Early releaseNSW open dataCatalogue as of 28 Oct 2026

What the data says about any place in NSW.

Look up an address, a suburb, a postcode or a council for its sales and rents, crime, Census profile, hazards and schools, or watch the trains and traffic live. Every figure names the government dataset it came from.

Collecting NSW's suburbs…
Each suburb and locality in NSW, first as a dot at its centre and then as its boundary, coloured by the dataset each step of the story describes. Hover for a place's numbers; click or tap one, or search, for its card.
01The collection

suburbs and localities, each one a shape.

Each dot grows into its boundary as the ABS draws it: the tight mosaic of Sydney, the strung-out coast, and the far west, where one locality can be larger than a city.

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postcodes
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council areas
78
datasets in use, from 47 publishers

ABS ASGS 2021 suburbs and localities (SAL), postcodes (POA) and LGAs

02People

Half the state lives on a sliver of it.

The same shapes, coloured by who lives there: how closely, and how well off.

03Hazards

Fire on the ranges, water on the rivers.

Planning maps mark which homes sit on bush fire prone land, and which sit inside a council's flood planning area.

04Safety

Crime gathers in town centres. Road trauma spreads out.

Recorded crime is counted where it's reported; crashes where they happen. Both are rates per resident, so places people visit but few live in run high.

05Rent and roofs

Where rent eats the income, and where the roofs make power.

These two are published by postcode, so each is a circle at the postcode's centre rather than a suburb's colour.

06Sydney up close

Zoom in and the knot becomes a mosaic.

Greater Sydney's suburbs, coloured by what homes sold for in 2025: dearest around the harbour and the beaches.

07Your turn

Every shape is a place with its own card.

Click any suburb, or search for yours, and its card builds: sale prices back to 2001, crime, advantage, hazards, schools, and the rents and incomes of its postcode. Then walk next door.

Colour the map by

Open the map
08Where to start

Seven ways in, all on the same data.

Start from a map, a place, a feed or a table. Point at a preview to look closer.

Screenshot of the map page

Colour NSW by prices, rents, crime, income or new businesses, step through the years, and turn on cameras, incidents, fuel prices and moving trains.

Open the map
09What it covers

The questions people ask about a place.

78datasets in use
47publishers
172catalogued
10What else the data shows

Put the datasets side by side and patterns turn up.

All findings
11The name

The satin bowerbird lives in the forests of NSW and collects things, mostly blue ones, which it arranges into a display. Bowerbird does the same with what agencies publish about NSW.

Where the numbers come from

Everything here is open data, used under its publisher's licence. Each figure has a source line naming the dataset and the period it covers, so you can check it with the publisher.

It's an early release: some topics are thinner than others, and the data can be out of date or wrong. Nothing here is advice.

Data release
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Catalogue
28 October 2026: 78 datasets in use, 172 catalogued
Places
ABS ASGS 2021 suburbs and localities (SAL), postcodes (POA) and council areas (LGA)