Development indicators report

Gain insight into development activity on the Sunshine Coast. Council's development indicators report provides a health check on our local development industry.

Find out more about the amount and the types of development on the Sunshine Coast. Our reports contain information on planning, subdivision, plumbing, building and construction activity. They also include information on assessment of development applications.

• 2022/2023 indicator report (PDF, 1MB)
• 2022/2023 highlights (PDF, 364KB).

Highlights of the report include:

• the value of building construction
• growth suburbs
• statistics for key stages of development
• comparisons from previous years.

Maps

• 2017 significant development map (PDF, 2.6MB) and explanatory note (PDF, 93KB)
• 2014-2019 building approvals heat map (PDF, 2.5MB) and explanatory note (DOCX, 3.1MB)
• 2017 residential approvals; excluding dwellings, heat map (PDF, 2.1MB) and explanatory note (PDF, 600KB).

Historical reports

View historical reports from 2018 onwards.

These reports are available for industry, media, community groups and public use. Please acknowledge Sunshine Coast Council as the source of the information.

We publish updated information yearly. We use information from council's development application records to produce the reports.

Keep up to date on development in your community. Visit Development.i to start your search.

Contact council's development services for more information or provide feedback on the report.

Disclaimer

Council provides the information in the development indicators report as a general reference source only. Refer to council’s website disclaimer.