Sample report · synthetic demonstration data
This is not an analysis of a real address. It demonstrates the national demand model, evidence explanations and print layout using invented catchment, centre and planning inputs.
Example site assessment
Fictional example site · 10-minute drive catchment · All example sections open
Drive-time catchment map
1 saved application, residential and traffic markers shown, capped at 60.
Saved service records. Recorded places do not establish current register presence, operation or current catchment supply. Schematic location map. School coverage may be incomplete; missing records are not evidence that no schools exist. Sources, distances, enrolment years and comparable trends are in the school evidence table.
Centre map locations may use property points from Geoscape Australia, August 2026 Open G-NAF. Incorporates or developed using G-NAF © Geoscape Australia licensed by the Commonwealth of Australia under the Open G-NAF End User Licence Agreement. Data source · Copyright and disclaimer. Reviewed locations may also use The Government of South Australia, Location SA address and valuation service, sourced on 3 October 2026, under CC BY 4.0. No government endorsement is implied. Property points are approximate and do not establish current operation.
Your area at a glance
Key numbers
10-minute drive catchment
Commercial LDC ratio
2.7 children per place
Children aged 0–5 per long day care place
EstimateHow this is calculated: Commercial LDC ratio
Illustrative example only. Fictional ages 0–5 population inputs demonstrate the report layout and calculation. They are not population observations or forecasts for a real area. Divide children aged 0–5 by approved long day care places in the selected area.
Source: Fictional demonstration data
Data date: 2026
10-minute drive catchment
Potential competition
2.7 children per place
2,500 modelled children aged 0–5 in 2031. Supply assumes all approved projects open.
EstimateHow this is calculated: Potential competition
Illustrative example only. Fictional ages 0–5 population inputs demonstrate the report layout and calculation. They are not population observations or forecasts for a real area. Divide the forecast child count by current places plus net additional approved places. Pending, refused, withdrawn and completed projects are excluded. Missing project capacity is never zero.
Source: Fictional demonstration data
Data date: 2031
10-minute drive catchment
Childcare places
842
Approved long day care capacity
How this is calculated: Childcare places
Illustrative example only. Sum approved long day care places in the selected area. This is capacity, not vacancies available for enrolment.
Source: Fictional demonstration data
10-minute drive catchment
Children aged 0–5
2,232
2026 estimate, including five-year-olds
EstimateHow this is calculated: Children aged 0–5
Illustrative example only. Fictional ages 0–5 population inputs demonstrate the report layout and calculation. They are not population observations or forecasts for a real area.
Source: Fictional demonstration data
Data date: 2026
10-minute drive catchment
Home ownership
67.1%
NSW 65.7%
EstimateHow this is calculated: Home ownership
Illustrative example only. 2021 Census owned and mortgaged occupied private dwellings divided by all tenure categories, including not stated. Local counts are allocated by the proportion of each statistical area inside the selected boundary.
Source: Fictional demonstration data
Data date: 2021
10-minute drive catchment
SEIFA economic resources
7 / 10
Fictional example area area; 10 is the highest group
How this is calculated: SEIFA economic resources
Illustrative example only. ABS economic-resources decile for the address statistical area. This is area context, not individual wealth or an average of deciles.
Source: Fictional demonstration data
Data date: 2021
Fictional example area
Fertility rate
1.81
Fictional example area, 2022–2024 · Australia 1.54
How this is calculated: Fertility rate
Illustrative example only. Births per woman. Local 2022–2024 rates are compared with the mean of the Australian annual rates for 2022, 2023 and 2024: (1.631 + 1.499 + 1.481) ÷ 3 = 1.537. This is a derived same-period benchmark. State fallback comparisons use matching annual periods.
Source: Fictional demonstration data
Data date: 2022–2024
Fictional example area
Average daily fee
$154
9 centres with published daily fees, before subsidy
How this is calculated: Average daily fee
Illustrative example only. Mean published daily fee across long day care centres in the selected area. Hourly fees are not converted to daily fees.
Source: Fictional demonstration data
Data date: 2026-05-31
10-minute drive catchment
Childcare developments (DAs)
1 approved project in the saved assessment · 96 additional places
Childcare developments
Childcare projects
1
Additional childcare places
96
1 DA with verified places
Example site A, main-road location
96 additional places · 96 total places after works
EXAMPLE-001 · approved
- Type
- childcare centre
- Total places
- 96
- Lodgement date
- 18 Mar 2026
- Distance from address
- 1.7 km
Residential demand
Housing projects and future family demand
Strong (89/100)
Parent demand: Strong. This catchment has many young children, high employment among parents of young children, and young-child growth, so childcare demand looks deeper than population alone suggests.
Families living inside the catchment look like a strong demand base.
Worker demand needs commuter inflow evidence.
How resident and worker demand is calculated
Estimated resident children aged 0-4 using approved care at least once in a quarter. This is not average daily places.
Illustrative population input; not an ABS observation for this example site
Source date: 2021 Census
Open sourceWhy it is used: This is the local population pool that could require early childhood care.
ABS 2021 Census G47A and G48A family tables; SA2 usual residence, catchment-weighted. High confidence from 1,000 weighted parent records and 95% child-population coverage.
Source date: 2021 Census
Open sourceWhy it is used: Work can affect a family’s need for care. We show this local fact, but it does not change the estimate yet because we do not have current proof of how much it should change it.
753,040 children aged 0-4 used CCS-approved care during March quarter 2026. Australia had 1,517,435 children aged 0-4 at 30 June 2025. 753,040 divided by 1,517,435 = 49.6%. This is current Australian evidence, not a measured rate for this address.
Source date: March quarter 2026 care use; 30 June 2025 population
Open sourceWhy it is used: Imagine 100 Australian children aged 0-4. About 50 used approved care during the quarter. We use that as the starting point because it is current and matches the same ages as the local child count.
1,860 children aged 0-4 x 49.6% current Australian approved-care rate = 923.0, rounded to 923 estimated resident children using care during a quarter.
Why it is used: This estimates distinct resident children using care during the quarter, not daily places.
Official origin-to-destination flows are not loaded for this catchment.
Source date: worker-demand-v3.1-2026-08-31
Why it is used: No worker-linked place estimate is used because commuter evidence is incomplete. See Worker-demand scenario for a separate historical illustration where catchment evidence is sufficient.
Why this method: Resident quarterly users and worker-linked places are shown separately because they cannot be added as the same unit.
Sources: ABS local child population evidence; Australian Government Department of Education March quarter 2026 CCS data and ABS June 2025 national population estimates, March quarter 2026 care use; 30 June 2025 population. Local parent-employment context comes from ABS 2021 Census G47A and G48A family tables, 2021 Census, and does not change the current estimate. Worker evidence uses worker-demand-v3.1-2026-08-31.
Limitation: This is a modelled estimate, not a headcount of local children who need care. The 49.6% starting point is current for Australia, but it is not measured for this address. A child is counted after at least one charged session in the quarter, whether they attended once or every week. Enrolment comparisons may also include part-time and out-of-area children. Origin-to-destination worker flows are not loaded, so net worker inflow is only a conservative lower bound and cannot measure gross inbound commuting. Incoming-worker origins do not yet have sufficient evidence for young children in employed families per resident worker, so the local resident-parent proxy is context only. A paid formal-care use rate has not been resolved for the origins of incoming workers. Fewer than 80% of observed incoming workers have both origin child-worker and paid-care evidence. No independently validated care-near-work selection rate is loaded, so worker-linked places are excluded from the central demand estimate. The 2021 Census place-of-work snapshot was affected by pandemic-era work-from-home behaviour.
Worker evidence is incomplete, so no worker-linked places are added to central demand.
Worker-demand scenario
Historical illustration. Excluded from demand totals and scores.
A catchment scenario needs gross origin-to-destination flows. A net worker balance cannot supply them.
Based on ABS Childhood Education and Care, June 2017: 81,000 of 573,900 weighted children aged 0–4 using long day care in a usual week had care chosen close to work or on the way to work. Children selecting both reasons are counted once. These are population estimates, not respondent counts. The national rate is 14.1%, with an approximate 11.8–16.5% survey interval derived from ABS relative standard errors. This is not an uncertainty interval for catchment demand. It predates CCS and COVID; commuting inputs use the 2021 Census, when work-from-home patterns were unusual. Care on the way to work can be near home or outside the workplace catchment. The national assumption is used across Australia, not presented as locally measured behaviour. The survey excluded people living in Indigenous communities, so it does not establish behaviour there.
| Driver | Status | Metric | Source / freshness | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Young children nearby | Positive | 1,860 | ABS ERP / Census demographics; Latest loaded demographic year | There is a large nearby pool of children under school age. |
| Age 5 / school-transition pressure | Not scored | About 338 (2021) | ABS 2021 Census, Households and family context; Historical Census 2021 | Current age-five school-transition pressure is not scored. Historical Census age-five context, where loaded, is shown separately in Households and family context. |
| Family households | Not scored | About 4,900 (2021) | ABS 2021 Census, Households and family context; Historical Census 2021 | Family households are not a demand multiplier. Historical Census household context, where loaded, is shown separately in Households and family context. |
| Working-parent signal | Positive | 62% | ABS 2021 Census G47A and G48A family tables; local observed rate; 2021 Census | A high share of local parents of children aged 0-4 are employed, supporting regular childcare need. |
| Local income / affordability | Neutral | $154/day avg fee | StartingBlocks published LDC fees; historical household context shown separately; Latest fee date in report | Published fees describe nearby services. Historical Census income, where loaded, is shown separately; it does not establish current affordability or willingness to pay. |
| Resident users per quarter | Positive | 923 children | Australian Government Department of Education March quarter 2026 CCS data and ABS June 2025 national population estimates; resident-approved-care-v2.0-2026-08-31; March quarter 2026 care use; 30 June 2025 population; Low confidence regional prior | Families living inside the catchment create a strong base of childcare need. |
| Worker/commuter demand | Unknown | Unknown | Census 2021 Working Population Profile; Needs evidence | Worker inflow data is missing, so work-adjacent demand cannot be judged. |
| CCS service-location enrolments | Neutral | 535 service-location enrolments | DoE CCS enrolments for ages 0-5 apportioned from SA3; 2025-Q4 | This is a separate service-location signal. It does not measure daily occupancy or unmet resident demand. |
| Population growth / young-family growth | Positive | 11.9% | ABS regional population trend; Latest loaded ABS trend | The young-child base is growing, which supports future family demand. |
| Primary schools nearby | Unknown | Unknown | Verified primary-school proximity unavailable for this state; Needs evidence | The report cannot make a school-proximity call until an official school register is loaded for this state. |
Nearby centres
12 long day care centres · 842 approved places
Observed services in this list: 21 services: 12 long day care (842 places) · 4 kindergarten/preschool (174 places) · 5 OOSH (280 places)
Saved service records. Recorded places do not establish current register presence, operation or current catchment supply.
Centre map locations may use property points from Geoscape Australia, August 2026 Open G-NAF. Incorporates or developed using G-NAF © Geoscape Australia licensed by the Commonwealth of Australia under the Open G-NAF End User Licence Agreement. Data source · Copyright and disclaimer. Reviewed locations may also use The Government of South Australia, Location SA address and valuation service, sourced on 3 October 2026, under CC BY 4.0. No government endorsement is implied. Property points are approximate and do not establish current operation.
| Centre | Type | Recorded places | Fee | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Example long day care 01Meeting NQS | Long day care | 70 | $138 | 1.0 km |
| Example long day care 02Meeting NQS | Long day care | 64 | $148 | 1.1 km |
| Example long day care 03Exceeding NQS | Long day care | 78 | $158 | 1.3 km |
| Example long day care 04Rating not recorded | Long day care | 62 | $168 | 1.4 km |
| Example long day care 05Meeting NQS | Long day care | 72 | - | 1.5 km |
| Example long day care 10Meeting NQS | Long day care | 74 | $136 | 1.9 km |
| Example long day care 11Meeting NQS | Long day care | 68 | $150 | 2.0 km |
| Example long day care 12Rating not recorded | Long day care | 72 | $156 | 2.2 km |
| Example long day care 13Meeting NQS | Long day care | 70 | $160 | 2.3 km |
| Example long day care 14Meeting NQS | Long day care | 64 | $168 | 2.4 km |
| Example long day care 15Exceeding NQS | Long day care | 78 | - | 2.5 km |
| Example long day care 16Rating not recorded | Long day care | 70 | - | 2.6 km |
| Example preschool 07Meeting NQS | Kindergarten/preschool | 40 | - | 1.1 km |
| Example preschool 09Exceeding NQS | Kindergarten/preschool | 40 | - | 1.4 km |
| Example preschool 18Exceeding NQS | Kindergarten/preschool | 44 | - | 2.0 km |
| Example preschool 20Rating not recorded | Kindergarten/preschool | 50 | - | 2.3 km |
| Example school-age care 06Exceeding NQS | OOSH | 42 | - | 1.0 km |
| Example school-age care 08Rating not recorded | OOSH | 44 | - | 1.3 km |
| Example school-age care 17Meeting NQS | OOSH | 36 | - | 1.9 km |
| Example school-age care 19Meeting NQS | OOSH | 48 | - | 2.2 km |
| Example school-age care 21Exceeding NQS | OOSH | 110 | - | 2.4 km |
Childcare trends in your wider region
Example wider region · Services and hourly fees
These trends cover the wider areas named below. They provide background to your site, beyond its drive-time or radius boundary. Your local figures remain in Key numbers.
Fictional example region and values, for demonstration only.
Example wider region
Wider statistical region, covering multiple suburbs
Includes centre-based, family day and outside school hours care
- Jan–Mar 202182
- Jan–Mar 202494
- Jan–Mar 2026103Latest available
Centre-based day care · Per hour, before subsidy
- Jan–Mar 2021$10.5050 services with fees
- Jan–Mar 2024$12.8058 services with fees
- Jan–Mar 2026$14.20Latest available65 services with fees
About these figures
We show the same quarter five and two years before the latest saved quarter. Dates are shown under each value. A missing value means it was not published in the saved records, not zero.
Service numbers count services that reported subsidised care during the quarter. A change in the total does not tell us which centres opened or closed. These records do not show historical approved places.
Fees are published averages per hour before subsidy. The services included can change between dates. Prices have not been adjusted for inflation.
We checked that these regional areas can be compared. The source does not name the map edition for every quarter, so those editions were identified from the area codes. Where no comparison check was saved, we show dated figures without joining them into a trend.
Source: fictional demonstration data. Evidence saved 2026-09-06. Latest available means the latest quarter in this saved report.
Fees
$154 average daily fee · 9 centres
Before subsidy
The middle published fee
Published fee sample
How the average fee is calculated
This is the average daily fee across the fictional long day care services with a fee, before subsidies.
Invented example fee, included to demonstrate the calculation.
Invented example fee, included to demonstrate the calculation.
Invented example fee, included to demonstrate the calculation.
Invented example fee, included to demonstrate the calculation.
Invented example fee, included to demonstrate the calculation.
Invented example fee, included to demonstrate the calculation.
Invented example fee, included to demonstrate the calculation.
Invented example fee, included to demonstrate the calculation.
Invented example fee, included to demonstrate the calculation.
Invented example fee, included to demonstrate the calculation.
Invented example fee, included to demonstrate the calculation.
Invented example fee, included to demonstrate the calculation.
Invented example fee, included to demonstrate the calculation.
Invented example fee, included to demonstrate the calculation.
Why this method: We compare like with like. Only long day care centres in the selected catchment with a published daily fee are used.
Sources: Fictional example service rows. These fees were not collected from StartingBlocks or a real centre.
Limitation: 3 other nearby LDC centres are listed as excluded because no usable daily fee was published. Fees can also differ by child age, session length and what the centre includes.
Today and likely future supply
2.7 children per place today · 2.7 children per place in 2031
What happens if all approved childcare projects open and the child population changes as projected? Both columns use the area selected on the map.
| Measure | Today | 2031 |
|---|---|---|
| Children aged 0–5 | 2,232 | 2,500 |
| Approved long day care places | 842 | 938 |
| Children per place | 2.7 | 2.7 |
Additional approved places: 96. Projects that add to an existing centre count only the extra places.
This is a scenario, not a promise that every project will open. Population estimates include five-year-olds already at school.
Estimate. See Key numbers for the population method and source dates.
Household and family context
7 / 10 economic resources · 1.81 births per woman
Census 2021. Local ranges describe the source areas that overlap your selected area. They include some homes outside it. State and Australian figures cover the whole state or country.
| Measure | Local area | NSW | Australia |
|---|---|---|---|
| SEIFA economic resourcesRank out of 10; 10 is highest | 7/10Published local range | National ranking: 1–10 | National ranking: 1–10 |
| Average household size | 2.8Published local range | 2.6 | 2.5 |
| Median age | 36Published local range | 39 | 38 |
| Family householdsShare of occupied homes | 70.0%Estimate for the selected area | 67.1% | 67.1% |
| Median household income | $2,100/weekPublished local range | $1,830/week | $1,750/week |
| Median family income | $2,500/weekPublished local range | $2,200/week | $2,120/week |
Fertility, births per woman
Compare local 2022–2024 rates with the Australian average for those same three years. Annual state and national figures are shown separately.
Fictional example area
1.81 births per woman
Whole source area, 2022–2024 · Australia 1.54
- NSW, 2024
- 1.49 births per woman
- Australia, 2024
- 1.48 births per woman
Income is weekly, in 2021 dollars. A median is the middle value. Family households contain at least one family. SEIFA economic resources compares area income and assets; it does not tell you a family's net worth.
Sources and calculation details
The Australian 2022–2024 fertility comparison is the mean of the ABS annual rates for those years. Family household shares use estimated family households divided by estimated occupied homes. Local medians and SEIFA ranks are kept as source-area ranges, rather than averaged.
These are historical 2021 Census observations, not current household estimates. The 2026 Census is scheduled to release most topics in June 2027.
Count estimates multiply each source-area count by its land-and-water area intersection fraction. This assumes uniform settlement and is unsuitable for sparse areas. Counts are rounded only for display; no statistical confidence interval is claimed.
Medians, averages and SEIFA deciles are shown as the range of published intersecting-area observations, never averaged into an exact catchment statistic. A range is not a confidence interval and can include people outside the catchment.
ABS perturbs Census counts for confidentiality. Small counts and differences between totals and components are not exact. Missing and suppressed values are unavailable; not-stated responses are not redistributed.
Families with children under five: a validated family-unit extract is not available. The separate 0–4 measure counts dependent children, not families.
Demographic context does not change demand, take-up, pricing or opportunity scores. Validate positioning through current fees, service design and local family research.
Fictional demonstration data. Reference 2021. Published 2026-09-06T00:00:00.000Z. Product demonstration.
Schools and preschools
Local schools and preschools
Government preschool evidence
No nearby fee-free preschool project found
Public preschool capacity is separate from long day care supply. Published daily places do not measure enrolments or attendance.
No government preschool project is recorded in this catchment.
Workforce and staffing
Educators and staffing
Commuter and workforce research
Refresh this report for workforce research. Catchments with unreliable SA2 allocation retain unavailable estimates.
Travel and work patterns
Travel and work patterns
Acquisition opportunity
Acquisition opportunity
Report changes
Financial assumptions
Financial assumptions
No financial assumptions were saved with this report.
Sources and calculations
Source dates and calculations
Sources and calculations
This report uses the selected drive-time catchment, available childcare supply data, published fee evidence, ABS demographic inputs, and report-safe DA pipeline evidence. Child Care Demand does not guess missing DA place counts or show unrelated demo applications as live evidence.
Calculation references
Catchments: childcaredemand.com/methodology#catchments · Demand: childcaredemand.com/methodology#demand · CCS capture: childcaredemand.com/methodology#ccs-capture · Pipeline: childcaredemand.com/methodology#pipeline · Staffing: childcaredemand.com/methodology#staffing · Supply: childcaredemand.com/methodology#supply
Council development application registers was last imported 6 Sept 2026, which is older than its 3-day refresh cycle. Rebuilding this report will not make it newer.
No freshness evidence is recorded for ACECQA approved childcare services. We cannot say how current this is.
StartingBlocks published fees was last imported 31 May 2026, which is older than its 120-day refresh cycle. Rebuilding this report will not make it newer. The information itself is dated 31 May 2026.
No freshness evidence is recorded for Residential development pipeline. We cannot say how current this is.
No freshness evidence is recorded for Census movement profiles and road traffic counts. We cannot say how current this is.
No freshness evidence is recorded for National Workforce Census qualifications. We cannot say how current this is.
Council development application registers was last imported 6 Sept 2026, which is older than its 3-day refresh cycle. Rebuilding this report will not make it newer.
How the key numbers are calculated
Commercial LDC ratio
Illustrative example only. Fictional ages 0–5 population inputs demonstrate the report layout and calculation. They are not population observations or forecasts for a real area. Divide children aged 0–5 by approved long day care places in the selected area.
- Source
- Fictional demonstration data
- Data date
- 2026
- Area covered
- 10-minute drive catchment
Estimate. Children aged 0–5 per long day care place
Potential competition
Illustrative example only. Fictional ages 0–5 population inputs demonstrate the report layout and calculation. They are not population observations or forecasts for a real area. Divide the forecast child count by current places plus net additional approved places. Pending, refused, withdrawn and completed projects are excluded. Missing project capacity is never zero.
- Source
- Fictional demonstration data
- Data date
- 2031
- Area covered
- 10-minute drive catchment
Estimate. 2,500 modelled children aged 0–5 in 2031. Supply assumes all approved projects open.
Childcare places
Illustrative example only. Sum approved long day care places in the selected area. This is capacity, not vacancies available for enrolment.
- Source
- Fictional demonstration data
- Data date
- Date being completed
- Area covered
- 10-minute drive catchment
Children aged 0–5
Illustrative example only. Fictional ages 0–5 population inputs demonstrate the report layout and calculation. They are not population observations or forecasts for a real area.
- Source
- Fictional demonstration data
- Data date
- 2026
- Area covered
- 10-minute drive catchment
Estimate. 2026 estimate, including five-year-olds
Home ownership
Illustrative example only. 2021 Census owned and mortgaged occupied private dwellings divided by all tenure categories, including not stated. Local counts are allocated by the proportion of each statistical area inside the selected boundary.
- Source
- Fictional demonstration data
- Data date
- 2021
- Area covered
- 10-minute drive catchment
Estimate. NSW 65.7%
SEIFA economic resources
Illustrative example only. ABS economic-resources decile for the address statistical area. This is area context, not individual wealth or an average of deciles.
- Source
- Fictional demonstration data
- Data date
- 2021
- Area covered
- Fictional example area
Fertility rate
Illustrative example only. Births per woman. Local 2022–2024 rates are compared with the mean of the Australian annual rates for 2022, 2023 and 2024: (1.631 + 1.499 + 1.481) ÷ 3 = 1.537. This is a derived same-period benchmark. State fallback comparisons use matching annual periods.
- Source
- Fictional demonstration data
- Data date
- 2022–2024
- Area covered
- Fictional example area
Average daily fee
Illustrative example only. Mean published daily fee across long day care centres in the selected area. Hourly fees are not converted to daily fees.
- Source
- Fictional demonstration data
- Data date
- 2026-05-31
- Area covered
- 10-minute drive catchment
| Ring | Area | Children 0-4 | Centres | LDC | Total places | LDC places | LDC places / child |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10-min drive | 31.6 km2 | 1,860 | 21 | 12 | 1,296 | 842 | 0.45 |
These numbers use only the drive-time catchment saved for this report. LDC places ÷ children 0-4. Excludes OOSH and standalone preschool/kindergarten places.