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Joondalup - Edgewater has an estimated 15,727 residents, up from 13,845 at the 2021 Census — a change of 1,882 people, or 13.6%. Growth has averaged 2.0% a year over five years, faster than 81% of areas nationally. Overseas migration accounts for 99.9% of that increase. That puts 1,007 residents on each square kilometre. Population is estimated from ABS Estimated Resident Population releases and GNAF address data, re-based from the 2021 Census and updated annually.
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Demographic analysis by AreaSearch estimates that Joondalup - Edgewater accommodates approximately 15,727 residents as of Aug 2026. Compared with the 2021 Census count of 13,845 people, this indicates an expansion of 1,882 people (13.6%). This upward revision combines the ABS estimated resident population of 15,713 as of June 2025 with 50 validated new addresses added post-Census. Consequently, population density stands at 1,006 persons per square kilometer, aligning closely with broader benchmarks tracked by AreaSearch. Outpacing both the 9.5% national benchmark and the broader SA3 district, the locality's 13.6% increase since the 2021 census positions it as a leading regional growth area.
Overseas migration has served as the primary demographic catalyst, generating virtually all population expansion in recent times. Projections for each SA2 area utilise ABS/Geoscience Australia models released in 2024 (benchmarked to 2022). For unrepresented SA2s and all forecasting beyond 2032, AreaSearch applies age-bracket growth trajectories published in the 2023 ABS Greater Capital Region update (utilising 2022 data). Factoring in these shifting age dynamics, long-term expansion is anticipated to track slightly under the Australian statistical area median, gaining 651 persons by 2041 relative to latest annual ERP population figures, amounting to an overall 4.0% increase across the 16 years.
Frequently Asked Questions - Population
92 new dwellings have been approved in Joondalup - Edgewater over the past five years, an average of 18 a year. That is 1.2 approvals per 1,000 residents. Figures come from ABS building approvals aggregated to this SA2 boundary and are updated monthly as the ABS releases them.
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Residential building approvals across Joondalup - Edgewater have averaged roughly 18 new dwellings annually, accumulating to 92 homes across the past 5 financial years. With an inflow averaging 15.8 new residents each year per constructed dwelling throughout the past 5 financial years (between FY-22 and FY-26), local demand heavily exceeds incoming stock, intensifying buyer competition and supporting upward pricing momentum. Concurrently, average construction value for new dwellings sits at $319,000, coming in below regional figures and highlighting relatively affordable building opportunities. Non-residential activity has also been notable, with $54.9 million in commercial approvals logged during this financial year highlighting robust commercial development momentum.
Relative to Greater Perth, residential construction in Joondalup - Edgewater is markedly subdued, registering 52.0% below the regional per-capita baseline. Such constrained additions reinforce demand and underlying values across established housing stock. This volume also trails nationwide averages, reflecting an established urban fabric alongside potential regulatory or land constraints. All recent residential activity comprises standalone houses, reinforcing the suburban character and appealing to buyers seeking detached space. Developers are delivering detached residences at a higher proportion than the existing built form (70.0% at Census), underscoring sustained appetite for freestanding properties despite broader infill trends. The ratio of approximately 797 people per dwelling approval further underlines the mature status of the market. Longer-term demographic forecasts project that Joondalup - Edgewater will expand by 637 residents by 2041 based on the latest AreaSearch quarterly estimate. Current residential planning is maintaining a reasonable balance with expected population increases, although ongoing additions may heighten competitive conditions for incoming purchasers.
Frequently Asked Questions - Development
Development applications around Joondalup - Edgewater
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SOURCE: Planning portals and council registers, compiled by AreaSearch. Distance & bearing measured from the suburb midpoint.
AreaSearch tracks 18 current infrastructure and development projects inside Joondalup - Edgewater, worth an estimated $1.35 billion. A further 69 sit in the immediately surrounding suburbs, taking the tracked pipeline within reach of the area to $12.8 billion. 27 are already under construction and 32 are due for completion within three years. The pipeline spans residential development, communities, precincts & urban renewal and education & training. Records are compiled from Infrastructure Australia, state agencies, council planning portals and public announcements, reviewed and updated daily, then ranked by proximity, construction stage, completion horizon and project scale.
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Capital investments, planning frameworks, and civic works play a fundamental role in shaping local growth. AreaSearch has pinpointed 41 initiatives possessing notable influence across the district. Prominent projects encompass the Joondalup Health Campus Development Stage 2, Boas Place Joondalup City Centre, Ramsay Private at Joondalup Health Campus Expansion, and the ECU Joondalup School of Education Relocation, with the subsequent inventory detailing the most significant undertakings.
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Ramsay Private at Joondalup Health Campus Expansion
Completed Ramsay Health Care funded expansion of Ramsay Private at Joondalup Health Campus, opened in February 2026. The expansion delivered six operating suites including two shared public and private theatres, two day procedure suites, a day surgery admissions unit, 30 medical beds, 22 surgical beds, 30 shelled beds for future use, expanded back-of-house facilities and a private kitchen. The upgrade improves private health services for Perth's northern suburbs and complements the wider Joondalup Health Campus redevelopment.
Joondalup Health Campus Development Stage 2
A major 307.9 million dollar expansion of Joondalup Health Campus jointly funded by the Western Australian State Government (149.9 million) and the Australian Government (158 million). Delivered by Multiplex over multiple stages, the project has already added a 102-bed mental health unit (opened August 2023), an expanded emergency department with a 12-bay influenza-like-illness unit, a Behavioural Assessment Urgent Care Clinic, six new coronary care beds, an expanded multi-storey car park with 215 additional bays, a new 106-bed public ward block (with 46 beds operational), one new public theatre and two new interventional cardiac catheter labs (opened June 2025).Two further shared public-private theatres opened in September 2025. The final stage involves fit-out of 60 additional public beds, supported by a 24 million dollar state budget allocation, scheduled for completion by mid-2026. A separate Ramsay-funded 190 million dollar Joondalup Private Hospital expansion was completed and opened to patients in early 2026, lifting bed numbers from 150 to 202 with six new operating theatres.
ECU Joondalup School of Education Relocation
Relocation and consolidation of the ECU School of Education to the Joondalup Campus from Mount Lawley. The project incorporates high-tech research labs, flexible modern teaching spaces, and specialized curriculum development facilities.
Joondalup Performing Arts and Cultural Facility
Proposed state-of-the-art performing arts venue planned for Lot 1001 Teakle Court in the Joondalup City Centre. The proposed facility is designed to feature primary theatre auditoriums, rehearsal spaces, and cultural exhibition galleries serving as a premier arts and entertainment hub for northern metropolitan Perth. The City of Joondalup continues to review business cases and funding models for the project site.
2 Wise Street Mixed-Use Development
A landmark multi-storey commercial precinct in Joondalup City Centre featuring specialist healthcare suites, modern commercial offices, ground-floor retail, and a designated childcare centre. Strategically situated adjacent to the Joondalup Health Campus to service growing local medical and professional services demand.
Yellagonga Regional Park Improvement Project
State Government funded program to enhance Yellagonga Regional Park through new recreation and environmental infrastructure. Completed works include the Yalbunullup mountain bike trail network, bird viewing tower, accessible boardwalks, pathways, signage and rehabilitation. Construction continues on the Luisini Winery nature playground and Perry's Paddock car park, with further park improvements scheduled through 2026.
Boas Place - Joondalup City Centre Development
City-led mixed-use precinct renewal in the Joondalup City Centre across City-owned civic core lots bounded by Boas Avenue, Central Walk, Central Park and Lakeside Drive. The project remains in planning and investigation, with the City using project philosophy and parameters, city centre activation work and related business cases to guide future redevelopment. The intended outcome is a vibrant mix of commercial, retail, residential, civic and public spaces, with WA Investments identifying an economic and innovation hub capable of supporting about 1,400 workers.
35 Davidson Terrace Development
Proposed residential development featuring modern townhouses and apartments. Emphasizes sustainable design, community integration, and accessibility to local services and transport networks.
9,181 residents of Joondalup - Edgewater are employed, from a labour force of 9,597. Unemployment sits at 4.3%, with participation at 71.4%. Weighted for its industry mix, the area's sectors are forecast to grow about 6.5% nationally over five years. That reflects industry composition only and makes no allowance for local population growth, so in an area growing as fast as this one it understates the likely rise in local jobs. The working-day population is estimated at 22,707, about 144% of the resident population, so the area draws in more workers than it sends out. Unemployment and labour force come from ABS Small Area Labour Markets, updated quarterly; the industry and occupation profile is from the 2021 Census.
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Joondalup - Edgewater features a skilled labour market with substantial representation across essential service industries, maintaining an unemployment rate of 4.3% alongside an estimated 3.6% employment expansion over the preceding twelve months. Figures for March 2026 indicate 9,181 employed residents, an unemployment rate trailing Greater Perth's 4.2% by 0.1%, and labour force participation closely matching the 69.9% regional benchmark. Census records showed 8.6% of workers based at home, though these figures were subject to prevailing Covid-19 restrictions. Prominent employment sectors for local residents include health care & social assistance, education & training, and construction.
The community displays pronounced concentration in education & training, generating a local share 1.2 times greater than the regional benchmark. Conversely, transport, postal & warehousing captures only 3.3% of the resident workforce, trailing the 4.7% registered across Greater Perth. Recording 1.5 jobs per resident at the Census, the locality serves as a major employment destination, drawing inbound commuters from adjacent suburbs. Analysis of ABS and SALM metrics by AreaSearch indicates that over the year to March 2026, local employment expanded by 3.6% while the labour supply grew by 3.9%, leading to an unemployment uptick of 0.2 percentage points. In comparison, Greater Perth experienced a 2.0% employment gain, a 2.5% labour force increase, and a 0.4 percentage point rise in unemployment. Long-range context is provided by Jobs and Skills Australia national industry projections from Mar-26. Evaluated against the local sector breakdown over five- and ten-year intervals, national employment is expected to lift by 6.6% across five years and 13.7% over ten years, with trajectories varying by industry. Weighting these sectoral forecasts against Joondalup - Edgewater's existing employment composition indicates prospective local job growth of 6.5% over five years and 13.5% over ten years (representing a direct weighted extrapolation for illustrative use, excluding localized population adjustments).
Frequently Asked Questions - Employment
Median household income in Joondalup - Edgewater is $1,784 a week (about $93,000 a year), with median personal income at $830 a week. ATO records put median taxable income at $60,736 a year against an average of $77,127. Household income is from the 2021 Census; taxable income is from ATO Taxation Statistics for the latest financial year available, indexed forward using the ABS Wage Price Index.
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ATO postcode statistics compiled by AreaSearch for financial year 2023 indicate that the Joondalup - Edgewater SA2 recorded a median individual taxpayer income of $60,736 and an average of $77,127, comfortably exceeding national benchmarks compared to Greater Perth figures of $60,748 and $80,248. Indexing these values against the 10.93% Wage Price Index increase since financial year 2023 yields updated estimates of roughly $67,374 (median) and $85,557 (average) as of March 2026. Data from the 2021 Census positions local household, family, and individual earnings around the 53rd percentile nationally. In terms of earnings brackets, the single largest cohort accounts for 32.6% earning $1,500 - 2,999 weekly (5,127 residents), closely tracking the 32.0% regional share.
Residential costs absorb 15.7% of earnings; nevertheless, healthy wages sustain disposable income at the 53rd percentile, with SEIFA socio-economic scoring placing the area in the 6th decile.
Frequently Asked Questions - Income
Joondalup - Edgewater had 5,312 occupied dwellings at the 2021 Census, 70% detached houses and 16% apartments. 38% are owned with a mortgage, 33% rented and 29% owned outright. At that Census the median rent was $360 a week and the median mortgage repayment $1,820 a month. Rent absorbs 20.2% of household income here and mortgage repayments 23.5%. Dwelling stock, tenure and housing costs are 2021 Census measures — the only source that counts dwellings at this boundary size.
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According to the latest Census, residential accommodation across Joondalup - Edgewater was divided into 69.5% separate houses and 30.5% attached or other dwellings (encompassing semi-detached structures, apartments, and alternative dwellings), compared with 77.8% separate houses and 22.1% attached options across metropolitan Perth. Outright home ownership matched the Perth metropolitan level at 28.8%, while remaining properties were either held with a mortgage (38.1%) or occupied by tenants (33.2%). Median monthly mortgage repayments stood at $1,820, sitting below the metropolitan benchmark of $1,907 and the Australian figure of $1,863. Median weekly rents were recorded at $360, compared against $350 across metropolitan Perth and $375 nationally.
Frequently Asked Questions - Housing
Joondalup - Edgewater counted 5,312 households at the 2021 Census, an estimated 6,034 today, averaging 2.4 people each. 27% are couples with children, against 30% couples without children. 26% of households are people living alone, and families average 1.5 children. Household and family composition is measured only by the Census, so these are 2021 figures.
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Family units constitute 68.8% of all households in the district, comprising couples without children (30.0%), couples with children (27.4%), and single parent arrangements (10.5%). The remaining 31.2% consist of non-family living arrangements, represented by single-person dwellings at 26.2% and shared group households at 5.0%. The locality's median household size of 2.4 persons sits slightly below the Greater Perth standard of 2.6.
Frequently Asked Questions - Households
29.0% of adults in Joondalup - Edgewater hold a university qualification, including 19.5% with a bachelor degree and 6.3% with postgraduate qualifications. A further 25.3% hold a vocational qualification. 9 schools serve the area, with 4,068 enrolment places and an average ICSEA of 1,040 against a national benchmark of 1,000. Qualifications come from the 2021 Census; school enrolments, ICSEA and results come from ACARA's current release.
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Across Joondalup - Edgewater, higher education credentials are held by 29.0% of individuals aged 15+. Bachelor degrees account for the largest proportion at 19.5%, supplemented by postgraduate degrees (6.3%) and graduate diplomas (3.2%). Vocational and technical training is equally well established, with 38.0% of residents aged 15+ possessing vocational qualifications, divided between advanced diplomas (12.7%) and certificates (25.3%). Student participation is substantial throughout the suburb, with 29.7% of the population actively engaged in formal study. This cohort comprises 8.9% attending higher education, 8.4% enrolled in primary schooling, and 6.4% in secondary education.
Frequently Asked Questions - Education
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Public transport in Joondalup - Edgewater reaches 129 stops on 21 routes, timetabled for about 4,000 services a week. The typical home sits about 180 m from its nearest stop. Buses carry the largest share of public transport commuters. Households keep an average of 1.3 vehicles. Stop and service counts are built from operators' published GTFS timetables and refresh with each timetable release; vehicle ownership is from the 2021 Census.
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Public transport connectivity within Joondalup - Edgewater is supported by 129 transit stops spanning rail and bus networks. These facilities are served by 21 distinct routes that generate 3,955 weekly passenger departures. Network access is exceptionally strong, with local residents situated an average of 184 meters from their nearest transit node. Reflecting outward commuter travel from this predominantly residential enclave, private vehicles serve as the primary transport mode at 72%, alongside 16% utilizing trains and 5% traveling by bus. Private vehicle availability averages 1.3 per dwelling, trailing the wider metropolitan baseline, while 8.6% worked from home at the 2021 Census (which may reflect prevailing COVID-19 settings).
Transit schedules provide an average of 565 daily services across all available lines, delivering roughly 30 weekly trips per individual station or stop. The accompanying mapping illustrates the 100 closest stops relative to the geographic centroid.
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69.3% of residents in Joondalup - Edgewater report no long-term health condition. 5.3% need daily assistance with core activities, and 57.0% hold private health cover. The standardised death rate runs at 5.9 per 1,000 residents. Health conditions, assistance needs and insurance are 2021 Census measures; the death rate comes from current ABS releases.
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Analysis of chronic illness and mortality metrics by AreaSearch points to below-average overall health benchmarks in Joondalup - Edgewater, with common health conditions presenting slightly higher incidence rates across both younger and older demographics. At the same time, private healthcare coverage is notably widespread, encompassing approximately 57% of the total population (~8,964 people). The primary reported chronic health conditions across the suburb are mental health disorders (9.3%) and arthritis (7.1%), while 69.3% of the community indicated no chronic medical diagnoses, compared to 71.9% throughout Greater Perth. Health outcomes across working-age cohorts generally align with typical norms.
Residents aged 65 and over account for 19.0% of the locality (2,986 people), exceeding the Greater Perth baseline of 15.9%. Among this senior demographic, health indicators are above average, achieving higher relative national standings than the broader population.
Frequently Asked Questions - Health
46.8% of Joondalup - Edgewater residents were born overseas and 15.3% speak a language other than English at home. The largest reported ancestries are English (34.6%) and Australian (18.2%). Ancestry, language and country of birth are counted only by the Census, so these are 2021 figures.
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Cultural diversity in Joondalup - Edgewater sits well above typical community benchmarks, with 46.8% of residents born abroad and 15.3% speaking a non-English language at home. Christianity represents the most widely held religious affiliation, accounting for 45.2% of the local population. Islam represents 2.0% of local residents, compared to 3.2% across Greater Perth. Looking at parental lineage, the most prominent ancestries reported in Joondalup - Edgewater are English at 34.6% (exceeding the regional level of 28.0%), Australian at 18.2%, and Other at 9.9%. Several other backgrounds show elevated representation relative to metropolitan averages, including South Australian at 1.6% (vs 1.0%), Welsh at 1.1% (vs 0.7%), and Polish at 1.0% (vs 0.7%).
Frequently Asked Questions - Diversity
The median resident of Joondalup - Edgewater is 39. That is 1 year younger than at the 2021 Census. 30.5% of residents are aged 15 to 34. Age cohorts are not raw Census counts: the Census split is re-based to the latest ABS population estimates and state projections.
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Age distributions across Joondalup - Edgewater align closely with metropolitan profiles, with the maximum divergence across the four broad life stages measuring 3.0 percentage points against Greater Perth. As of August 2026, the estimated median age is 39, down from 40 recorded at the 2021 Census and 2 years higher than the Greater Perth median of 37 at that time. Since the Census, the middle-aged and pre-retiree segment (45 - 64) has shifted from 26.2% down to an estimated 22.3%. Through to 2041, the largest numerical expansion will occur within senior cohorts (65+), adding 1,310 residents (44%) to reach 4,297, while child, young adult, and middle-aged brackets are projected to experience contraction.
Frequently Asked Questions - Age
Data & MethodBoundaries, Sources & Method for Joondalup - Edgewater
9 of 14 data sections on this page were updated within the last 12 months — the newest current to Aug 2026.
Everything is aggregated to the SA2 boundary shown above, on a 2021 Census baseline. Only 3 sections — housing, households and cultural diversity — still wait on the 2026 Census.
The ledger — source, cycle and currency by section
| Section | Source & update cycle | Currency |
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| Updated within the last 12 months 9 sections | ||
| Population | ABS, GNAF, Geoscience Australia Annual (ABS ERP) | Aug 2026 last month headline measures · 2021 Census baseline |
| Re-based to the ABS Estimated Resident Population (June 2025 release) and updated with new dwellings from GNAF address data. Current to Aug 2026, with the 2021 Census supplying the small-area baseline. | ||
| Age profile | ABS, Geoscience Australia, State governments Annual | Aug 2026 last month headline measures · 2021 Census baseline |
| Age cohorts are re-based to the latest ABS population estimates and state projections, current to Aug 2026. Each cohort is held as a Census baseline and a current estimate. | ||
| Development & approvals | ABS, GNAF Monthly (ABS approvals) | Aug 2026 last month headline measures · Jun 2026 baseline |
| Property sales & rents | Valuer General, Rental Board, ABS Weekly sales, quarterly rents | Aug 2026 last month all 21 measures |
| Sales from the state Valuer General register, refreshed weekly, and rents from quarterly rental bond lodgements. Both are read live each time this page loads, current to Aug 2026. | ||
| Infrastructure projects | Infrastructure Australia, State agencies, Local governments Daily | Aug 2026 last month all 19 projects tracked here |
| Project pipeline maintained continuously from Infrastructure Australia, state agencies, local government and public announcements. Records are added and revised daily; this area was last updated Aug 2026. | ||
| Employment | ABS, DEWR, JSA Quarterly (ABS SALM) | Mar 2026 6 months ago headline measures · 2021 Census baseline |
| Unemployment and labour force from ABS Small Area Labour Markets, current to Mar 2026. The growth outlook applies Department of Employment (now Jobs and Skills Australia) forecasts for all 19 industry divisions to the local industry mix, so it measures sector composition rather than local expansion and makes no allowance for population growth. Job demand comes from the same agency via its Internet Vacancy Index; industry and occupation structure from the 2021 Census. | ||
| Education | ABS, ACARA Annual (ACARA) | Aug 2026 last month headline measures · 2021 Census baseline |
| Transport | ABS, State Transport Departments Each timetable release | Jul 2026 2 months ago headline measures · 2021 Census baseline |
| Services & amenities | Provider directories, ACECQA Continuous | Jul 2026 2 months ago all 14 measures |
| Annual and financial-year sources 2 sections | ||
| Income | ABS, ATO Annual (ATO) | FY 2023 3 years ago headline measures · 2021 Census baseline |
| ATO taxable income statistics for FY 2023, indexed forward using the Wage Price Index. Census household income provides the distribution detail. | ||
| Health | ABS, ATO Annual | 2024 2 years ago headline measures · 2021 Census baseline |
| Census-measured — next update: 2026 Census 3 sections No more current small-area source exists for these, so they are labelled as Census-measured rather than implied to be current. | ||
| Housing | ABS 5-yearly (Census) | 2021 Census next update 2026 all 30 measures |
| Households | ABS 5-yearly (Census) | 2021 Census next update 2026 all 18 measures |
| Cultural diversity | ABS, Geoscience Australia 5-yearly (Census) | 2021 Census next update 2026 all 44 measures |
"Currency" is the most recent release feeding that section. Where the Census supplies the structural baseline underneath a current headline figure, the row says so.
How the numbers are built
Population
The Census provides the small-area baseline, aggregated from mesh blocks to this boundary. It is then re-based to the ABS Estimated Resident Population (June 2025 release), and new dwellings built since Census night are counted from address data — 50 validated new addresses here. The headline figure is therefore a current estimate for Aug 2026, not a 2021 count (13,845 at the 2021 Census → 15,727 now). Annual growth rates are compound (CAGR), not simple averages.
Age profile
Cohort shares are not raw Census counts. Every cohort is held as a pair — the Census baseline and a current estimate — and the split is re-based using ERP and state population projections, current to Aug 2026. Median age is the Census median plus modelled change since. Charts that show both are labelled "2021 Census vs Current Estimate".
Property sales
Sourced from the state valuation authority's sales register — current, not Census, and refreshed weekly. Medians are calculated from settled transactions in the period shown; periods with very low transaction counts are flagged or suppressed, because a handful of sales can move a median substantially.
Rents
Derived from state rental bond lodgement data, by dwelling type and bedroom count. Bonds are lodged at the start of a new tenancy, so this reflects new lettings, not the whole rented stock.
Development & infrastructure
Building approvals come from current ABS releases; development applications are collected from council and state planning portals; the infrastructure pipeline is compiled from Infrastructure Australia and local government sources. Applications are matched to this boundary by address or coordinates, so very recent lodgements may not yet appear.
Employment & income
Industry and occupation structure comes from the Census, but the headline labour-market indicators do not. Unemployment and labour force are derived from ABS Small Area Labour Markets (quarterly). The employment outlook applies Department of Employment forecasts for all 19 industry divisions to this area's own industry mix (the agency is now Jobs and Skills Australia), as does the Internet Vacancy Index used for job demand. Because it is weighted on industry composition alone, that outlook carries no allowance for local population growth — in fast-growing areas the real rise in local jobs will typically be higher. Income combines Census household income with ATO taxable-income statistics for FY 2023, indexed forward using the Wage Price Index.
Education, transport & amenities
School enrolments, ICSEA and performance come from ACARA's current release, not the Census. Public transport stops and service frequency are derived from GTFS timetable feeds published by state transport departments. Services and amenities are proximity and count scores built from provider directories, refreshed on their own cycle. The Census contributes only the travel-to-work and qualification measures.
Rankings and benchmarks. Where we rank this area, the comparison set is every area of the same boundary type — suburbs against suburbs, SA2s against SA2s. Benchmarks compare this area against its greater capital city region and the national figure for the same measure and period.
Limits worth knowing. Small areas carry larger error margins, and the ABS introduces small random adjustments to Census counts to protect confidentiality — so totals may not sum exactly. Estimates re-based from regional data describe the area's expected trajectory, not a direct count of it. Figures are indicative for research and are not financial, planning or valuation advice.
Cross-check us. The Census baseline for this boundary is at ABS 2021 Census QuickStats (505011077). QuickStats reports 2021 only — the figures on this page are more current wherever the ledger shows a later date.