Forecasts from 2023 to 2043 provide annual jobs projections for the City of Melbourne municipality and its small areas. Prepared by SGS Economics and Planning between February and September 2024, the data includes breakdowns by industry and space use type. Related datasets are available on the City of Melbourne Open Data platform.
Use Cases
- Modeling local economic growth based on annual jobs forecasts.
- Planning infrastructure and services based on small-area employment projections.
- Analyzing industry-specific employment trends over a 20-year horizon.
- Comparing forecasted job growth across different space use types.
Strengths
- Forecasts cover a 20-year time range from 2023 to 2043.
- Data is disaggregated by small geographic areas and by industry.
- Prepared by a named consultancy, SGS Economics and Planning.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Data may reflect geographic and modeling bias inherent to the source and methodology.
Provenance
- Source
- City of Melbourne Open Data
- Collection Method
- Forecasts prepared by SGS Economics and Planning.
- Time Range
- 2023-2043
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-06-28 08:05:36.931013; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- City of Melbourne municipality and its small areas.