Jobs per CLUE Industry for Blocks: Melbourne Employment Data 2002-2024

2002-2024 employment data from the City of Melbourne's Census of Land Use and Employment (CLUE), showing job counts per city block classified by industry. The dataset is confidentialised, with data suppressed for cells pertaining to two or fewer businesses. It is published by the City of Melbourne Open Data under a CC-BY-4.0 license.

Use Cases

• Analyzing employment density and industry clustering based on CLUE block-level job counts.
• Tracking changes in the local job market over time based on the 2002-2024 data range.
• Modeling urban economic activity using industry classifications from the ANZSIC system.
• Assessing commercial land use and employment distribution for city planning.

Strengths

• Covers a 22-year time range from 2002 to 2024.
• Provides block-level geographic detail for the City of Melbourne.
• Uses a standardized industry classification system (ANZSIC).

Limitations

• Data is confidentialised, with suppression for cells with two or fewer businesses, limiting granularity.
• 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 08:13:03.825228.

Geography

City of Melbourne, Australia (block-level).