Local Insights

Local Insights provides access to demographic and development information and trends about individual local government areas via a web-based tool. It displays development applications (DAs) on a map, making it a handy tool to see what’s happening in your neighbourhood. Local Insights also shows growth areas and business sectors to help you identify opportunities.

Enter your address, suburb or local Council area to view information on:

• An interactive map showing the location of current development applications in 15 local government areas (LGAs)

• Population growth

• Number of households and household type

• Demographic data

• Development applications by type and price bracket

• The number of development applications received

• Average time taken to process development applications (in days)

• The number of construction certificates issued

• The average dollar value of development applications received

• The ability to view DAs in adjacent local government areas when you ‘zoom in’ to a specific address

• Information about each local government area grouped under the categories of general, demographic, development and business

• New data about business sectors in each area