Jobs per Space Use in Melbourne Municipality, 2002-2024

The City of Melbourne's Census of Land Use and Employment (CLUE) dataset shows employment counts classified by space use and small area allocation. It covers the period from 2002 to 2024 and has been confidentialised to protect commercially sensitive business information. Row totals reflect true counts, including data suppressed from cells with two or fewer businesses.

Use Cases

• Analyzing employment density trends based on space use classifications from 2002 to 2024.
• Modeling urban economic activity based on small area allocation of jobs.
• Assessing the commercial sensitivity of business data based on confidentialisation methods.
• Integrating land use and employment data with block-level CLUE datasets.

Strengths

• Covers a 22-year time range from 2002 to 2024.
• Row totals include suppressed data, providing a complete aggregate count.
• Published under a CC-BY-4.0 license for open use.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data freshness should be verified as the last update timestamp is 2026-06-28.

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 08:02:32.989643.

Geography

Municipality of Melbourne, Australia