This guide includes the top twenty data sources that describe community wellbeing in Victoria. They cover a broad range of topics from population, workforce, social and multicultural features, services and facilities, children and families, health, disadvantage, participation, amenity, economy, industry and transport.

This report provides evidence for DPCD's community development work and Indicators of Community Strength. It shows that building community participation and collaborative governance have significant outcomes. These include better physical and mental health, positive parenting, improved child development, success at school, better employment outcomes and positive ageing.

This is an overview of five reports describing disadvantage in Victoria’s regions of Barwon South West, Grampians, Loddon Mallee, Hume and Gippsland. It compiles data from across the reports to describe disadvantage across regional Victoria as a whole.

This selection of data sources helps describe community wellbeing in Victoria. They cover a broad range of topics from population, social and multicultural features, services and facilities, children and families, health, disadvantage, participation, amenity, economy, industry and transport.

This report by Jeanette Pope provides a theoretical framework for the indicators chosen as a guide for the department - why they were chosen and what they represent. It also reviews the international evidence about the outcomes of networks and participation for communities and summarises what we know from the Victorian findings to date.