Indicators help us to assess our municipality's performance, measure progress and compare with other cities. The results also help us monitor our Council Plan and guide policy, planning and management to ensure that Melbourne continues to be a liveable, bold, inspirational and sustainable city.

A visual representation of the indicators presented here can be found in our online visualisation. The indicators are from a select list we collect for the following two main activities:

1. The City of Melbourne Social Indicator Survey (CoMSIS) provides insight into the health, wellbeing, participation and connection of residents in our city. This data is collected to directly address some of the Council Plan’s municipal outcome indicators and support our health and wellbeing priorities. Findings of the survey give insight into the perceived quality of life for our residents.

2. The World Council on City Data (WCCD) is a network of cities committed to improving services and quality of life with open city data and standardised urban indicators. The WCCD developed and oversees an international standard for city data: ISO 37120 Sustainable Development of Communities: Indicators for City Services and Quality of Life. The City of Melbourne is a member of this network and annually submits indicators for verification in accordance with this standard.

Related datasets:
Social Indicators for City of Melbourne Residents 2018

This dataset provides the latest population forecasts (prepared April 2019) for household types, including families, couples without children, lone person and group households. Forecasts are provided for single years from 2016 to 2041 for our municipality as well as thirteen small areas according to our Census of Land Use and Employment (also known as CLUE small areas).

The forecasts are prepared by an independent, specialist agency (.id). Further information can be found on our Population Forecasts page.

Related datasets

are also available on Open Data and include dwelling and household forecasts and population forecasts by age and gender.

This dataset provides the latest population forecasts (prepared April 2019) for private dwellings and households, including the number of vacant private dwellings and vacancy rates, persons in private and non private dwellings and average household size. Forecasts are provided for single years from 2016 to 2041 for our municipality as well as thirteen small areas according to our Census of Land Use and Employment (also known as CLUE small areas).

The forecasts are prepared by an independent, specialist agency (.id). Further information can be found on our Population Forecasts page.

Related datasets

are also available on Open Data and include household type forecasts and population forecasts by age and gender.

This dataset provides our latest population forecasts (prepared April 2019) by age in 5 year groups and gender. Forecasts are provided for single years from 2016 to 2041 for our municipality as well as thirteen small areas according to our Census of Land Use and Employment (also known as CLUE small areas).

The forecasts are prepared by an independent, specialist agency (.id). Further information can be found on our Population Forecasts page.

Related datasets

are also available on Open Data and include dwelling and household forecasts and household type forecasts.

The City of Melbourne Social Indicators Survey (CoMSIS) was conducted for the first time in 2018. The survey collects data about the state of health, well-being, participation and connection of communities in the Melbourne Local Government Area, primarily to report on key Council Plan 2017-21 municipal outcome indicators.

This new survey program replaces the previous Future Melbourne surveys and will be conducted on an annual basis.

This data set provides indicator results for 1,247 residents surveyed via a mix of telephone and online interviewing. Results have been provided by suburb, gender and age groups and has been weighted according to population proportions for the Melbourne LGA. Responses such as don't know, don't understand, prefer not to say, not applicable etc. were excluded in the calculation of indicators. The sample sizes shown reflect this accordingly.

Contains student numbers for 2010-2016 from the Department of Education and Training higher education student database and the National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER) Vocational Education and Training (VET) student and courses database.

This data has been derived from the ABS Census TableBuilder online data tool (http://www.abs.gov.au/websitedbs/D3310114.nsf/Home/2016%20TableBuilder) by Australian Bureau of Statistics, used under CC 4.0.

Contains demographic profile information for workers from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) 2016 Census of Population and Housing. Data has been aggregated based on work location.

This data has been derived from the ABS Census TableBuilder online data tool (http://www.abs.gov.au/websitedbs/D3310114.nsf/Home/2016%20TableBuilder) by Australian Bureau of Statistics, used under CC 4.0.

Contains demographic profile information from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) 2016 Census of Population and Housing. Data has been aggregated based on residents living in buildings with four or more storeys.

This data has been derived from the ABS Census TableBuilder online data tool (http://www.abs.gov.au/websitedbs/D3310114.nsf/Home/2016%20TableBuilder) by Australian Bureau of Statistics, used under CC 4.0.

Contains demographic profile information from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) 2016 Census of Population and Housing. Data has been aggregated based on the top 12 countries of birth for residents.

This data has been derived from the ABS Census TableBuilder online data tool (http://www.abs.gov.au/websitedbs/D3310114.nsf/Home/2016%20TableBuilder) by Australian Bureau of Statistics, used under CC 4.0.

Contains demographic profile information from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) 2016 Census of Population and Housing. Data has been aggregated by families with children aged 0-12 years (as well as 0-5 years, 6-8 years and 9-12 years).

This data has been derived from the ABS Census TableBuilder online data tool (http://www.abs.gov.au/websitedbs/D3310114.nsf/Home/2016%20TableBuilder) by Australian Bureau of Statistics, used under CC 4.0.