The modern demographic platform for Australian councils

Community intelligence.
Entirely different
experience.

Clearer design. Faster workflows. A grant application that used to take a day now takes minutes. We'll show you how in the demo.

More than 30m data points
Integrates with your workflow
From the team behind Spendmapp
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LGAs covered nationally
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Small areas & localities
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Councils already trust Geografia
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Integrated intelligence modules

Sound Familiar?

Your team relies on their community profile
every week. It shouldn't feel like this.

Your current platform has the data. But the interface hasn't changed in years, the data doesn't flow into your documents, and demographics and spending live in completely different worlds. There's a better way now.

What you put up with

Clicking through 40+ separate topic pages to find the one number you need
An interface that looks the same as it did ten years ago
Manually copying stats from screen to document, every single time
Demographics on one platform, spending data on another — no connection between them
Data is there, but nothing tells you what it means for your community

What you switch to

Consolidated topic pages — the same data in fewer, smarter views
A modern interface designed for how councils work in 2026
Data structured to flow directly into the tools you already use for writing
Demographics and local spending data integrated in one platform — only from Geografia
Pre-written insights on every page that explain what the numbers actually mean

What Makes Us Different

Designed for the people who
actually write the grants and plans.

01

Answers in seconds, not hours

Consolidated topic pages surface the exact stat you need for a grant application or council report. No more scrolling through forty separate data tables to find one number.

02

Never out of date

Automated pipelines pull new Census releases, ABS updates, and economic indicators the moment they're published. No consultant turnaround. No manual spreadsheets.

03

One platform, not three tools

Community demographics, population forecasts, and local economic data — in a single integrated platform. No more switching between separate systems to get the full picture.

04

Small-area detail, not just LGA

Your council plan doesn't treat every area the same. Neither should your data. Drill into any locality and benchmark it against the LGA, capital city, or state.

05

Insights, not just numbers

Every topic page includes a plain-English summary of what the data means. Your team spends time on decisions, not interpretation.

06

The same ABS source data

We use the same Census DataPacks and official ABS releases as every other platform. The difference is how we present it — and how fast your team can find what they need.

faster

From blank page to compelling grant application in minutes, not days.

Your team has a grant brief and a deadline. Point the tools you already use at your CityCompass page and the relevant demographics, benchmarks, and local evidence get pulled in automatically — structured into a compelling first draft with real numbers. No manual searching. No re-keying statistics from screenshots.

Ask us to show you how. It's the part of the demo that changes the conversation.

The Platform

Who lives here. Where it's heading.
How the economy's tracking.

Three questions every council needs to answer. One platform that answers all of them.

Community Explorer

Who lives in your LGA? How is that changing? Answer every demographic question from grant applications to community plans — without touching a spreadsheet.

Service age groups & five-year breakdowns
Birthplace, ancestry, language data
Housing tenure & dwelling types
Benchmark against any geography
2016 to 2021 change analysis

Population Projections

Where is your population heading? Plan infrastructure, services, and development with small-area forecasts by age, household type, and dwelling.

Forecast population by age cohort
Household & dwelling projections
Component of change analysis
Scenario modelling capability
Annual projection increments

Economic Insight

How is your local economy tracking? Building activity, employment trends, and industry data — updated monthly, with trend smoothing that reveals the signal in the noise.

Building approvals with rolling overlay
Employment & unemployment trends
Industry & occupation profiles
Monthly data with trend smoothing
Automated ABS data refresh

Built For Your Workflow

The data jobs you already do.
Done faster.

01

Grant applications

Point your favourite writing tool at CityCompass and your LGA's stats, benchmarks, and evidence land in a polished first draft automatically. Councils report a 5× speed-up over their old workflow.

02

Community & council plans

Build the demographic evidence base for your four-year plan without commissioning a separate report. The data is already structured for it.

03

Advocacy to state & federal government

Make the case for infrastructure, services, or funding with small-area evidence that shows exactly where need is growing.

04

Annual reporting

Pre-built insights and exportable tables mean populating your annual report is a copy-paste job, not a data analysis project.

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Service planning

Service age groups and population forecasts show where demand is heading at the small-area level — so you can plan facilities before the pressure hits.

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Economic development strategy

Building approvals, employment trends, and industry composition give your economic development team current evidence, not last year's snapshot.

Only From Geografia

No other platform can pair demographics
with real spending data.

CityCompass tells you who lives in your community. Spendmapp shows you how and where they spend. Bundle any CityCompass module with Spendmapp and your council gets a local intelligence capability that doesn't exist anywhere else — at a significantly lower combined price.

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Flexible By Design

Pick the modules you need.
Bundle with Spendmapp to save.

Choose one module or all three — whatever fits your council's needs.

Community Explorer

Age structure & service age groups
Cultural diversity & birthplace
Housing, income & education
Benchmark against any geography

Population Projections

Forecast by age cohort
Household & dwelling projections
Component of change
Annual projection increments

Economic Insight

Building approvals & trends
Employment & industry data
Monthly data with smoothing
Automated ABS refresh
BEST VALUE

Bundle any module with Spendmapp

Pair any CityCompass module with Spendmapp local spending data for the complete local intelligence stack.

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Built by Geografia.

Geografia is an Australian spatial analytics firm that's been building data products for local government for over a decade. We created Spendmapp — Australia's most widely adopted local spending analytics platform. CityCompass is the next step: bringing the same modern, automated approach to demographic and economic intelligence.

10+
Years building for local gov
100+
Councils using our products
LGA+small area
Council and local-area profiles

Book a live walkthrough.

Pick a time that suits you and book directly on this page.

  • 30-minute walkthrough with your council use cases
  • Questions on modules, pricing, and rollout
  • A live look at the grant and reporting workflow

Prefer email instead? hello@geografia.com.au