Floor Space per Space Use in Melbourne Municipality, 2002-2024

City of Melbourne's Census of Land Use and Employment (CLUE) data shows floor space in square metres for the municipality from 2002 to 2024. The dataset is classified by space use and small area allocation, with confidentialisation applied to protect commercially sensitive business information. Non-confidentialised data may be available via a data supply agreement.

Use Cases

• Analyze commercial floor space trends over time based on the 2002-2024 time series.
• Model land use patterns across small areas based on the spatial allocation classification.
• Assess the economic density of different business sectors based on confidentialised floor space data.
• Benchmark municipal space use against employment statistics based on the CLUE survey framework.

Strengths

• Covers a 22-year time range from 2002 to 2024.
• Data is confidentialised to protect business privacy, with row totals reflecting true values.
• Linked to more granular block-level data via the 'Floor space per space use for blocks' dataset.

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.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

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 08:14:30.868626; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Municipality of Melbourne, Australia