The Department has prepared an Industrial Lands Action Plan outlining an approach to secure, manage and monitor the supply of industrial lands across NSW. For more information go to Employment lands.
NSW Employment Lands Development Monitor
The Employment Lands Development Monitor (ELDM) is an annual audit undertaken by the Department to monitor the development and availability of employment lands in NSW. It includes data on the zoning, servicing and development status of employment land in Greater Sydney, Central Coast, Hunter and Illawarra-Shoalhaven regions and 12 cities in regional NSW. For the rest of NSW, the ELDM provides information on the total area zoned employment land only.
Annual monitoring provides data and evidence to inform future planning, servicing and development decisions. It is a public research tool for NSW Government agencies, councils, businesses, developers, investors, and service providers.
Key findings for 2024
The 2024 ELDM is a point-in-time snapshot of the status of employment lands in NSW as at January 2024. It monitors total zoned employment land in NSW and the number of hectares undeveloped and serviced by water and waste lead-in connections.
Further information is available by region in the 2024 summary report (PDF, 2.8 MB).
| Region | Zoned lands (total hectares) | Zoned and undeveloped lands (total hectares) | Zoned and undeveloped lands (serviced hectares) | Take-up of employment lands in 2023 (hectares) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Greater Sydney | 20,184 | 7,321 | 615 | 228 |
| Central Coast | 2,170 | 1,128 | 355 | 7 |
| Illawarra-Shoalhaven | 4,450 | 1,353 | 555 | 7 |
| Hunter | 8,484 | 4,302 | 1,507 | 44 |
| 4 Region total | 35,288 | 14,104 | 3,032 | 286 |
| 12 Regional Cities | 9,988 | 8,937 | NA | 62 |
*Includes Greater Sydney, Central Coast, Illawarra-Shoalhaven, and Hunter
Explore the data
Detailed data are available for download by LGA and precinct, including information on:
- current stock and availability of employment lands
- location of serviced employment lands that are undeveloped
- location of recently developed employment lands
- location of potential future employment lands, as identified in strategic plans.
- Central Coast Demand 2024 (XLSX, 47 KB)
- Central Coast Land Supply Monitor 2024 (XLSX, 46 KB)
- Central Coast Supply 2024 (XLSX, 76 KB)
- Greater Sydney Demand 2024 (XLSX, 82 KB)
- Greater Sydney Land Supply Monitor 2024 (XLSX, 91 KB)
- Greater Sydney Supply 2024 (XLSX, 127 KB)
- Hunter Demand 2024 (XLSX, 55 KB)
- Hunter Land Supply Monitor 2024 (XLSX, 56 KB)
- Hunter Supply 2024 (XLSX, 81 KB)
- Illawarra-Shoalhaven Demand 2024 (XLSX, 51 KB)
- Illawarra-Shoalhaven Land Supply Monitor 2024 (XLSX, 50 KB)
- Illawarra-Shoalhaven Supply 2024 (XLSX, 77 KB)
- Regional Cities Demand 2024 (XLSX, 44 KB)
- Regional Cities Land Supply Monitor 2024 (XLSX, 54 KB)
- Regional Cities Supply 2024 (XLSX, 56 KB)
- Regional NSW Overview 2024 (XLSX, 70 KB)
Download the employment land and business park precinct boundaries shapefiles (ZIP, 3 MB) from the Employment Lands Development Monitor (ELDM) 2024.
- ELDM 2023 Summary report (PDF, 2.9 MB)
- ELDM 2023 (zipped XLSX, 872 KB)
- ELDM 2022 (zipped XLSX, 702 KB)
- ELDM 2021 (zipped XLSX, 1.4 MB)
- ELDM 2020 (zipped XLSX, 1.4 MB)
- ELDM 2019 (zipped XLSX, 1 MB)
- ELDM 2018 (zipped XLSX, 1.8 MB)
- ELDM 2017 (zipped XLS, 1 MB)
- ELDM 2016 (zipped XLS, 1 MB)
- ELDP 2015 Report (PDF, 11.3 MB)
- ELDP 2014 Update Report (PDF, 12.2 MB)
- ELDP 2013 Update Report (PDF, 4.1 MB)
- ELDP 2012 Update Report (PDF, 3.8 MB)
To access previous ELDM Monitors (2010, 2011), please contact the Economics and Land Use Forecasting Team at [email protected]