Community Pulse Reviews & Product Details

Community Pulse is a national community intelligence and benchmarking platform designed for councils, social organisations, trusts, and policy teams across Aotearoa New Zealand. The platform provides subscription-based access to 380+ interactive dashboards covering 13 cross-sector community, economic, social, and wellbeing themes for every territorial authority in New Zealand. These themes include: • Population & Demographics • Housing • Education & Skills • Economy & National Accounts • Health & Wellbeing • Labour Market • Income & Deprivation • Environment • Built Environment • Transport and accessibility National Benchmarking and Local Community Intelligence Community Pulse enables organisations to compare their communities with other regions across New Zealand while also exploring deep insights specific to their own territorial authority. Subscribers gain access to: • National benchmarking dashboards across all territorial authorities • Dedicated deep-dive dashboards for their own community • Long historical time-series insights • Cross-theme analysis across population, housing, economy, and wellbeing Integrated Data from Official Agencies Community Pulse integrates and harmonises datasets from 40+ official agencies, including Stats NZ, Ministry of Health, Ministry of Education, MBIE, MSD, and other national sources. The data is continuously updated in line with official release cycles, allowing organisations to focus on analysis rather than data gathering. Supporting Planning, Strategy, and Policy Organisations use Community Pulse to support: • Long-Term Plans • Annual Plans • Community wellbeing strategies • Policy development • Strategic planning • Elected member briefings • Community needs assessments • Funding applications Instead of building dashboards from scratch, teams gain access to a ready-to-use community intelligence layer maintained for their region.