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Indicators of quality of life and city services by year

Created 10/01/2026

Updated 27/03/2026

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The World Council on City Data (WCCD) awarded the City of Melbourne a platinum designation for its compliance with ISO 37120 (http://www.iso.org/iso/catalogue_detail?csnumber=62436), the world’s first international standard for city indicators. Reporting to the standard allows cities to compare their service delivery and quality of life to other cities globally. The City of Melbourne was one on 20 cities to, globally to help pilot this program and is one of sixteen cities to receive the highest level of accreditation (platinum).

Having an international standard methodology to measure city performance allows the City of Melbourne to share data about practices in service delivery, learn from other global cities, rank its results relative to those cities, and address common challenges through more informed decision making.

Indicators include: Fire and emergency response; Governance; Health; Recreation; Safety; Shelter; Solid Waste; Telecommunications and Innovation; Transportation; Urban Planning; Wastewater; Water and Sanitation; Economy; Education; Energy; Environment; and Finance.

City of Melbourne also submitted an application for accreditation, on behalf of ‘Greater Melbourne’, to the World Council on City Data and this resulted in an ‘Aspirational’ accreditation awarded to wider Melbourne.

A summary of Melbourne's results is available here (http://open.dataforcities.org/). Visit the World Council on City Data’s Open Data Portal to compare our results to other cities from around the world.

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Title Indicators of quality of life and city services by year
Language English
Licence Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/en/dataset/e7b39a0e-1754-45b4-a551-504f9bb194b4
Remote Last Updated 14/12/2022
Contact Point
City of Melbourne Open Data
opendata@melbourne.vic.gov.au
Reference Period 14/12/2022
Geospatial Coverage Melbourne
Data Portal Melbourne Data

Data Source

This dataset was originally found on Melbourne Data "Indicators of quality of life and city services by year". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://data.melbourne.vic.gov.au/explore/dataset/indicators-of-quality-of-life-and-city-services-by-year/