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How can I estimate employment for a precint (or other area smaller than local government area geography)?

If your area subscribes to our economic profiles (economy.id), you can build a custom catchment for the areas of

We often get requests from economic development officers, local chambers of commerce or business associations for economic data for a particular precint within a council area, so they can demonstrate change and development in the cluster.

A typical question might be

How can I find the number of jobs/employees by sector or industry in the <commercial precint>?

How to extract economic data for a business precint using economy.id

  1. Open the economic profile for your area
  2. Navigate to the Employment locations page
Employment locations

3. Build a custom geography by clicking all small areas that make up the precint you're interested in.

4. Use the 'Select industry' menu at the top to show data for a specific industry. Show data for number of workers or value-added using the 'measure' drop-menu.

5. You can export a map and corresponding data table as images and excel files.

5. If your area also subscribes to our community profile and social atlas mapping tools, you can build a corresponding profile of population and dwellings.