.

Ready to get started?

Set up your council on Community Profile 

If you’re interested in taking the next step, get in touch to find out how Community Profile can help your organisation and community. 

Use this form or reach out by phone or email.

Call us: 03 9417 2205
Email: info@id.com.au

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