Market map · Australia

Public, community & associations in Australia_

As of 4 November 2026, 34,450 public, community & associations companies are based in Australia: 1,900 with 51+ employees, 297 hiring right now, led by nonprofit civic associations and Melbourne.

As of 4 November 2026 · refreshed daily · counts move as websites, DNS and career sites are re-read.

Companies, confident classification
34,450
51+ employees
1,900 · 6%
Hiring now
297 · 138 new in 30 d
Largest segment
Nonprofit civic associations · 11,370
Top city
Melbourne · 658
Running cold outbound
5
34,450public, community & associations companies in Australia
1,900with 51+ employees
297hiring on their own career site today
138opened a role in the last 30 days
02 — Segments

Public, community & associations in Australia, by segment

Click a segment for its own map. Second column: companies hiring right now.

By sub-vertical
companies · hiring
Nonprofit civic associations
11,370 · 59
Amateur sports clubs
8,417 · 23
Charitable foundations
8,170 · 93
Membership associations & unions
4,946 · 62
Churches congregations
4,904 · 26
Research institutes & think tanks
1,622 · 14
Public programmes & agencies
1,406 · 77
Municipal government
421 · 13
Justice & public safety
103 · 1
By company size
companies · hiring
Self-employed
16,547 · 4
2-10 employees
11,860 · 51
11-50 employees
4,143 · 56
51-200 employees
1,245 · 97
201-500 employees
347 · 47
501-1000 employees
146 · 18
1001-5000 employees
117 · 19
5001-10000 employees
22 · 2
10,001+ employees
23 · 3
By city
companiesshare
Melbourne
6582%
Haymarket
3881%
Adelaide Bc
2731%
Perth
2441%
Sydney
1791%
Canberra
1600%
Adelaide
1430%
Petrie Terrace
1160%
Brisbane
1090%
West Perth
960%
Carlton
890%
Geelong
890%
03 — Largest companies

The biggest public, community & associations companies in Australia

The largest companies of the market, by headcount; job boards and portals left out.

Department of HealthGovernment agencies & ministries · General Pico10,001+ employeesGovernment of Western Australia Department of EducationGovernment agencies & ministries · Tuart Hill10,001+ employeesBrisbane City CouncilMunicipal authorities & general public bodies · Brisbane5001-10000 employeesCSIROMultidisciplinary research institutes5001-10000 employeesDepartment of Natural Resources and Environment TasmaniaGovernment agencies & ministries · Hobart1001-5000 employeesDepartment of Energy, Environment and Climate ActionGovernment agencies & ministries · Melbourne1001-5000 employeesWEHI (Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research)Biomedical research groups · Parkville1001-5000 employeesMoonee Valley City CouncilMunicipal authorities & general public bodies · Moonee Ponds1001-5000 employeesMercy EducationSchool support associations · East Melbourne1001-5000 employeesDepartment of Human ServicesGovernment agencies & ministries · Adelaide Bc1001-5000 employeesAustralian Water AssociationIndustry & employer associations · Chatswood1001-5000 employeesANSTOGovernment agencies & ministries · Lucas Heights1001-5000 employeesYMCA QueenslandYouth welfare organisations · Fortitude Valley1001-5000 employeesThe Salvation ArmyLocal social welfare foundations · Nunawading1001-5000 employeesMaster PlumbersIndustry & employer associations · Brunswick1001-5000 employeesHunter New England and Central Coast Primary Health Network (HNECC PHN)Other public programmes & agencies · Erina1001-5000 employeesGarvan Institute of Medical ResearchBiomedical research groups · Darlinghurst501-1000 employeesCity of SwanMunicipal authorities & general public bodies · Midland501-1000 employees
City of RydeMunicipal authorities & general public bodies · Denistone East501-1000 employees
City of AdelaideMunicipal authorities & general public bodies · Adelaide501-1000 employees
34,450 public, community & associations companies in Australia; 297 of them hiring.

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04 — What they run

The stack of public, community & associations in Australia

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34,450 public, community & associations companies are based in Australia: 1,900 with 51 or more employees, 297 hiring right now (138 opened a role in the last 30 days), led by nonprofit civic associations and Melbourne. (Breaknorm, 4 November 2026, https://breaknorm.co/market/community_associations_public/australia)
How we know

Read from the source, not self-reported

Every number on this page can be traced to a page we crawled or a posting we read. Full methodology →

  • ClassificationEvery company is classified from its own website into vertical, sub-vertical and leaf with a confidence score; this page counts industry confidence ≥ 0.7 and country confidence ≥ 0.8.
  • Company listRich profiles with a LinkedIn-known headcount only; job boards, directories, portals and non-organisations are left out.
  • HiringOpen roles read hourly from the company's own career system.
  • StackScripts and embeds on the company's pages plus SPF, DKIM, MX and CNAME records of its domain.
FAQ

Public, community & associations in Australia: questions

How many public, community & associations companies are there in Australia?

34,450 with a confident industry and country classification, read from their own websites; 1,900 of them have 51 or more employees.

How do you know a company belongs to public, community & associations?

We classify every company from its own website into a vertical, a sub-vertical and a leaf, each with a confidence score. This page counts companies with industry confidence of at least 0.7 and country confidence of at least 0.8; the company list shows only rich profiles with a LinkedIn-known headcount.

Which public, community & associations companies in Australia are hiring?

297 have an open role on their own career site today and 138 opened one in the last 30 days. The full list with the hiring manager is in the product; counting is free.

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