Data Sources

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The 2021 Census of Population and Housing provides comprehensive demographic, social and economic data for every suburb in Australia. This is the primary census dataset used on SuburbScan. We read it at two geographies: Suburb and Locality (SAL) for suburb pages, and Statistical Area Level 1 — the smallest area the ABS publishes, roughly 200-800 people — for the pocket around an individual address on property pages.

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The 2016 Census provides historical demographic data, allowing SuburbScan to show trends and changes over time when compared with the 2021 Census.

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SEIFA combines census variables (income, education, employment, occupation, housing) into composite indexes ranking areas by relative socio-economic advantage and disadvantage. SuburbScan uses three of the four at SAL level: IRSAD (advantage and disadvantage together), which drives the Liveability Rating, plus IER (income against housing cost and household size) and IEO (qualifications and job type). The three separate suburbs one index cannot — Darlinghurst is IRSAD 10, IEO 10 and IER 1. The same release also shows how many of each suburb's SA1s fall in each national decile, which is how evenly that single score is spread across the suburb.

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ABS publishes the canonical Local Government Area (LGA) boundary file as part of the ASGS Edition 3. SuburbScan uses these polygons to spatially join every suburb centroid to its containing council, which underpins the Council Rates card and any future LGA-level surfaces.

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ACARA maintains the national school directory with details on every registered school in Australia, including location, sector (government, catholic, independent), and school type (primary, secondary, combined). ACARA also publishes each school's ICSEA (Index of Community Socio-Educational Advantage) and NAPLAN results by year level and domain, which SuburbScan uses to compute a peer-relative quality band per school. The suburb and property pages show the school's ICSEA value and percentile alongside that band.

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The ABS estimate of how many people live in each Significant Urban Area at 30 June each year, published every March. SuburbScan uses it for regional city growth because it is current to last June, where the Census stops at 2021.

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Official government-school catchment polygons. SuburbScan tests a property's coordinates against these boundaries to show which government primary and secondary schools an address is zoned for, joined to the ACARA school record for enrolments and sector. Covers NSW, VIC, QLD, WA, SA, ACT and TAS. WA's areas are read from the maps on each school's Schools Online page; they are the Department of Education's guide to the written definitions in the Government Gazette, which decide which side of a boundary road is included. The NT publishes no catchments, so NT addresses show no zoning. Catchments can change between school years, so confirm with the school or department before relying on them.

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The areas of Victoria's Registered Aboriginal Parties, appointed by the Victorian Aboriginal Heritage Council. A suburb page names the party whose area covers the suburb.

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The areas of NSW's Local Aboriginal Land Councils under the Aboriginal Land Rights Act 1983. A suburb page names the land council whose area covers the suburb.

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Queensland's Aboriginal cultural heritage parties, which follow native title. A suburb page names the party for the area and whether native title is determined or claimed.

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Australia's authoritative address database. G-NAF contains the geographic coordinates of every physical address in Australia and is used by SuburbScan for address lookups, geocoding, and suburb boundary data.

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The boundary of every land parcel in six states and territories, about 11 million lots. SuburbScan calculates each lot's area from its boundary, because most older lots do not record one, and compares a house block with the typical house block in its suburb. Western Australia's cadastre is not openly licensed and the Northern Territory is not included.

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Every rental bond records the weekly rent a tenant agreed to. SuburbScan shows the median for new leases, for 3-bedroom houses and 2-bedroom units, beside the asking rents from listings. Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania and Western Australia publish by suburb; New South Wales by postcode. Western Australia does not record bedrooms or dwelling type, so its figure covers all rentals. Figures from fewer than 10 bonds are not shown.

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An index of how affordable the median rent in each postcode is for the average rental household of the region, the capital city or the rest of the state. A score of 100 means rent takes 30% of income. Published quarterly by postcode for every state except the Northern Territory, from rental bond data.

Settled sale records collected from public property listings, aggregated into a per-suburb median over a trailing 24 months. This is NOT government data, and it is labelled 'Public listings data' on the card so it is never mistaken for a Valuer-General figure. It is the primary sold-price source across all eight states, because a single national source lets two suburbs be compared like with like — the state Valuer-General datasets below cover only NSW, VIC and SA, and still render wherever this source has no median. Checked against the Valuer-General figures on the 3,073 suburbs carrying both: the medians differ by 0.0% at the median, with no systematic bias in either direction. Licensed commercial feeds are excluded.

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Per-suburb median house sale price + sales count, published quarterly. Each row reflects sales recorded in the calendar quarter; medians based on fewer than 10 sales are flagged as preliminary on the suburb page. Used where the national listings source above has no median for a VIC suburb — it carries a 10-year history and quarter-on-quarter change the national source cannot, so it is not discarded, only out-ranked.

Bulk weekly property sales files covering every recorded NSW sale. SuburbScan aggregates the raw transactions into annual per-suburb medians for house, unit and land, then derives year-on-year change, a five-year trend and a ten-year decade series with compound annual growth. Unlike the advertised listings source, these are settled sale prices.

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Quarterly median house sale prices for Adelaide metropolitan suburbs. House sales only — SA does not publish unit or land medians in this series — and metropolitan only, so regional SA suburbs carry no median.

Each state and territory administers its own First Home Owner Grant scheme (the ACT replaced its FHOG in 2019 with the Home Buyer Concession Scheme stamp-duty reduction). SuburbScan surfaces the current financial year's grant amount, purchase-price cap, and eligibility on every suburb page. The relevant state authority's verification link is rendered directly on each suburb page; always confirm with that authority before signing a contract — amounts and caps change at state-budget time (May–June).

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First Home Owner Grants paid each month since July 2000, by postcode, for new and established homes. Victorian suburb pages show their postcode's grants per financial year. © State of Victoria (State Revenue Office).

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Every credit representative in Australia with their registered suburb and postcode, published monthly. We count the people working under the national mortgage broker aggregators listed by the MFAA, leaving out head-office clusters. Counts only; no names are shown.

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The ABS Building Approvals release reports the number and value of dwelling units approved for construction each month, by Local Government Area. SuburbScan aggregates the LGA data cubes into a trailing-12-month count plus a same-period year-on-year change — a leading indicator of the housing-supply pipeline in each suburb's council area.

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Inside Airbnb publishes quarterly snapshots of Airbnb listings for Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Tasmania, Western Australia and several regional areas. SuburbScan counts the active listings in each suburb (those reviewed in the past 12 months), splits whole homes from rooms, and shows whole homes as a share of the suburb's private dwellings at the 2021 Census. Airbnb only; other platforms are not included. Suburbs outside the covered areas show nothing.

SuburbScan aggregates publicly advertised for-sale and rental listings over a rolling six-month window into per-suburb medians for house and unit asking prices, advertised rents, listing counts, and days on market. These figures drive the Currently for Sale and Rental Market cards and the gross rental yield. Advertised asking prices sit above eventual settled-sale prices, so yields derived from them read slightly conservative. Medians based on fewer than three listings are suppressed.

Public transport stop locations and route data sourced from state transport authorities via GTFS feeds. SuburbScan uses this data to calculate a Transport Access Score for each property address.

The AAA publishes an annual EV Index summarising light-vehicle registrations by fuel type (battery-electric, hybrid + plug-in hybrid, and internal-combustion) at postcode level, sourced from state road authorities (Service NSW, VicRoads, TMR Queensland, and equivalents). The 2025 release covers 2021-2025 snapshots as at 31 January each year, giving SuburbScan a 5-year trajectory for every AAA-covered postcode. This is the only ongoing postcode-level source since the ABS Motor Vehicle Census was discontinued after its January 2021 release.

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The Clean Energy Regulator publishes monthly counts of small-scale solar installations and their rated capacity for every Australian postcode, running from 2001 to the present. These are records of certificates created under the Small-scale Renewable Energy Scheme rather than a census of rooftops, which means a system replaced or upgraded on a roof that already had panels is counted again, and small commercial systems up to 100 kW are counted alongside houses. The rate SuburbScan publishes is therefore a sound comparison between postcodes and not an estimate of how many homes have working panels today. Figures are postcode-level, so every suburb sharing a postcode carries the same numbers. Based on Clean Energy Regulator material licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence.

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The Rinseout NBN Map is a non-commercial enthusiast project that aggregates NBN Co's public rollout data into ~12.6 million address-level premises, each tagged with its access technology (fibre to the premises, curb, building or node; hybrid fibre-coaxial cable; fixed wireless; or satellite). SuburbScan spatial-joins every premises to its ABS suburb boundary and stores only a per-suburb rollup: the premises count, the dominant technology, the full-fibre share, the technology mix, and a 0-100 connectivity score that weights each technology by real-world capability. Refreshed weekly upstream.

OpenChargeMap is the global open registry of electric vehicle charging stations. SuburbScan indexes Australian charging points to surface the nearest stations to any property address, including connector type, fast-charge availability, and operator network.

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Every police-reported injury crash in Victoria, with its location, severity and road, published monthly with a seven-month lag. SuburbScan counts crashes where someone was killed or admitted to hospital over the last five full years, inside each suburb's boundary, and names the roads they happened on.

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Location and characteristics of every reported casualty crash in Queensland since 2001, updated about yearly. SuburbScan counts fatal and hospitalisation crashes over the last five full years inside each suburb's boundary, and names the roads they happened on.

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Reported road crashes and casualties in South Australia, published as a rolling five-year extract each September. SuburbScan counts fatal crashes and crashes where someone was admitted to hospital overnight, inside each suburb's boundary. The open extract does not name the road, so SA suburbs show totals only.

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Police-reported road crashes in New South Wales, linked to hospital records and published as a rolling five-year extract. SuburbScan counts fatal crashes and crashes where someone was admitted to hospital, inside each suburb's boundary, and names the roads they happened on.

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Every police-reported crash on Tasmanian roads since 2009, from the State Growth crash database via theLIST. SuburbScan counts fatal crashes and crashes with a serious injury over the last five full years, inside each suburb's boundary, and names the roads they happened on. © State of Tasmania.

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Road classifications from OpenStreetMap. SuburbScan measures the straight-line distance from an address to the nearest point of every motorway, highway and arterial road within 500 m, against the road geometry rather than to a nearby point on it. Local and residential streets are deliberately excluded — a collector road is not an arterial, and including them would dilute the answer. This is a distance to a mapped road, not a measure of traffic volume or noise: no open Australian dataset publishes either at address level, so neither is shown.

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Cycling infrastructure from OpenStreetMap, measured as the straight-line distance from an address to the nearest point of the path geometry rather than to a nearby point on it. Separated paths and painted lanes are reported separately and never added together: a protected trail beside a river and a stripe on a 60 km/h arterial serve different riders, and a combined figure would describe neither. This is a distance to mapped infrastructure, not a rating of how pleasant or safe a route is, and not a 'bike score' — scoring ridability would need terrain data we do not hold. Coverage is uneven: within 10 km of the CBD, fewer than 3% of suburbs in six of the eight capitals have no separated path within 2 km, but coverage thins with distance from the centre, so an outer-suburban address showing nothing nearby may mean no path or may mean no mapping. Shared footpaths marked for bicycle use are excluded: that layer disagreed with known ground truth in Canberra. © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.

SuburbScan uses the Mapbox Directions API to calculate the driving distance and travel time from each suburb centroid to its state capital CBD. Values are computed once per suburb, cached in the database, and refreshed only when suburb data changes — the user-facing site never calls Mapbox at request time.

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Flood planning overlay polygons sourced from state planning schemes. SuburbScan checks whether a suburb or property address falls within a mapped flood zone using geo_shape intersection queries. Statewide coverage is VIC, WA, SA and the ACT; in QLD, Brisbane and Gold Coast councils' own maps plus the state's modelled towns; in TAS, Hobart plus the state flood map. We hold none for NSW or NT — pages there say so rather than showing a clean result.

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Digital Earth Australia Coastlines is a national dataset with approximately 2.16 million points every 30 metres along Australia's coastline, measuring annual shoreline change rates (m/yr) from satellite imagery spanning 1988 to 2024.

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Geoscience Australia's national map of power lines, substations and major power stations (2026 edition). The power line layer holds every known line of 66 kV and above; smaller distribution lines are not included.

ANEF contour data maps aircraft noise exposure zones around Australian airports. Sourced from Defence Airfields (data.gov.au), Brisbane Council, NSW Planning, VicPlan, QLD TMR, Rockhampton Regional Council, Tweed Shire Council (Gold Coast Airport), the WA state planning policies for Perth and Jandakot airports, the SA Planning and Design Code and the Tasmanian Planning Scheme (theLIST). The contours represent cumulative noise levels and are used by planning authorities to guide residential development near airports. The mapped set is Defence-airfield-weighted and covers 34 airports: Sydney and Canberra airports are not among them, and the ACT has no contours at all. Hobart, Launceston, Devonport and King Island are the planning scheme's ANEF 20 area only, without the inner contours.

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Mapped extents of where floodwater was actually recorded in past events: the January 1974, January 2011 and February 2022 Brisbane River floods. SuburbScan tests a property address for containment within each extent. This is observed inundation, not modelled risk — it does not account for mitigation built since an event, and an address outside every extent is not thereby safe. Brisbane City Council is the only Australian council we have found publishing per-event extents as open data, so property pages outside that council say the data is unavailable rather than showing a clean result. The 1974 mapping is flagged as superseded by the council and is labelled as such.

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Historical bushfire boundary polygons sourced from state fire agencies, providing fire perimeters, ignition dates, fire type, ignition cause, and area burned (hectares). Covers NSW, VIC, QLD, WA, SA, TAS and the ACT; the Northern Territory publishes no boundaries we ingest.

BOM publishes daily observations going back over 100 years for ~540 active weather stations Australia-wide. SuburbScan downloads daily rainfall, max temperature and min temperature for every curated station, computes 30-year-style normals over the most recent 20-year window, and matches each suburb to its nearest active station within 50 km. Recent years are weighted because Australian climate has shifted measurably since the 2000s.

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DCCEEW's National Pollutant Inventory is an annual database of facilities reporting air, water, and land emissions of 93 listed pollutants. SuburbScan ingests the latest reporting year (~4,500 facilities for 2024/25) via data.gov.au and surfaces facilities within 5 km of each suburb's centroid as an informational signal of nearby industrial activity. Reporting facilities exceed substance-specific thresholds — being on the list does not imply unsafe levels at any particular address.

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The NSW Government operates around 50 reference-grade air monitoring stations across Sydney metro, Newcastle, the Illawarra, the Central Coast, and major regional centres. Annual averages and NEPM-threshold exceedance counts per pollutant are published within weeks of each calendar year ending.

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EPA Victoria operates the AirWatch network across Melbourne metro, Geelong, and the Latrobe Valley. Annual hourly archives go back to 1979; the most recent complete year drives the annual mean and NEPM-threshold exceedance counts on the suburb page.

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Queensland publishes hourly readings for each monitoring site. Around 43 active sites cover Brisbane, the Gold Coast, Sunshine Coast, Townsville, Cairns, Rockhampton, and Mount Isa (where SO₂ from the lead-zinc smelter is a known signal).

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SA EPA publishes particle (PM10, PM2.5) and gaseous (NO₂, O₃, SO₂, CO) readings for each monitoring station at hourly resolution. Around 9 active sites cover Adelaide metro, Port Pirie (lead smelter SO₂), and Whyalla (port and iron-ore dust).

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ACT Health runs three monitoring stations, at Civic, Florey and Monash, and publishes their hourly readings. The ACT publishes them unverified: they may not yet have been through quality checks, and the suburb page says so. The ACT does not monitor sulphur dioxide, and Civic has not reported NO₂ or CO since 2015.

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Ground elevation across Australia, derived from the SRTM radar survey with vegetation removed. SuburbScan reads the height above sea level at the centre of each suburb. Vegetation is removed but buildings are not, so a dense urban centre reads above true ground level — the figure is shown rounded and described as approximate for that reason. It is a measure of height above sea level and is not an indicator of flood risk: that depends on height above nearby waterways, which is a different measurement SuburbScan does not publish.

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Sites a regulator has recorded on a public register: EPA Victoria's Priority Sites Register and groundwater restricted use zones, NT EPA environmental audits and pollution abatement notices, and the ACT register of contaminated sites. Shown on property pages within 500 m. Land not on these registers does not confirm it is free from contamination.

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Victoria's Crime Statistics Agency publishes recorded criminal incidents by suburb, including offence categories such as assault, theft, property damage, and drug offences.

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BOCSAR provides detailed crime data for New South Wales, including recorded incidents by offence type and location.

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SA Police publishes crime statistics by suburb, covering offence categories relevant to community safety.

QPS publishes recorded offence counts by suburb and calendar year, broken down by offence category.

WA Police publishes crime statistics by suburb, covering offence categories by calendar year.

ACT Policing publishes quarterly crime statistics by suburb, aggregated to yearly totals on SuburbScan.

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Offences recorded by NT Police, published monthly by reporting area: Darwin, Palmerston, Alice Springs, Katherine, Tennant Creek, Nhulunbuy and, outside those towns, each ABS statistical area. There are no suburb figures, so a Territory suburb page shows its area's.

Offences recorded by Tasmania Police, published monthly by council area. There are no suburb figures, so a Tasmanian suburb page shows its council's.

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Every place on the South Australian Heritage Register and the local heritage lists, as polygons: State, Local and Contributory places. SuburbScan checks whether a property address sits inside one. A listing is a planning control on the place, not a statement about its condition.

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Twenty declared State Heritage Areas — whole precincts such as Burra, Moonta Mines and Colonel Light Gardens, rather than individual buildings. An address can sit inside an area and inside a listed place at the same time; both are shown.

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Heritage polygons covering every council's local Heritage Overlay (Vic) and the state and local heritage layer (NSW), the ACT Heritage Register, and South Australia's listed Heritage Places and State Heritage Areas. SuburbScan checks whether a property address sits inside any of them. Note the Victorian and NSW layers are planning-scheme CONTROLS on a property, while the ACT and SA sources are registers of places — they overlap but are not the same claim. South Australia's two layers also overlap each other by design: the State Heritage Areas are whole precincts such as Burra and Colonel Light Gardens, so an address can sit in an area and in a listed place at once. The ACT register's Aboriginal places and objects are deliberately excluded: their locations are routinely confidential to Traditional Custodians, and a licence to reuse data is not a judgement that publishing it is appropriate. South Australia's register carries no Aboriginal category to exclude — that state's Aboriginal heritage sits in a confidential archive under the Aboriginal Heritage Act 1988 and is not published as open data. Queensland's register is a third case again: its publisher states that it lists places of non-Indigenous heritage significance, and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultural heritage is held under separate legislation and a separate register that SuburbScan does not use. Tasmania is the same case as Queensland: the Tasmanian Heritage Register lists historic places, and Aboriginal heritage is protected under its own Act and register. Tasmania's local listings come from the planning scheme and are identified by their schedule reference rather than a name.

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Seven Victorian planning-scheme overlays: Bushfire Management, Environmental Audit, Erosion Management, Salinity Management, Environmental Significance, Vegetation Protection and Public Acquisition. SuburbScan checks whether a property address sits inside any of them. An overlay is a CONTROL a planning scheme applies to land, never a forecast — a Bushfire Management Overlay sets construction standards and does not say a fire is expected, an Environmental Audit Overlay requires an audit before sensitive use and does not say the land is contaminated, and a Public Acquisition Overlay reserves land for a public authority without meaning the property will be acquired. Victoria publishes around 27 overlay instruments; heritage and flood overlays are shown in their own sections here, and built-form controls such as design and development are not included.

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The Tasmanian Government's 2016 coastal hazard planning maps: inundation bands for land the sea may reach as it rises, and erosion bands for shoreline that could recede. SuburbScan checks whether a property address sits in a band and shows what that band means. The maps were made to inform planning decisions; they are a designation of the land, not a forecast for one property, and they do not assess river flooding combined with a storm surge.

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South Australia's Planning and Design Code flood and bushfire hazard overlays. SuburbScan checks whether a property address sits in a flood overlay — intolerable risk, a tolerable risk found by a flood study, coastal flooding, or land with no flood study yet — and in which bushfire hazard band, and uses the flood overlays in the suburb flood score. An overlay is a planning control, not a forecast that a property will flood or burn.

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The planning zone applying to every parcel of land in Victoria. A zone sets what land may be used for and what needs a planning permit, so SuburbScan reports the zone a property address sits in — General Residential, Farming, Commercial 1 and so on — together with its schedule number, which is what decides the detail. Victoria sets height and density limits in the written schedule to each zone rather than in a mapped layer, so those limits are not shown for Victorian addresses.

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Four Environmental Planning Instrument layers covering every parcel in New South Wales: the land zone, the maximum building height, the floor space ratio and the minimum lot size. SuburbScan reports the ones applying at a property address. These are maximums an instrument allows, not approvals — a proposal still has to satisfy the zone, any overlays and the council's own controls. Not every property carries all four. Some height limits are published as a level above sea level rather than a height above the ground, and are labelled that way, because the two are different numbers.

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The Planning and Design Code zone applying to every parcel of land in South Australia. SuburbScan reports the zone a property address sits in and the share of each suburb in each kind of zone. Height and density limits sit in the Code's policy and its technical and numeric variations, which are not shown.

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The Tasmanian Planning Scheme zones for 28 of the 29 councils, and Kingborough's interim planning scheme zones, which it still uses. SuburbScan reports the zone a property address sits in and the share of each suburb in each kind of zone.

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Areas set aside for new suburbs and urban renewal: Victorian precinct structure plans, NSW growth area and employment land precincts under the Precincts State Environmental Planning Policies, and Queensland's Priority Development Areas. Each agency lists only the plans it leads, so council-led plans may be missing.

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The Queensland Government's broadhectare study of land available for future housing, with the expected timing of development and a dwelling yield for each parcel. Yields are published as ranges, so SuburbScan's totals are ranges too.

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Land that NSW local environmental plans designate for new urban development, and the boundary marking the long-term limit of Melbourne's urban development, with the land outside it. Shown in the Growth Areas section of property pages.

OLG publishes per-financial-year time series covering every NSW council's financial and service indicators. SuburbScan ingests the most recent two FYs and surfaces the Average Residential Rate per assessment with a year-on-year change.

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LGV publishes service-performance and financial indicators for every VIC council. SuburbScan uses the average rate per property assessment, with the prior financial year as the year-on-year baseline.

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DLGSC publishes every WA council's annual rate revenue, financial-sustainability scores and population. MyCouncil doesn't break out a residential-only rate, so SuburbScan approximates the average residential rate by dividing total rate revenue by total residential dwellings (from ABS Census 2021) per LGA. This inflates remote shires with significant mining or commercial revenue.

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DLGWV publishes an annual Comparative Information Report covering every Queensland council. The Residential Rating spreadsheet lists Average General Rate payable per residential property for each major urban centre within each LGA. SuburbScan averages across listed towns to get a single LGA figure, with current + prior FYs giving a year-on-year trend. UV basis across all QLD councils.

The SA Local Government Grants Commission publishes annual Database Reports as multi-page PDFs. Report 6 (Council Rating Arrangements) carries per-council total residential rates per rateable residential property plus the rating basis (CV / SV / AV — different per SA council). SuburbScan parses Report 6 directly with two FYs giving a year-on-year baseline.

Tasmania publishes ten financial years of council data. SuburbScan divides the residential component of rates by census residential dwellings to estimate the average per household. AAV/CV mixed valuation basis (the per-council basis is not published).

ACT is a single rating jurisdiction (no councils — the territory government performs council functions). SuburbScan reads the average general rate per residential property from ACT Treasury's annual Aggregate Land Value paper, published with each Budget, blended across unit and non-unit properties by the property counts in that paper. UV basis (3-year average unimproved value). Excludes the Fire and Emergency Services Levy, Safer Families Levy and health levy for cross-state methodology consistency. An earlier method estimated this from a single representative valuation, which understated the territory-wide average: the ACT rating schedule is progressive, and units — about two in five residential properties — are rated well below houses.

NT has no centralised comparative dataset. Each of the 18 NT councils publishes its own annual Declaration of Rates and Charges PDF. SuburbScan transcribes residential rate parameters (multiplier, minimum, or flat charge) into a registry from each council's published declaration. UV basis across all NT councils. Most NT regional councils use flat per-allotment fixed charges rather than rate-in-the-dollar formulas.

The AEC publishes the Commonwealth Electoral Division (CED) boundaries and, for each federal election, the two-party-preferred results and members elected by division. SuburbScan spatially joins every suburb to its federal division and layers on the sitting member and recent election history.

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The VEC publishes results for every Legislative Assembly district: the elected member, the count after preferences and the two-party-preferred vote. SuburbScan matches every Victorian suburb, and every address on a property page, to its state district (Vicmap's 2022 district boundaries, which also apply in 2026) and shows the member and the 2014, 2018 and 2022 results. © Victorian Electoral Commission.

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The NSWEC publishes the distribution of preferences for every Legislative Assembly district. SuburbScan matches every NSW suburb, and every address on a property page, to its state district (the 2021 boundaries, which also apply in 2027) and shows the member and the 2015, 2019 and 2023 results. The NSWEC publishes no Labor v Coalition two-party figure per district, so none is shown. © State of New South Wales through the NSW Electoral Commission; results adapted (final counts extracted).

Election results for every lower-house district, used as facts: who was elected, their party and, where one member is elected, their share of the vote after preferences. SuburbScan matches every suburb, and every address on a property page, to its district: 47 House of Assembly districts (2026 boundaries, data.sa, CC BY 3.0 AU).

Election results for every lower-house district, used as facts: who was elected, their party and, where one member is elected, their share of the vote after preferences. SuburbScan matches every suburb, and every address on a property page, to its district: 93 districts (2017 determination, data.qld, CC BY 4.0; new districts apply from 2028).

Election results for every lower-house district, used as facts: who was elected, their party and, where one member is elected, their share of the vote after preferences. SuburbScan matches every suburb, and every address on a property page, to its district: 59 districts (Geoscape via data.gov.au, CC BY 4.0).

Election results for every lower-house district, used as facts: who was elected, their party and, where one member is elected, their share of the vote after preferences. SuburbScan matches every suburb, and every address on a property page, to its district: 25 divisions (Geoscape via data.gov.au, CC BY 4.0).

Election results for every lower-house district, used as facts: who was elected, their party and, where one member is elected, their share of the vote after preferences. SuburbScan matches every suburb, and every address on a property page, to its district: 5 House of Assembly divisions (Geoscape via data.gov.au, CC BY 4.0).

Election results for every lower-house district, used as facts: who was elected, their party and, where one member is elected, their share of the vote after preferences. SuburbScan matches every suburb, and every address on a property page, to its district: 5 electorates (Geoscape via data.gov.au, CC BY 4.0).

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National dataset of public and private hospitals sourced from the National Health Services Directory (NHSD), maintained by Geoscience Australia. Used to find the nearest hospitals to any property address. CC BY 4.0.

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GP and medical centre locations sourced from the National Health Services Directory (NHSD). Used to find the nearest GP clinics to any property address.

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Pharmacy locations sourced from the National Health Services Directory (NHSD). Used to find the nearest pharmacies to any property address.

Licensed CC BY 4.0

Police station locations sourced from Geoscience Australia's Emergency Management Facilities dataset. Used to find the nearest police stations to any property address.

Licensed CC BY 3.0 AU

Every bank, credit union and building society branch, and every post office offering Bank@Post, as reported to APRA at 30 June each year. Used to find the nearest branches to any property address.

Licensed ODbL 1.0

OpenStreetMap (OSM) supplies the amenity data for several non-government categories on SuburbScan. We extract beaches, cafes & restaurants, fuel stations, supermarkets, parks & reserves, and water features (lakes / rivers / canals) from a Geofabrik Australia OSM PBF extract. Unnamed features and stormwater drains mistagged as waterways are filtered out at extract time. © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.

The ACECQA National Register provides details on every approved childcare service in Australia, including capacity, service type, and National Quality Standard (NQS) rating. Centres are geocoded against the GNAF address database for accurate proximity queries.

Licensed ACMA Register licence

Every radio transmitter licence in Australia, with the site it is at. SuburbScan identifies the mobile base stations licensed to Telstra, Optus and TPG to show the nearest one to a property. A licensed site is not a coverage measurement. Based on Australian Communications and Media Authority information.