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Know Your Area

Images of people, housing, transport and industry in the shape of Victoria.
Know Your Area provides data about the people of an area and how they live. At present, it has current data relating to:
  • Population (eg. projections, census data, erp's)
  • Land (eg. lots released, dwelling approvals)
  • Housing (eg. median house prices)
  • Employment (eg. unemployment rates)
  • Other facts about Local Government areas
  • Links to DSE, DOI, DVC projects, local councils, libraries and other sites
It is a database that can be searched by:
  • States
  • Capital cities
  • SDs (Statistical divisions)
  • State regions include Victoria, Regional Victoria and Melbourne Metropolitan Area
  • LGAs (Local government areas)
  • SLAs (Statistical local areas)
  • Suburbs
  • Towns


Note: Some information types are not available for all geographic areas.



1. Select geographic area




2. Select information type

Go to data summary page.

Compare data sets
The compare data sets function writes a report comparing a particular data type between selected geographies. Use the 'Compare' button to access this function.
Compare data between geographies.

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