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EV charging site selection in Gold Coast
Where should the next charger in Gold Coast go? We score every square kilometre of the Gold Coast area against real traffic counts, ABS census demographics and existing charger coverage — then rank the businesses with car parks that could host one. The numbers below are from our current database, not a brochure.
6
Charging blackspots
Cells with proven demand and no charger within reach, inside 25 km of the CBD
1,000
Candidate host venues
Pubs, shopping centres, supermarkets and servos with mapped customer parking
24
Existing chargers
14 of them DC fast — the competition your site is measured against
92,234
Busiest road (vehicles/day)
Government AADT counts, published by QLD
What the Gold Coast data says
Across the 543 analysis cells within 25 km of central Gold Coast, covering roughly 349,801 residents, 6 score as EV charging blackspots — places where traffic, population, income and nearby venues all point to demand, and yet the nearest charger is far enough away that drivers are underserved.
There are 1,000 candidate host venues in the same area against 24 existing chargers — about 2.4 chargers per 100 venues that could plausibly host one. The gap between those two numbers is the opportunity, and it is not evenly spread: the map shows exactly which end of town it sits in.
How the scoring works
Every Gold Coast location is scored the same way as everywhere else in Australia: Getis-Ord Gi* hotspot statistics on demand, an OLS demand-gap regression, and a machine-learnt suitability model, all computed over open government data. Nothing is hand-tuned per city — which is what makes the comparison between Gold Coast and anywhere else meaningful.
Read the full methodologySee the Gold Coast blackspot map
The interactive analysis is free: search any Gold Coast suburb, see the blackspots painted on the map and the ranked host venues inside them. Reports start at $99.