Service areas

Learn more about selecting service areas when completing grant applications.

About service areas

In a grant agreement the ‘service area’ sets out where an organisation will draw most of its clients from and the communities it will work with.

In all grant agreements with our department, the Statistical Areas levels in the Australian Bureau of Statistics’ (ABS) Australian Statistical Geography Standard (ASGS) 2011 will be used to define service areas.

Selecting a service area

When completing grants applications, you will need to select the combination of Statistical Areas which best reflects the area you intend to service. The ABS Census mapping tool(Opens in a new tab/window) provides information about Statistical Areas and allows you to compare against other boundaries such as postcode. The Statistical Area levels are a hierarchy of regions that cover the whole of Australia.

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