Housing development data

Housing development data provides information on the number and location of existing dwellings, vacant residential land, and recent residential development across all land within metropolitan Melbourne.

The data can be used to investigate residential change including the growth of housing stock, changes in housing density, and housing change in planning zones.

There is now ten years of Housing Development Data. Data is prepared for all individual lots across Melbourne where there is an existing dwelling or the lot is located in a land use planning zone that provides for residential uses.

The Housing outcomes in established Melbourne 2005 to 2016 (PDF, 1.9 MB) (DOCX, 2.3 MB) report outlines land use and planning outcomes across established  Melbourne and shows the success of long term strategic planning in directing new housing and density. Some key findings are:

• New housing and increased densities are being successfully directed to the areas with the best access to jobs, services and transport.
• Reforms to the business/commercial zones in 2012-13 have resulted in significant housing development in commercial/mixed use locations.
• Heritage controls are effective in both limiting demolitions and housing growth in heritage areas.

A summary presentation (PDF, 2.3 MB) of key insights in the report is also available.

Revision: Table 2 in the report and corresponding table in the summary presentation were revised in April 2018.