Australia
How resilient is your community?
The Community Resilience Index measures structural capacity and crisis exposure for every Australian postcode. Official data. Peer-reviewed methods. Built for people who want to know what they're actually dealing with.
Two questions, not one number
Most resilience tools produce a single score. The trouble is that a low score on infrastructure and a high score on crisis exposure call for completely different responses. Collapsing them loses the signal.
Layer 1: Baseline Resilience
How strong is your community's foundation?
Social networks, economic diversity, housing, infrastructure, community organisations. The structural capacity that exists before any crisis hits. Measured across six capitals using the BRIC framework — the most replicated method for community resilience measurement globally.
Score range: 0–6
Layer 2: Crisis Pressure
How hard is the current situation hitting your area?
Remoteness, fuel dependency, cost-of-living exposure, transport options, energy independence. The specific pressures your community faces right now. Adapted from the INFORM framework used by the European Commission for humanitarian risk assessment.
Score range: 0–10
Diversity is resilience
A community where 90% of workers are in one industry looks stable — right up until that industry contracts. Then everything fails at once. Standard indices miss this because they measure volume, not diversity.
This index measures both. A community with moderate employment across five sectors is scored as more resilient than one with high employment concentrated in a single sector. The same logic applies to transport options, community organisations, and land use.
We call this the difference between coherence (diverse connections that can reorganise under stress) and entrainment (locked dependencies that fail together).
Your Place
Check your community
Enter your postcode. See your resilience score, crisis exposure, and what's driving each number. Every score decomposes to the indicator level.
Take Action
Organise your community
A practical guide for running community circles, mapping local resources, and building mutual aid networks that outlast any single crisis.
From understanding to action
Knowing your community's resilience score is the starting point. What matters is what you do with it. The strongest communities are the ones where people know each other, trust each other, and can coordinate when it counts.
Schools, community halls, local networks — the infrastructure is already there in most postcodes. The question is whether it's been tested yet.
Community Resilience Guide
Built in the open
Official data
ABS Census, SEIFA, Modified Monash Model, Clean Energy Regulator, state fuel price feeds. Every data source is named. Every indicator is documented.
Peer-reviewed methods
BRIC (Cutter et al. 2010, 30+ replications), INFORM (JRC European Commission), OECD 10-step quality framework. Not invented here — adapted and extended.
Transparent methodology
Full indicator catalogue, weighting rationale, validation results, and sensitivity analysis. See exactly how scores are calculated and where the data has gaps.
Action-oriented
Scores are structural factors, not predictions. Every result connects to something a person or community can do.