24420 – APN Enabling Infrastructure Index™

This node reads growth in public-sector delivery of the enabling infrastructure — roads, water, sewerage and electricity connections — that new housing developments depend on to proceed. It is a component of the APN Future Development Pipeline Index™ (24400).

Primary metric: Public-Sector Enabling Infrastructure Work Done, Year-on-Year Change, Z-Score

The four infrastructure types are combined before the growth rate is taken, then standardised against this node’s own history. The figures are nominal (not adjusted for construction price inflation), so part of any reading reflects price growth in the sector as well as the physical volume of work done.

Position: 43.9, ranked against 156 quarters of this node’s own history.

Australian Bureau of Statistics, Construction Work Done, public-sector engineering construction, roads, water, sewerage and electricity generation/transmission/distribution, original terms, current prices.

At −0.1209σ, growth in enabling infrastructure delivery is running slightly below its long-run norm, in the lower-middle of its 156-quarter history. Delivery grew 4.26% year on year. Electricity work remains the drag: it makes up 20.1% of the four infrastructure types at the current quarter, close to its typical 21.1% share, but it fell 5.8% over the past year while roads, water and sewerage combined grew 7.1%. Excluding electricity, this node would read at its norm, +0.03σ rather than −0.12σ.

Node 24420 holds Active status. The certified Z-score is −0.1209σ (Q2 2026, N=156). As noted in Section 1, its scope and data sourcing remain under review and may change in a future update, which would not affect the certification of the current reading.

The other components of the APN Future Development Pipeline Index™ (24400).