Jobs per Space Use for Blocks: City of Melbourne Employment Census 2002-2024

2002-2024 employment data collected by the City of Melbourne's Census of Land Use and Employment (CLUE). It shows the number of jobs per city block, classified by space use and small area allocation. The dataset has been confidentialised to protect business information, with data from cells pertaining to two or fewer businesses suppressed.

Use Cases

• Analyze employment density patterns based on CLUE block-level job counts.
• Model urban economic activity based on space use classifications.
• Track changes in job distribution over time based on the 2002-2024 coverage.
• Support municipal planning decisions based on confidentialised business data.

Strengths

• Covers a 22-year time range from 2002 to 2024.
• Includes row totals that account for suppressed confidential data.
• Links to spatial files and classification system documentation.

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 City of Melbourne's Census of Land Use and Employment (CLUE).

Time Range

2002-2024

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-28 08:14:59.882625; freshness should be verified.

Geography

City of Melbourne, Australia, at the block level.