Insights
Short, data-driven reads on the things that shape a neighbourhood — crime, flood risk, development and who lives where — built from the same open government datasets behind our address lookups.
- Development·
Perth is building a small city every year — and it's all happening on the fringe
Dwelling approvals in Perth's growth corridor have exploded: Wanneroo alone now green-lights close to 4,000 new homes a year, up more than 200%. We map where Western Australia's building boom is really happening — and which councils are building hardest per resident.
- Crime·
Crime in Cairns just hit a record high — and it's still climbing
Total recorded crime in the Cairns council area has hit its highest level on record — up more than a third in six years. One offence explains most of the surge: assault has nearly tripled since 2019.
- Crime·
Are Canberra's politicians secret brawlers?
Break-ins in the ACT are down 76% since 2001 and car theft has more than halved. But while property crime melted away, assaults went the other way. We chart Canberra's great crime divergence.
- Demographics·
180 years on, the Barossa is still Australia's German heartland
Nearly a third of Tanunda still claims German ancestry — four times the South Australian average. We map the wine-country towns where the descendants of 1840s Lutheran settlers never really left.
- Crime·
Melbourne's great theft explosion
Recorded theft in the City of Melbourne jumped from about 8,000 offences a year to more than 15,000 in just two years, dragging total CBD crime to record highs — and it has stayed there. We chart what broke.
- Crime·
Crime in Sydney has collapsed
Reported robbery, break-ins and car theft in the City of Sydney have fallen 78–94% since 2001, according to NSW Police data. We chart the great Sydney crime collapse — and the one offence that refused to fall.
- Crime·
For two decades, November broke Surfers Paradise. Then it just stopped.
For twenty years, crime in Surfers Paradise erupted every November as schoolies took over the strip. Since COVID, that spike has collapsed to nothing. We dug into two decades of Queensland Police data.
- Crime·
Brisbane crime forecast to overtake Logan
Everyone has a theory about which Brisbane suburbs are 'dodgy'. I pulled the Queensland Police data for every South East Queensland council and ranked them properly — by rate, not headlines.