"Thrive" To flourish, prosper or succeed, be healthy, grow and develop strongly, and to realise one’s full potential.
Thriving cities are built on connection, innovation, and sustainability. They’re built by data-driven decisions that foster vibrant communities, healthy environments and communities, and create a resilient future for all.
We’ve brought together a comprehensive collection of spatial data from across sectors - environment, planning, health, population, and more - and transformed it into ready-to-use, easy-to-understand datasets, all within a single, intuitive platform.
What is the Thriving Perth Portal?
One Platform. Endless Insights.
The Thriving Perth Portal is an interactive web-based mapping and decision-support tool that brings together spatial data from across key domains - including environment, planning, hydrology, climate, population, and health - into a single, accessible resource, enabling enable local governments to visualise and analyse the distribution of health determinants, outcomes, and environmental factors within their communities.
By integrating datasets from multiple government agencies, the portal enables a coordinated, whole-of-system response to planning, public health and environmental challenges and fosters cross-sector collaboration to address the broader determinants of health and wellbeing.
No GIS Skills or Experience? No Problem.
While many spatial datasets have been available, accessing and using them often requires specialised GIS expertise and software.
No GIS skills or specialised software is required to use the Thriving Perth Portal. Its intuitive design and preloaded spatial layers allow users to easily visualise and interpret data, enabling place-based insights that support informed, evidence-led decisions.
What's included?
The Thriving Perth Portal covers the Perth metropolitan area and brings together spatial datasets we’ve sourced from a wide range of state and local Government Departments, industry and research organisations.
The collated data layers that encompass a diverse range of areas these under four broad categories:
PLACE
CLOSE BY ...
PLANET
ROUTES TO ...
PEOPLE
COMMUNITY PERCEPTIONS & EXPERIENCES
PROSPERITY
LGA SUMMARY REPORTS
Lets Break it Down
The spatial data layers are organised into a range of sub-themes that highlight the intricate connections between people, places, and the systems that help them thrive. This unique integrated approach empowers users to explore and understand the full picture of urban and environmental dynamics.
Please be aware that whilst we are actively developing and improving the Portal you may notice occasional updates or changes to the spatial data layers.
PLACE
Datasets that map and measure the physical, built, social features and movement networks and of local areas.
Administrative boundaries
Divisions and borders of jurisdictions including: local government areas, suburbs, SA1s, sub-regions, regional development commission boundaries.
Community facilities
Libraries, community resource centres
Heritage
Aboriginal settlements & places, heritage register
Parks and public open space
parks, public open spaces
Playgrounds & active recreation facilities
Playgrounds, skate parks, BMX tracks, pump tracks, bike tracks, basketball half courts.
Road networks
Road hierarchy, legal speed limits
Infrastructure & Utilities
Over head powerlines, underground utilities (sewer assets, drainage assets, power assets), powerline restriction zones.
Sport & recreation facilities
Sport and recreation centres, swimming pools
Active transport
Footpaths, cycle paths, pedestrian crossings, bike racks, bike counts on cycle routes, crash locations involving bikes, BikeSpot crowdsourced perceptions of cycling safety.
Food & alcohol
Fast food chains, supermarket chains, petrol station (convenience stores), farmers markets, community gardens, off-premises alcohol licenses, on-premises alcohol licenses
Housing diversity & density
Residential density, dwelling diversity
Planning & development
Land use, growth/density areas, cultural and heritage areas
Public transport
Train stations (including new and proposed Metronet stations), bus stops, ferry stops, TransWA stops, train lines/routes, bus service routes, school bus service routes. ferry routes
Sewerage sensitive areas
Sewerage sensitive areas
Utilities
Over head powerlines, underground utilities (sewer assets, drainage assets, power assets), powerline restriction zones.
PLANET
Layers that map and measure the environmental conditions and natural assets.
Coastal conditions
Sea level rise, coastal planning areas
Fauna
Black cockatoo roosting and foraging sites
Topograpy
Two-metre contours
Urban Greening
Tree canopy cover, grass cover, vegetation cover + tree canopy cover in walkable catchment areas - train stations, bus stops, primary schools, secondary schools, hopsitals, aged care centres.
Urban heat
Mean summer land surface temperatures (CSIRO estimate for capital cities) + mean land surface temperate estimates in walkable catchment areas around: primary schools, secondary schools, train stations, bus stops; Integrated Heat Vulnerability Index by SA1.
Bushland & vegetation
Bush forever, vegetation complexes, remnant vegetation, habitat corridors, WALGA ecological linkages, geoheritage areas, environmentally sensitive areas, EPA Redbook conservation reserves.
Flood
Flood levels
Soil
Soil groups, soils zones, soil systems, 2-metre contours, acid sulphate risk, surface salinity, surface acidity and risk, phosphorous export risk, soil water storage, waterlogging risk, flood risk, site drainage potential, water repellence risk, wind erosion risk, land instability risk.
Waterways & wetlands
Waterbodies, consanguineous wetlands, directory of important wetlands, Ramsar wetlands, waterways conservation act management areas hydrographic catchments, foreshore conditions.
PEOPLE
Layers that provide insight into population demographics, health and wellbeing, and safety of local areas.
Community services
GPs, dentists, pharmacies, aged care centres, child care centres
Demographics
LGA, suburbs and SA1 data on: population numbers, cultural diversity (ABS Census country of birth & ancestry data), socio-economic indices for areas (SEIFA), mortgage and rental stress.
Crime
Crime statistics against persons, crime statistics against property.
Health & Wellbeing
ABS Census 2021 - long-term health conditions (LGA, suburb & SA1), Social Health Atlas of Australia - weight status & obesity of adults & children, mental health, physical activity, blood pressure, smoking, alcohol consumption, fruit consumption, Australian Early Development Census (AEDC).
PROSPERITY
Layers that capture the educational, economic and socio-economic factors that shape community opportunity and equity.
Education
Education level, primary schools, secondary schools, non-government schools, TAFEs
Energy
Residential solar panel installations, electric vehicle public charger locations.
Income & jobs
Household income, mortgage and rental stress, labour force
Socio-Economic Indexes for Areas (SEIFA)
SA1 and suburb-level Index of Relative Socio-Economic Disadvantage (IRSD), The Index of Relative Socio-Economic Advantage and Disadvantage (IRSAD), The Index of Education and Occupation (IEO), The Index of Economic Resources (IER).
CLOSE BY ...
Indicators that map access from residential street blocks to a wide range of everyday destinations, revealing how many are within a 1-km walk from every street block in Perth.
No. of different destination types
The number of different destination types accessible within a 15 minute / 1-km walk from residential street blocks.
Access to types of destinations
Access to each of the following destinations: aged care centres, alcohol outlets – on premises licenses and off-premises (takeaway) licenses, bus stops, child care centres, community gardens, dentists, farmers markets, fast food outlets, GP surgeries, libraries, parks and public open spaces, petrol station convenience stores, pharmacies, playgrounds, shopping centres, supermarkets, active recreation spaces (skate parks, BMX tracks, pump tracks, basketball half courts).
ROUTES TO ...
Indicators that map and measure the pedestrian and cycling experience on streets to everyday destinations, focusing on elements of infrastructure, safety, and comfort.
Routes to schools
Footpath provision and shade over footpaths on the routes within school 800-metre walkable catchment areas.
Footpath provision
Maps and measures the provision of footpaths along roads and within walkable catchment area of key destinations.
Shady streets index
Maps and measures the shade from tree canopy cover along footpaths and within walkable catchment areas of key destinations.
Lit streets index
Maps and measures how effectively footpaths in streets and public spaces are illuminated from streetlights.