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SDA Atlas — What is coming
https://sdaatlas.com.au/pipeline/ · Figures as at 30 June 2026
Contains data © National Disability Insurance Scheme Agency 2013, licensed under CC BY 4.0. SDA Atlas is independent of, and not endorsed by, the Agency.

What is coming

6,544 new build dwellings are registered with the NDIA and not yet enrolled. 80% of them are High Physical Support or Robust — the two categories where supply already runs furthest ahead of assessed need.

This is not a construction figure

The NDIA does not publish a construction status for SDA. What it publishes is a count of new build dwellings that providers have registered but which are not yet enrolled — the table calls them unfinished (unenrolled). A dwelling can sit in that count without a brick being laid, and the NDIA gives no guarantee that all of them will ever be enrolled as SDA.

It can be an overcount and an undercount at once. The NDIA says dwellings already enrolled are not always removed promptly, which overstates it; and that properties under construction which are intended for SDA may not appear in it at all, which understates it.

One caveat bears directly on the charts below: a dwelling can be enrolled in a different design category from the one it was registered under. The mix shown here is what providers currently intend, not what will necessarily be built.

Read the NDIA's own note on this data, in full

SDA pipeline data is based on information collected by the NDIA from SDA providers who are building properties they intend to enrol as SDA at a later date. This data is intended for the purpose of SDA market oversight only. There is no guarantee from the NDIA that all the dwellings listed will be enrolled as SDA or that it will be enrolled as the same building type and design category as what is in the SDA pipeline data. The NDIA decides whether to enrol a dwelling when an SDA provider submits a completed application to enrol, after the dwelling is built. The NDIA won't enrol a dwelling if the provider and the dwelling don't meet all of the requirements for enrolment under the SDA Rules at the time of the decision. This is regardless of any previous assessment, feedback or certification provided by the NDIA or any other party. There may also be under-construction properties which are intended to be enrolled as SDA which are not represented in the data. The NDIA works to maintain clean and robust data on pipeline dwellings by continually improving the quality of SDA pipeline data. This includes removing dwellings from pipeline data that are already enrolled and, from 30 March 2026, removing dwellings that have not progressed to enrolment within 36 months. There may be delays in excluding enrolled SDA dwellings from SDA pipeline data. This may result in SDA pipeline numbers being overstated in a given reporting period. Work is underway to improve accuracy of SDA dwellings reporting.

National Disability Insurance Agency, Supplement P, Table P.8. Reproduced unedited.

Dwellings in the pipeline

6,544

Share High Physical Support or Robust

80% est

Pipeline as a share of enrolled stock

46% est

By design category

Supplement P Table P.8

  • High Physical Support 4,060 62%
  • Robust 1,158 18%
  • Improved Liveability 689 11%
  • Multi-Design Category 390 6%
  • Fully Accessible 247 4%

Compare with assessed need: Improved Liveability and Fully Accessible together account for 54% of participants with an SDA need, but only 14% of the pipeline.

By state and territory

Supplement P Table P.8

  • VIC 2,248 34%
  • NSW 1,397 21%
  • QLD 1,030 16%
  • SA 879 13%
  • WA 657 10%
  • TAS 149 2%
  • NT 119 2%
  • ACT 65 1%

Where it is concentrated

SA4 regions by pipeline volume.

  • Melbourne - West VIC · 775 already enrolled 505
  • Melbourne - South East VIC · 585 already enrolled 346
  • Adelaide - North SA · 700 already enrolled 317
  • Adelaide - South SA · 465 already enrolled 202
  • Perth - South East WA · 375 already enrolled 179
  • Sydney - Parramatta NSW · 341 already enrolled 176
  • Melbourne - North East VIC · 409 already enrolled 175
  • Melbourne - Inner VIC · 307 already enrolled 152
  • Geelong VIC · 311 already enrolled 150
  • Sydney - Blacktown NSW · 210 already enrolled 145
  • Melbourne - Inner South VIC · 239 already enrolled 144
  • Perth - South West WA · 279 already enrolled 139
  • Adelaide - West SA · 271 already enrolled 124
  • Sydney - South West NSW · 208 already enrolled 122
  • Sydney - Outer West and Blue Mountains NSW · 323 already enrolled 110
  • Ballarat VIC · 284 already enrolled 107
  • Melbourne - Outer East VIC · 211 already enrolled 107
  • Perth - North West WA · 202 already enrolled 107
  • Gold Coast QLD · 297 already enrolled 101
  • Darwin NT · 121 already enrolled 100

Biggest proportional increases

Pipeline as a share of dwellings already enrolled. These are the regions where the stock would change most if everything registered were built and enrolled. Regions with at least 100 enrolled dwellings.

  • Darwin NT · 100 in pipeline vs 121 enrolled 82.6%
  • Illawarra NSW · 82 in pipeline vs 118 enrolled 69.5%
  • Sydney - Blacktown NSW · 145 in pipeline vs 210 enrolled 69.0%
  • Melbourne - West VIC · 505 in pipeline vs 775 enrolled 65.2%
  • Brisbane - North QLD · 74 in pipeline vs 115 enrolled 64.3%
  • Melbourne - Inner South VIC · 144 in pipeline vs 239 enrolled 60.3%
  • Melbourne - South East VIC · 346 in pipeline vs 585 enrolled 59.1%
  • Sydney - South West NSW · 122 in pipeline vs 208 enrolled 58.7%
  • Melbourne - Inner East VIC · 85 in pipeline vs 149 enrolled 57.0%
  • Sydney - Outer South West NSW · 71 in pipeline vs 125 enrolled 56.8%
  • South Australia - South East SA · 89 in pipeline vs 157 enrolled 56.7%
  • Mornington Peninsula VIC · 95 in pipeline vs 170 enrolled 55.9%