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Council performance

The Office of Local Government (OLG) publishes performance information to improve the transparency and accountability of councils to their communities and identify opportunities for councils to improve their performance.

Information is released under the Tasmanian Government Open Data Policy 2016.

The information published by OLG is intended to complement the annual reports of the Auditor‑General on local government financial sustainability and its performance audits.

Reports from the Auditor-General can be found at www.audit.tas.gov.au/publications.

Access to raw council data

The information collected by OLG is called the Tasmanian Local Government Consolidated Data Collection (CDC). The CDC has been available to the public to access and use since 2017 and includes financial, infrastructure, human resource and planning data for Tasmania’s 29 councils.

The CDC datasets collected annually since 2000 can be downloaded via the open data portal of the Land Information System Tasmania (the LIST) by scrolling to the ‘Tasmanian Local Government Consolidated Data Collection (CDC)’. Note: the CDC data is the tenth last data set in the list of open data.

The downloadable CDC data files are Excel workbooks containing raw data.

The Office of Local Government does not guarantee that CDC data is correct. Since 2017-18, the financial data used in the CDC is audited council data and is consistent with the Auditor-General’s reports. All other data is checked only for completeness but is not audited.

For information about specific data in the CDC, contact the council concerned. Contact details for councils are available in the Tasmanian council directory.

Tasmanian Council Data Dashboards

As part of the Future of Local Government Review, the Local Government Board has published the Tasmanian Councils Data Dashboards.

The Dashboards provide information on some of the key activities and operations of Tasmanian councils using publicly available data sets. Data in the Dashboards is drawn from four main sources – the Australian Bureau of Statistics, the annual council Consolidated Data Collection, councils’ own audited financial reports, and the Tasmanian Electoral Commission.

The Dashboards are simple, interactive tools designed to help people understand the diversity of Tasmanian councils and the communities they serve. They include local community ‘snapshots’ for each of the State’s 29 councils as well as more detailed information about key financial trends over the past 10 years.