Jobs per CLUE Industry in Melbourne Municipality, 2002-2024

City of Melbourne's Census of Land Use and Employment (CLUE) data shows the number of jobs in the municipality from 2002 to 2024, classified by ANZSIC industry and small area allocation. The dataset has been confidentialised to protect commercially sensitive business information, with data from cells pertaining to two or fewer businesses suppressed. Non-confidentialised data may be available via a data supply agreement.

Use Cases

• Analyzing municipal employment trends over time based on the 2002-2024 coverage.
• Mapping industry concentration and economic activity based on small area allocation.
• Informing urban development and zoning policies based on land use and employment data.
• Benchmarking local economic performance against industry classifications based on ANZSIC codes.

Strengths

• Covers a 22-year time series from 2002 to 2024.
• Data is confidentialised to protect business privacy, indicating ethical handling.
• Row totals reflect true totals, including suppressed data, preserving aggregate accuracy.

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 may reflect geographic bias inherent to data_gov_au, being specific to one municipality.

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 08:04:58.256397; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Melbourne municipality, Australia