Source: printed handout
The Blue Mountains City Council has three demographic packages available on the Blue Mountains website:
These packages are:
Profile is located at: www.id.com.au/profile/BlueMountains
This site presents 2006 census data for small township areas and the Blue Mountains. It covers topics such as the number of ;persons within each age group, household numbers and types, household and individual incomes, employment and unemployment status, levels of car ownership, education levels, number of persons born overseas and much more.,
You can choose a topic from the left hand side menu and then view the same topic for a township area by clicking on the township menu at the bottom of the page.
You can customise your own table, i.e. different age brackets, by clicking on the download data button on the left hand side menu and following the prompts.
You can overview key statistics for a township area map by clicking on the Area Selection button on the left hand side menu, and click on Key statistics. If you click on Introduction in this same section you can get an aerial map of the town (choose between a road map version or an aerial photograph).
You can export tables and charts from Profile into your own documents. To copy a table - highlight the table, right click copy and past into Excel. Then highlight the table in Excel, right click copy and paste into your Word document.
Each of the sites below (Atlas and Forecast) are linked from Profile. The link is located on the left hand side of the page under Other websites.
Shortly to be updated with 2006 data, but currently based on 2001 Census data. This site contains socio-demographic data for the Blue Mountains as a range of interactive maps.
Based on 2001 Census data, this site predicts population numbers for the Blue Mountains and small township areas for each year until 2021.
To access more data, log on to the staff access area with:
There is a training manual located on each site.
Data from the 2006 census