Community Wellbeing

Understanding and measuring community indicators enables governments to make evidence-based decisions to help improve the wellbeing of communities.

Wellbeing indicators are not a measure of performance on any single level of government or organisation but rather are a way to collectively address challenges and build on strengths for the betterment of the community. 

In 2023 the Federal Government released the Measuring What Matters Framework and in June 2025 the NSW Government released the NSW Performance and Wellbeing Framework.  Both of these frameworks measure community wellbeing through the use of population indicators.

Camden Council has followed a similar methodology, bringing data from multiple sources to capture community wellbeing across approximately 50 population indicators. These indicators form five themes of wellbeing: Health, Safety & Security, Community Cohesion, Resilience and Learning, Skills & Education. 

Council has developed a Camden Social Wellbeing Report and Snapshot to transparently measure and report community wellbeing. The intention in doing so, is to increase collaboration and data-based decision making for the Camden community by all levels of government. 

The next steps of this project will be to develop a community wellbeing dashboard to increase access to this information.  This will be coming in 2026 and will be linked to this webpage. 

If you would like more information about this, where the data has come from or how to use this, please reach out to Council's Senior Social and Community Planner by emailing Camden Council.