Partly. Councils that subscribe can publish public profiles showing core insights, which anyone can use. More detailed features need a subscription, and REMPLAN does not publish its prices.

Does Censible do economic impact modelling?

No. Censible reports Census figures, including work, industry and occupation, but does not model the flow-on effects of a project on a regional economy. REMPLAN Economy is built for that.

Does REMPLAN have an API?

Its website describes exports and PDF reports. As at October 2026 we found no public API described there.

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Coming from REMPLAN?

REMPLAN has modelled regional economies since 2006, building on work begun at La Trobe University in Bendigo. Its strengths are economic impact modelling and council profiles. Censible covers narrower ground: the Census for every place in Australia, on the same boundaries, ready to compare, rank and pull into your own tools.

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Strengths

What REMPLAN does well

REMPLAN Economy models 114 industries from the ABS's national input-output tables, with multipliers specific to each region. Its impact modelling estimates the direct and flow-on effects of a project or event on jobs, output, wages and gross regional product, and is used in grant applications, business cases and cost-benefit work. Census data alone cannot produce those figures.

REMPLAN Community covers more than 75 social and demographic indicators back to 1991, with SEIFA scores. REMPLAN Forecast projects population, households and dwellings 20 years ahead, built up from small planning areas with council inputs on land supply and developments. Its housing product adds property sales, rental listings and building approvals, and catchments can be set by travel time by car, bike, walking or public transport. Subscriptions include training and access to REMPLAN's team.

Limitations

What REMPLAN isn't built for

REMPLAN is organised around the councils and regions a subscriber licenses. Councils can publish public profiles, which show core insights, with more detail for subscribers. Comparing places across many councils, or across Australia, depends on what has been licensed.

Prices are not published, apart from a dashboard add-on at $2,500 plus GST a year; subscriptions start with an enquiry. Its website describes exports and PDF reports, but we found no API, so figures reach other tools by export.

How Censible differs

Every place, on the same footing

Censible does not model local economies, forecast from development pipelines or track property sales. It puts every suburb, postcode, council and statistical area in Australia on the ABS's 2026 boundaries, with the 2011, 2016 and 2021 censuses lined up and 618 metrics for each. You can compare places across council lines, rank them, draw a radius, a drive or walk time or a boundary, and upload your own sites to see how the strongest differ from the rest.

The same figures come through a JSON API and a connection for AI assistants. Censible's projections to 2026 and 2031 are simpler than REMPLAN's forecasts: ABS estimates and Geoscience Australia projections, labelled as projections wherever they appear.

Side by side

REMPLAN and Censible at a glance

Topic	REMPLAN	Censible
Built for	Councils, economic development teams, consultants and researchers	Analysts, retailers and developers comparing places
Coverage	The councils and regions a subscriber licenses; public profiles where councils publish them	Every place in Australia
Areas	Councils, localities and SA1 to SA3, plus travel-time catchments	Standard ABS areas down to SA1, plus any radius, drive or walk time, or boundary you draw
Economy	Input-output models of 114 industries, with impact modelling	Census figures on work, industry and occupation only
Forecasts	20-year population, household and dwelling forecasts built with council inputs	Population and age projections to 2031, labelled as projections
Housing	Property sales, rental listings and building approvals	Census rents, mortgage repayments and tenure
Your own sites	Not a stated feature	Upload sites with a performance figure and compare the strongest with the rest
Getting data out	Exports and PDF reports; no API described on its website	CSV files, a JSON API and a connection for AI assistants
Price	Subscriptions by enquiry; public profiles free where councils publish them	From $750 a month, with unlimited seats. Councils and government are quoted. Samples are free.

Which to use

They answer different questions

Use REMPLAN whenYou need economic impact figures for a grant, business case or event, regional industry analysis, or forecasts built from local development data.
Use Censible whenYou're comparing many places across council lines, profiling catchments around sites, comparing your own store network, or want Census figures in your own tools or AI assistant.
Use bothAn economic development team might use REMPLAN for impact modelling and Censible to compare its suburbs with similar places elsewhere in Australia.

Questions people ask

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Checked against these pages on 22 October 2026. Tools change, so if something here is out of date, tell us and we'll fix it.

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