Community Pulse Dashboards

Prefer to explore? 380+ interactive dashboards.

Your gateway to actionable insights and better decisions — New Zealand’s curated public-sector data, built into interactive dashboards across every theme.

Free national layer
Area-level detail on annual licence
GeoJSON exports
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Pulse
[District] · Economy
2024TA level
Population
[X]
[±X%]
Filled jobs
[X]
[±X%]
GDP
[X]
[±X%]
Trend · illustrative
800+
datasets in the data lake
40+
official agencies as sources
380+
interactive dashboards
25+
client organisations
Two layers

Start free. Go deeper
when the detail matters.

National Summary Layer

Every council on one consistent set of definitions — so a comparison between two councils is already apples-to-apples.

All 78 councils — 67 territorial authorities and 11 regional councils
80+ comparable indicators
National summary dashboards
Standard NZ geography, TA level
Access is immediate — no card required
67 territorial authorities11 regional councils
Detailed Area Layer

Area-level data for the questions a national summary can’t answer — priced against what your organisation needs.

Everything in the national layer
380+ interactive dashboards
Meshblock, SA1 and SA2 detail
GeoJSON boundary and geography exports
Compare and combine areas
An onboarding walkthrough and a named contact
Regionregional council
Territorial authoritycity / district
SA2suburb-sized
SA1 · Meshblockfinest detail
Dashboard collections

Every theme, already built.

Dashboard collections in the portal cover all 13 themes, local government elections included.

Local Government Elections
Education
Population
Economy
Health
Housing
Transport
Society
Tourism
Environment
Labour Market
Income
Governance
All dashboards
Compare & combine

Explain a combined
entity, in hours.

When districts are proposed to combine, you need the joined-up picture fast. Build it from the same consistent definitions.

Combine areas

Add districts together and see them as one combined area.

Compare side by side

Put a combined area next to its parts, or next to another region.

Take it with you

Export figures and boundaries for your own reports and GIS work.

Combined view · [indicator]
Illustrative
District A
District B
Combined
In use

Already at work in Aotearoa.

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
Ask or explore

Two ways into the same data.

Ask in Claude

When you know the question. One plain-English question, one sourced answer — no browsing.

250+ datasets, 13 themes
Every figure with its receipt
Reports, decks and infographics on request
Explore in Dashboards

When you want to look around. Filter, compare and export across 380+ dashboards.

800+ datasets from 40+ agencies
Meshblock to regional detail
GeoJSON boundary exports
Dashboards pricing

Simple to start.

Community Pulse Connector has its own plans — see Pricing.

Free
National Summary Layer
NZ$0

All 78 councils, 80+ indicators. No card, no waiting.

Annual licence
Detailed Area Layer
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Priced against your organisation’s needs. RFP and procurement documentation on request.

See your own council in the national picture.

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