Floor Space per CLUE Industry for Blocks: Melbourne 2002-2024

City of Melbourne's Census of Land Use and Employment (CLUE) data shows floor space in square meters per city block, classified by industry from 2002 to 2024. The dataset is confidentialised, suppressing cells with data from two or fewer businesses to protect commercial sensitivity. It is published by City of Melbourne Open Data under a CC-BY-4.0 license.

Use Cases

• Analyze commercial density patterns based on floor space per city block.
• Track industry-specific land use changes over time based on the 2002-2024 time range.
• Model urban economic activity based on confidentialised business floor space data.

Strengths

• Covers a 22-year time range from 2002 to 2024.
• Includes unique codes for residential, vacant, open, and common area floor space, as described.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data is confidentialised with suppressed cells, which may create gaps for small business analysis.

Provenance

Source

City of Melbourne Open Data

Collection Method

Collected as part of the Census of Land Use and Employment (CLUE).

Time Range

2002-2024

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-28 08:12:54.623007.

Geography

City of Melbourne, Australia