Living Report

NDIS Market Power and Service Coverage

The NDIS is one of the largest social service markets in the country, but most people still cannot see where provider supply is thin, where top providers dominate payments, and where disability-focused social enterprises or community organisations are barely visible in the money flow.

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Active Providers

10,335

31/12/2025

Very Thin Districts

districts with fewer than 50 providers

Thin Districts

districts with fewer than 100 providers

Disability Delivery Graph

200

146 social enterprises + 54 community orgs

Official Register

Who is formally registered

This is the NDIS Commission provider register, not just the aggregate payment-market data.

Approved providers

26,781

currently visible in the official register

Graph matched by ABN

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0 of 0 approved providers already link to CivicGraph entities

Revoked

1,439

Banned

Registered Supply

Where approved providers are concentrated

State	Approved providers
NSW	9,067
VIC	7,808
QLD	4,634
WA	2,182
SA	1,949
ACT	405
NT	393
TAS	338

The register shows formal market presence. The payment-market layer above shows where those markets are still brittle or captured. The gap between the two is where surface-level “provider availability” hides real power concentration.

Power Read

Where service markets are easiest to capture

This view combines thin provider supply with Core support concentration. High squeeze scores mean relatively few providers and a very large payment share captured by the top 10 operators.

District	State	Providers	Top 10 Share	Spend Band	Squeeze
Barkly	NT	29	99%	1m - 5m	341
East Arnhem	NT	31	99%	1m - 5m	319
Darwin Remote	NT	40	91%	1m - 5m	228
Goldfields-Esperance	WA	44	100%	1m - 5m	227
Katherine	NT	48	97%	1m - 5m	202
Far North (SA)	SA	50	97%	1m - 5m	194
Far West	NSW	51	95%	5m - 10m	186
Great Southern	WA	65	97%	5m - 10m	149
Midwest-Gascoyne	WA	71	99%	5m - 10m	139
Eyre and Western	SA	67	90%	10m - 20m	134
Limestone Coast	SA	68	91%	10m - 20m	134
Kimberley-Pilbara	WA	76	99%	1m - 5m	130

What This Means

Barkly, East Arnhem, Katherine, Goldfields-Esperance, and Far West NSW are all markets where supply is thin and the top 10 providers take an outsized share of payments.
This is exactly the kind of hidden power pattern that does not show up in ordinary service directories or philanthropy databases.
For disability, youth justice, and community investment work, the point is not just to find providers. It is to see where markets are brittle, captured, or missing community-owned alternatives.

Queensland Read

Queensland has major metro supply in Brisbane, Ipswich, and Beenleigh, but regional districts like Mackay, Bundaberg, Maryborough, Cairns, and Rockhampton have far thinner provider bases and materially higher Core concentration.

Mackay155 providers

Bundaberg157 providers

Maryborough215 providers

Rockhampton234 providers

Cairns234 providers

Townsville315 providers

Toowoomba399 providers

Maroochydore462 providers

Robina649 providers

Caboolture/Strathpine767 providers

National Supply

Where the providers are

State	Providers
NSW	4,558
VIC	2,945
QLD	2,594
WA	1,279
SA	934
TAS	355
ACT	334
NT	296

Thin Coverage

Where supply drops away first

District	State	Providers
Barkly	NT	29
East Arnhem	NT	31
Darwin Remote	NT	40
Goldfields-Esperance	WA	44
Katherine	NT	48
Far North (SA)	SA	50
Far West	NSW	51
Great Southern	WA	65
Eyre and Western	SA	67
Limestone Coast	SA	68
Midwest-Gascoyne	WA	71
Kimberley-Pilbara	WA	76

Cross-System Next Move

This is not just an NDIS report

The point of adding this layer is to connect disability market power to the rest of CivicGraph: justice funding, philanthropy, community-controlled organisations, social enterprises, and place-based disadvantage. Once those layers are ranked together, users can search for where service markets are thin, who is dominating them, and which community-rooted organisations could be backed instead.

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