Understanding your local area

Each community has different priorities and needs. The TEI program is flexible, responsive and locally based, so that people can get the right support. Here you will find a variety of DCJ and external data to support local planning and service design.

Child Protection and Out of Home Care LGA data

DCJ child protetction and out of home care data for 2018/19 – 2022/2023 (5 years) by LGA and by DCJ district boundaries across NSW. The data is provided in a heat map format.

Access to the Heat Maps

Data Exchange (DEX) Community Data Profiles

DEX Community Profiles reports combine a number of publicly available population-level datasets to show a picture of the community selected based on location. This allows for a rich picture of the community, location and region in which services are delivered, and where clients come from. The reports include details on the following:

Population Demographics
SEIFA Deciles
Physical Health
Mental Health
Disability
Personal and Family Safety
Community Participation and Networks
Age Appropriate Development

Managing Money
Material Wellbeing
Education
Employment
Family Functioning
Housing
Defence

Important to know about the DEX Community Profiles report

There are three editions of this report. The latest version contains 2021 Census data.
Population data is broken down into Statistical Area 2, 3 and 4 rather than by LGA.
To access the report, a DEX log in is required. Click the ‘Portal Login’ tab at: https://dex.dss.gov.au/

Data by topic

Children and young people

Data from the NSW Department of Education (DoE), Australian Early Development Census (AEDC) and DCJ.

Crime

Crime related data from the NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research.

BOSCAR NSW Local Government Area excel crime tables

Economic

Data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics about incomes, employment and socio- economic advantage and disadvantage.

Housing and Homelessness

Dashboards containing data on housing and homelessness, including data about housing supply and affordability.

Human services searches

Infoxchange Service Seeker dashboard is a comprehensive database of 430,000 government, NGO and support services.

Searches for human services in NSW

Maternal health

HealthStats NSW brings together data from many sources to produce statistical information about the health of NSW residents.

Migration

Australian Government data about settlement and visas.

Records of people who have been granted a permanent or provisional visa

Aboriginal children, families and communities

Data from DCJ, NSW Aboriginal Land Council and AIATSIS.

Population

Census data available by LGA, with an interactive map to support your searches. Includes data about people and population, education, income and work, cultural diversity and housing.

ABS Census data

Need more support?

If you require any assistance or have any questions about the data displayed on this page, please reach out to tei@dcj.nsw.gov.au

Last updated:

04 Jun 2024