Industrial Lands Action Plan
The Department has prepared an Industrial Lands Action Plan outlining an approach to secure, manage and monitor the supply of industrial lands across NSW. For more information, go to Employment lands.
NSW Employment Lands Development Monitor
The Employment Lands Development Monitor is an annual audit undertaken by the Department to monitor employment lands in NSW. It includes data on the zoning, servicing, and development status of employment land in Greater Sydney, Central Coast, Hunter, and Illawarra-Shoalhaven regions and 12 cities in regional NSW. For the rest of NSW, the monitor provides information on the total area zoned employment land. The monitor does not identify or assess whether any employment land is available for development.
Annual monitoring provides data and evidence to inform future planning, servicing, and development decisions. It is a public research tool for NSW Government agencies, councils, businesses, developers, investors, and service providers.
The 2025 monitor reflects recent planning reforms, including the introduction of new employment zones (E1–E5 and supporting zones), which began the transition away from legacy industrial and business zones from April 2023. While the shift is underway, a substantial proportion of employment land remains under legacy rezoning. The 2025 audit also features enhanced data on infrastructure access and expanded precinct coverage across the state.
Key findings for 2025
The 2025 ELDM is a point-in-time snapshot of the status of employment lands in NSW as of January 2025. It monitors total zoned employment land in NSW and the number of hectares undeveloped and serviced by water and waste lead-in connections.
Further information is available by region in the 2025 summary report (PDF, 3.8 MB).
| Region | Zoned lands (total hectares) | Zoned and undeveloped lands (total hectares) | Zoned and undeveloped lands with access to water/sewer (total hectares) | Zoned and undeveloped lands with access to B-Double roads connectioni (total hectares) | Zoned and undeveloped lands serviced with both water/sewer and B-Double roads (total hectares) | Take-up of employment lands in 2024 (total hectares) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Greater Sydney | 20,210 | 7,166 | 631 | 4,227 | 385 | 194 |
| Central Coast | 2,168 | 1,111 | 339 | 517 | 184 | 12 |
| Illawarra-Shoalhaven | 4,462 | 1.362 | 561 | 523 | 291 | 17 |
| Hunter | 8,505 | 4,356 | 1,908 | 2,503 | 1,084 | 34 |
| 4 Region total | 35,345 | 13,995 | 3,439 | 7,770 | 1,944 | 257 |
| 12 Regional Cities | 9,954 | 5,901 | NA | NA | NA | 32 |
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Explore the data
Detailed data are available for download by LGA and precinct, including information on:
- current stock and availability of employment lands
- location of employment lands that are undeveloped and serviced with different infrastructure
- location of recently developed employment lands
- location of potential future employment lands, as identified in strategic plans.
- Central Coast Demand 2025 (XLSX, 40 KB)
- Central Coast Land Supply Monitor 2025 (XLSX, 38 KB)
- Central Coast Supply 2025 (XLSX, 73 KB)
- Greater Sydney Demand 2025 (XLSX, 73 KB)
- Greater Sydney Land Supply Monitor 2025 (XLSX, 78 KB)
- Greater Sydney Supply 2025 (XLSX, 120 KB)
- Hunter Demand 2025 (XLSX, 48 KB)
- Hunter Land Supply Monitor 2025 (XLSX, 50 KB)
- Hunter Supply 2025 (XLSX, 81 KB)
- Illawarra Shoalhaven Demand 2025 (XLSX, 44 KB)
- Illawarra Shoalhaven Land Supply Monitor 2025 (XLSX, 43 KB)
- Illawarra Shoalhaven Supply 2025 (XLSX, 75 KB)
- Regional Cities Demand 2025 (XLSX, 37 KB)
- Regional Cities Land Supply Monitor 2025 (XLSX, 49 KB)
- Regional Cities Supply 2025 (XLSX, 51 KB)
- Regional NSW Overview 2025 (XLSX, 64 KB)
Download the employment land and business park precinct boundaries shapefiles (ZIP, 3 MB) and the employment land and business park final maps (ZIP, 2.5 MB) from the Employment Lands Development Monitor (ELDM) 2025.
- 2024 summary report (PDF, 2.8 MB)
- ELDM 2024 (zipped XLSX, 907 KB)
- 2023 Summary report (PDF, 2.9 MB)
- ELDM 2023 (zipped XLSX, 872 KB)
- ELDM 2022 (zipped XLSX, 702 KB)
- ELDM 2021 (zipped XLSX, 1.4 MB)
- ELDM 2020 (zipped XLSX, 1.4 MB)
- ELDM 2019 (zipped XLSX, 1 MB)
- ELDM 2018 (zipped XLSX, 1.8 MB)
- ELDM 2017 (zipped XLS, 1 MB)
- ELDM 2016 (zipped XLS, 1 MB)
- ELDP 2015 Report (PDF, 11.3 MB)
- ELDP 2014 Update Report (PDF, 12.2 MB)
- ELDP 2013 Update Report (PDF, 4.1 MB)
- ELDP 2012 Update Report (PDF, 3.8 MB)
To access previous ELDM Monitors (2010, 2011), email the Planning Evidence Centre at [email protected]