Melbourne Business Establishments and Jobs by Size and Industry, 2002-2024

2002-2024 data collected by the City of Melbourne's Census of Land Use and Employment (CLUE). It shows the number of jobs and business establishments categorized by business size and CLUE industry for the entire municipality. The dataset has been confidentialised to protect sensitive business information.

Use Cases

• Analyze business size distribution trends based on the defined small, medium, and large categories.
• Track employment changes across CLUE industry sectors over time.
• Assess the economic composition of a municipality based on establishment and job counts.
• Support policy decisions on business support and urban development based on confidentialised establishment data.

Strengths

• Covers a 22-year time range from 2002 to 2024.
• Includes data on both job counts and business establishment counts.
• Categorizes businesses by four distinct size classes (Non-employing, Small, Medium, Larger).

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data in cells pertaining to two or fewer businesses have been suppressed, creating gaps.

Provenance

Source

City of Melbourne Open Data

Collection Method

Census of Land Use and Employment (CLUE)

Time Range

2002-2024

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-28 08:15:42.487841; freshness should be verified.

Geography

City of Melbourne municipality