(Other) Suburb/Locality Boundaries - Geoscape Administrative Boundaries

The digital Suburb/Locality Boundaries and their legal identifiers have been derived from the cadastre data from each state and territory jurisdiction and are available below.

Suburb/Locality Boundaries are part of Geoscape Administrative Boundaries, which is built and maintained by Geoscape Australia using authoritative government data. Further information about contributors to Administrative Boundaries is available here.

The full Administrative Boundaries dataset comprises seven Geoscape products:

• Localities
• Local Government Areas (LGAs)
• Wards
• Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) Boundaries,
• Electoral Boundaries
• State Boundaries and
• Town Points

Updated versions of Administrative Boundaries are published on a quarterly basis. Users have the option to download datasets with feature coordinates referencing either GDA94 or GDA2020 datums.

There were no updates in the February 2025 release

Notable changes in the August 2021 release:

• The Localities, Local Government Areas and Wards products have been redesigned to provide a new flattened data model, offering a simpler, easier-to-use structure. This will also:
  • change the composition of identifiers in these products.
  • provide state identifiers as an abbreviation (eg. NSW) rather than a code.
  • remove the static SA “Hundreds” data from Localities.
• More information on the changes to Localities, Local Government Areas and Wards is available here.
• The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) Boundaries will be updated to include the 2021 Australian Statistical Geography Standard (ASGS).
• Further information on the August changes to Geoscape datasets is available here.

Further information on Administrative Boundaries, including FAQs on the data, is available here through Geoscape Australia’s network of partners. They provide a range of commercial products based on Administrative Boundaries, including software solutions, consultancy and support.

Note: On 1 October 2020, PSMA Australia Limited began trading as Geoscape Australia.

License Information

The Australian Government has negotiated the release of Administrative Boundaries to the whole economy under an open CCBY 4.0 license.

Users must only use the data in ways that are consistent with the Australian Privacy Principles issued under the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth).

Users must also note the following attribution requirements:

Preferred attribution for the Licensed Material:

Administrative Boundaries © Geoscape Australia licensed by the Commonwealth of Australia under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence (CC BY 4.0).

Preferred attribution for Adapted Material:

Incorporates or developed using Administrative Boundaries © Geoscape Australia licensed by the Commonwealth of Australia under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence (CC BY 4.0).