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Different questions.
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Pick your team to see the questions people like you ask, and the reports that answer them best.
Local & Regional Councils
Evidence for planning decisions, community consultation, LTP/annual plan reporting, and elected-member briefings.
QUESTIONS TEAMS LIKE YOURS ASK
How has our district’s population changed over the last decade?
Compare jobs and GDP between our district and our neighbours.
Is recorded crime up or down in our district this year?
REPORTS TO START WITH
THEMES YOU’LL USE MOST
PopulationEconomySociety & Communities
Government & Policy Makers
A cross-theme evidence base to design, refine, and evaluate policy without commissioning new research.
QUESTIONS TEAMS LIKE YOURS ASK
How do regions compare on deprivation?
How have regional economies moved since 2019?
Where are road crashes most concentrated?
REPORTS TO START WITH
THEMES YOU’LL USE MOST
Income & EquityEconomyTransport
Economic Development Agencies
Sector strengths, business growth and investment cases for your region, grounded in official data.
QUESTIONS TEAMS LIKE YOURS ASK
Which industries employ the most people in our region?
Has our region’s GDP grown faster than the national picture?
Do an Industry Deep Dive on tourism in our district.
REPORTS TO START WITH
THEMES YOU’LL USE MOST
EconomyLabour MarketTourism
Healthcare Organisations
Population, deprivation and wellbeing context for service planning, needs assessments and funding cases.
QUESTIONS TEAMS LIKE YOURS ASK
What’s the deprivation index for South Auckland?
What’s the age profile of the population we serve?
Which small areas in our region are growing fastest?
REPORTS TO START WITH
THEMES YOU’LL USE MOST
Health & WellbeingPopulationIncome & Equity
Social & Community Organisations and Marae
Needs assessments, funding applications, and impact reporting backed by verified national and regional data.
QUESTIONS TEAMS LIKE YOURS ASK
What’s the deprivation index for our area?
How has the population of our area changed?
Build a funding-ready profile of our district.
REPORTS TO START WITH
THEMES YOU’LL USE MOST
Society & CommunitiesPopulationIncome & Equity
Researchers & Academics
A ready-made, continuously updated data lake spanning every theme, to accelerate analysis and publication.
QUESTIONS TEAMS LIKE YOURS ASK
How has employment by industry changed across regions?
Compare two districts on the same measures and period.
What does the data plainly not cover?
REPORTS TO START WITH
THEMES YOU’LL USE MOST
Every theme
Schools, Colleges, Universities & Students
Fast, guided access to New Zealand statistics for teaching, assignments, theses, and dissertations.
QUESTIONS TEAMS LIKE YOURS ASK
What can I ask about my region?
Show me population trends for my assignment region.
Compare crime and road crashes for two districts.
REPORTS TO START WITH
THEMES YOU’LL USE MOST
Education & SkillsPopulationEvery theme
Businesses & Investors
Market sizing, site selection, and regional opportunity analysis grounded in official data.
QUESTIONS TEAMS LIKE YOURS ASK
Which districts have the largest economies?
Compare jobs and GDP between Tauranga and Hamilton.
How many business locations are in our industry here?
REPORTS TO START WITH
THEMES YOU’LL USE MOST
EconomyLabour Market & Business
Media & Journalists
Quick fact-checking and story-ready statistics on demographics, the economy, and social trends.
QUESTIONS TEAMS LIKE YOURS ASK
Is recorded crime up or down in this district this year?
Has GDP grown faster in Hamilton City, or the region as a whole?
Where are road crashes most concentrated?
REPORTS TO START WITH
THEMES YOU’LL USE MOST
Society & CommunitiesEconomy
Consultants & Analysts
A single connector to draw on for client deliverables, instead of hunting across many source sites.
QUESTIONS TEAMS LIKE YOURS ASK
Build a Regional Profile for our client’s district.
Compare two areas, checked like for like.
Write a Policy Brief for a council audience.
REPORTS TO START WITH
THEMES YOU’LL USE MOST
Every theme
Why teams switch
Stop guessing. Stop digging.
Community Pulse puts New Zealand’s real, sourced regional statistics one plain-English question away.
THE OLD WAY
Digging, for days.
Search agency websites one by one
Download PDFs and spreadsheets
Reconcile definitions that don’t match
Hope you picked the right place and year
Copy figures into a report by hand
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Just ask.
Ask one plain-English question in Claude
A real query runs against real datasets
Place names matched — ambiguity flagged
Source, unit and period attached
Turn it into Word or PowerPoint on request
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Regional council · Community Pulse Dashboards
A Regional Council
Uses Community Pulse’s boundary and geography data — GeoJSON exports and area hierarchies — to map catchments and overlay growth trends across the territorial authorities in the region.
See Community Pulse Dashboards →WHAT THEY USE
GeoJSON boundary exports
Nested area hierarchies across the region’s districts
Growth trends overlaid on catchments