Infrastructure projects. Every council. One map.
HtAG Projects is a free map of more than 8,000 public and private infrastructure projects across Australia — roads, rail, schools, hospitals, energy, water and the rest of the built program — laid over every council. Non-residential building approvals show the pace. The pins name the works. Open a council and leave with the brief. No subscription, no login.
A national infrastructure projects database, without the subscription.
Elsewhere, a national database of infrastructure projects sits behind a premium research plan. Here every project, every council brief and every export — text, CSV, PNG and a printed brief — is free, with no login. What a HtAG subscription adds is what the market is doing about those works: HtAG RCS™ growth, risk and cashflow scores at suburb level, prices, rents and yields, and commercial listings and leasing data for the same councils.
See the works. Read the place. Take it to the client.
Built for buyer’s agents, and anyone preparing a client note on a suburb, a town or a region. Find the area. See what is coming and what has just finished. Leave with something that can sit in a report.
See the pace
See whether building in that council is ahead of or behind its own recent history. The colour measures the council against itself, not against its neighbours.
Read the projects
Proposed, active and completed, with the cost, the timing and who is delivering them. Each pin is a named project with a published cost.
Take it to the client
Copy it, download it, or print it for the client — as text, a spreadsheet, an image of the map, or an A4 brief with the map on it.
Two readings of the same country, on one screen.
The colour and the pins are different evidence, and the map keeps them that way.
Non-residential building approvals
For each council, the last 12 months of approvals set against that council’s own three-year average, weighted by the value of those approvals. 1.0 is in line with its own history. Below that, the council is quieter than its recent pace; above it, busier. The dollar value of those approvals sits beside the ratio, so a busy year and a large year can both be seen.
Named capital works
Each pin is one named project — roads, rail, schools, hospitals, energy, water and the other named programs — with a stage and the cost that was published.
The colour is the whole approvals total for the council. A pin is one named project. Together they answer both questions a client asks: is building running hot here, and what are the actual jobs.
A pin is a project. A shape is a brief.
Open a pin to read one piece of work. Click a council’s shape — or a name in the highest and lowest list — and the card becomes that council.
Open a pin
A roads project names the road and the town. An energy project names the company, what is being built and the capacity. A school, a hospital, a transmission line or a water scheme names the organisation building it.
- The name of the works, in plain language
- The stage, and whether it sits in proposed, active or completed
- The stated cost, in the form it was published — from a local upgrade to a multi-billion-dollar program
- The timing: a start and a finish where both are published, or the date in the words that belong to it — lodged, published, awarded, assessed, opened, or the year commercial operation is set for
- One line on the works, or on the body delivering them
- A citation ready to paste: name, stage, locality, source, the day it was copied, and the link
Click the shape
A written briefing, the ten largest projects split by where they are in their life, and the sources behind the account.
- The approvals sentence, in the same words as the colour: last 12 months against that council’s own three-year average, and the value of those approvals
- A written account of the place: the local economy, the works that define it, and what is worth watching
- How many named projects are in view, by type, split into proposed, active and completed — and the sum of their stated values
- The ten largest stated values, in three lists — proposed, active, completed — so an announced program and a finished road are not read as the same kind of news. Each with the cost, the stage, the timing and a line on the asset or the organisation delivering it
- The other projects, grouped by type
- The full overview: the argument of the place, the sections behind it, the takeaways, what to watch, and the sources — named and linked, one click away under Read full overview
Four ways out of the council card.
Whatever the client report looks like, the brief leaves the map in a form that drops straight into it.
Open Western Downs. The colour says how non-residential approvals compare with that council’s own recent years. The card names the gas projects in the billions, the transmission connections and the road upgrades, each marked proposed, active or completed, with a start and a finish where they have been published. The overview reads the place: agriculture, energy, and what those projects mean for a client looking at the region.
Copy the text, or print the brief with the map on it. That is the product.
Every control, in one place.
The colour key sits on the map: versus each council’s own average, from 0.5× to 2.0× and beyond.
Published by the bodies that build them.
The projects are the named works published by the bodies that build them and the registers that record them. A stated value is the cost published for that project, shown as published.
Infrastructure projects map: common questions
What the map covers, how to find the projects near a client’s property, and where the names come from.
Is there a free map of infrastructure projects in Australia?
Yes. HtAG Projects maps more than 8,000 named public and private infrastructure projects across every Australian council, free and with no login. Each project shows its stage, stated cost, timing and source, and each council opens into a written brief you can copy as text, download as a CSV or PNG, or print.
How do I find major infrastructure projects near me?
Use Find my council, or search a place, project or council name on the map. The council card lists the named projects there — proposed, active and completed — with the ten largest stated values first, followed by the rest grouped by type. Every council also has its own page in the council-by-council index.
How can I see upcoming infrastructure projects in a state?
Set the map to a state or capital city, then switch off Active and Completed so only proposed work shows. Narrow further by type — transport, school, health, energy, water and more — or by stated cost: $10 million, $50 million, or $100 million and over.
What is the difference between proposed, active and completed projects?
Proposed is work that has been announced or is in planning. Active is work that is approved, awarded or under construction. Completed is work that has been delivered. The council brief lists each group separately, so an announced program and a finished road are never read as the same kind of news.
What do the council colours on the map mean?
The colour is non-residential building approvals: the last 12 months for each council against that council’s own three-year average, weighted by the value of those approvals. 1.0 is in line with its own history; below is quieter, above is busier. It is the whole approvals total for the council, not the list of pins.
Where does the infrastructure project data come from?
From the bodies that build the works and the registers that record them: state transport, school and health agencies, energy and water utilities, the market operator, the Australian Government’s infrastructure and major projects lists, state infrastructure pipelines, Defence, and council development applications. Each stated value is the cost published for that project, shown as published.
Nine maps, one platform.
The works tell you what is being built. These tell you who lives there, what they earn, and what the property is doing.
LGA & Suburb Heatmaps
Prices, growth and yields across Australia at council and suburb level, plus the HtAG RCS™ composite scores.
Open residential heatmapCommercial Discovery Map
Industrial, office and retail listings, selling pace and leasing speed by council area.
Open commercial mapCensus Heatmap
Incomes, rents, tenure, education and SEIFA from the Census, by council, in today’s dollars.
Open census mapEmployment Heatmap
Unemployment, labour force and registered businesses across all 537 council areas.
Open employment mapPopulation Heatmap
Population change split into births, internal moves and overseas migration.
Open population mapLocal Services Heatmap
Childcare, hospitals and aged care by council area — who can actually live in a market.
Open services mapMarkets in the Moment (MiM)
A nested treemap giving an instant bird’s-eye view of the residential market.
Open MiMHtAG SchoolRank™
Every Australian school mapped by education quality.
Open SchoolRankHtAG Projects
Named capital works and non-residential building approvals, by council.
You’re hereThe works are named. The pace is measured against the place itself. The brief is ready to send.
Start with the council your client is looking at. Then take it into the price, rent and yield data behind the same place.
Sources: named capital works as published by the state, territory and Commonwealth agencies, utilities, market operators and registers listed above, and council development applications; non-residential building approvals by council, dated on the map. Stated values are the costs published for each project, shown as published, and are not HtAG estimates. Completed work dated before 2020 is not shown. Project counts change as registers update — the map is the source of the exact figure on the day. Nothing on this page is financial advice. HtAG RCS™, StreetLens™ and SchoolRank™ are trademarks of HtAG Analytics.