Data coverage
Burbfinder integrates Australian Bureau of Statistics releases with state-government open-data feeds — police crime stats, transport GTFS, rental-bond lodgements, valuer-general sale prices, and more. Coverage varies by jurisdiction because each state publishes on its own schedule and at its own granularity. The matrix below is the source of truth for what is loaded on production today.
| Source | NSW | VIC | QLD | WA | SA | TAS | NT | ACT | Loaded |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Parks & green space | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | — | — | — | 5 / 8 |
| Public transport | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | — | ● | 7 / 8 |
| Rental bonds | ● | ● | ● | — | ● | ● | — | — | 5 / 8 |
| Hospitals | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | 8 / 8 |
| Childcare centres | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | 8 / 8 |
| LGA dwelling approvals | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | 8 / 8 |
| Crime statistics | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | — | — | — | 5 / 8 |
| Schools | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | — | — | — | 5 / 8 |
| Sale prices | ● | ● | — | — | — | — | — | — | 2 / 8 |
| Bushfire & flood hazard | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | 8 / 8 |
| Planning zones | ● | ● | — | — | ● | ● | — | ● | 5 / 8 |
| School catchments | ● | — | — | — | ● | ● | — | ● | 4 / 8 |
●covered · — not yet loaded
About each source
- Parks & green spaceVIC · NSW · QLD · SA · WA
- Parks, reserves, and other green-space features pulled from OpenStreetMap via the Overpass API.
- Public transportVIC · NSW · QLD · WA · SA · TAS · ACT
- Stops and routes from each state's GTFS feed, used to compute walk-time and stop-density metrics.
- Rental bondsNSW · VIC · QLD · SA · TAS
- State rental-bond lodgement data — median weekly rent and lodgement counts by suburb.
- HospitalsAustralia-wide
- Public and private hospital locations from the AIHW national hospital register.
- Childcare centresAustralia-wide
- Approved childcare and early-learning services from the ACECQA national register.
- LGA dwelling approvalsAustralia-wide
- Monthly dwelling approvals by Local Government Area from ABS BA_LGA2025 (national coverage).
- Crime statisticsNSW · VIC · QLD · SA · WA
- Suburb-level offence counts published by each state police agency or crime-statistics bureau.
- SchoolsNSW · VIC · QLD · WA · SA
- Government, Catholic, and independent school locations from each state's school-locations register.
- Sale pricesVIC · NSW
- Median residential sale prices per suburb published by each state's Valuer-General.
- Bushfire & flood hazardAustralia-wide
- Designated bushfire-prone areas and gazetted flood mapping from each state's fire and water authorities.
- Planning zonesNSW · VIC · ACT · SA · TAS
- Per-suburb planning-scheme zone breakdown sourced from each state's planning portal or land registry.
- School catchmentsNSW · ACT · SA · TAS
- Government school catchment / intake-zone polygons published by each state's department of education.
Adding a state typically means a new fetcher, a state-specific normalisation step, and CI verification. We add jurisdictions as the upstream data is published in a machine-readable form.