What do homes in Ocean Shores sell for, and where is it heading?
The middle sale here was $1.19M in 2025, against $970k for the typical NSW suburb in 2025. Prices are up 144% on a decade ago.
Median sale price by year
Houses and units together · hollow point = 2026 to 2 Nov
Source NSW Valuer General sales 1
How long sales take to settle
Median days from contract to settlement for homes, by the year they settled. This isn't time on the market, which VG doesn't record · 38 days in 2025 · 2026 so far
Source NSW Valuer General sales 1
Units settling 6+ months after contract
Share of the unit sales settling each year that settled more than 180 days after contract, mostly bought off the plan · 0% in 2025 · 2026 so far, more to arrive
Source NSW Valuer General sales 1
Vacant land, per m²
Median price per square metre of vacant land sold, lots up to 2 ha · 2025: $560k median across 9 sales, $615 per m² · 2025 on still filling in: land bought off the plan reaches VG only when it settles
Source NSW Valuer General sales 1
House block size
Median land area of the houses sold · 882 m² in 2025
Source NSW Valuer General sales 1
Commercial, farm and other property
Sales VG records as neither a home nor vacant land: shops, offices, factories, farms and more · one per dealing · 2025: 1 sales
Source NSW Valuer General sales 1
Renting in postcode 2483
Source NSW Fair Trading rental bonds 4 · ATO Taxation Statistics 2023–24 5
How its land is zoned
Share of the suburb's land area · Main zone by homes: R2 Low Density Residential
- Residential24%
- Business and employment0.2%
- Industrial0%
- Rural and conservation56%
- Recreation and special purpose12%
- Waterways, deferred or unzoned8.8%
Source NSW EPI zoning and heritage maps 14
Heritage
Homes on a heritage item or in a heritage conservation area: 0.1% in all · 5.4% of its land
- On a heritage item0.1%
- In a conservation area0%
- Neither100%
Source NSW EPI zoning and heritage maps 14
Strata schemes
187 strata schemes are registered in Ocean Shores, with 579 lots between them, and 23% of its addresses are in one (NSW 25%). They were registered 15.9 years ago on average (NSW 29.1), which dates the scheme, not always its building.
A scheme is counted where most of its addresses are. Lots include the garages, storerooms and shops a plan makes lots of, and a scheme that has been wound up leaves the register.
Source StrataHub strata plans 32
When its schemes were registered
Share of its schemes under each strata Act · NSW: 9.0%, 40%, 36% and 15%
These date each scheme's registration, not its building: an older block can be strata-titled long after it went up.
Source StrataHub strata plans 32
See the share of addresses in a strata scheme on the map
Building approvals
20 dwellings were approved in Ocean Shores in 2025–26, 3.3 for every 1,000 residents (NSW 6.1): 16 houses and 4 other dwellings, such as townhouses and apartments. In 2026–27 to August, 2 dwellings so far.
Dwellings approved
Each financial year to June · 2026–27 to August, faint · dashed: NSW at this area's usual share
Source ABS Building Approvals 31
An approval is what may be built, not what was: a job can be approved again, built years later or never. One large development can make a year, so the counts jump about. The ABS counts approvals by SA2; this area's figures share its SA2s' out by their residents, so they are estimates.
Source ABS Building Approvals 31
See dwellings approved per 1,000 residents on the map
First home buyers and transfer duty
In 2025–26, about 5 first home buyers in Ocean Shores were let off transfer duty or paid less under a NSW first home buyer scheme, down from 10 the year before. That's under 0.1% of the 32,137 across NSW. Transfer duty on residential property here came to about $7.34M, 0.1% of NSW's $10.6bn. Revenue NSW counts by postcode, so these are estimates: each postcode's figures are split by where its homes are.
First home buyer duty exemptions
Transfer duty exemptions and concessions each financial year, estimated from postcode figures
NSW, 2025–26: 32,137
Who qualifies for a first home buyer exemption, and up to what price, has changed over the years, so the counts follow the rules as well as demand.
Source Revenue NSW statistics by postcode 18
First Home Owner Grants paid
Payments each financial year, estimated from postcode figures
Grants aren't in this release.
Transfer duty paid on residential land
Duty paid each financial year, estimated from postcode figures
NSW, 2025–26: $10.6bn
| Against NSW | 2020–21 | 2025–26 | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Duty here (estimate) | $7.72M | $7.34M | −5% |
| NSW duty on residential land | $7.83bn | $10.7bn | +37% |
| NSW residential transfers | 215,274 | 200,697 | −7% |
NSW's lines are Revenue NSW's land-related duty statistics, which count residential transfers by the documents it receives; duty here comes from its postcode statistics, by the postcode on each lodged transfer. They're counted differently, so compare how each changed, not the amounts. Both run from 2020–21, the first year of the postcode figures.
Exemptions are counted when the transfer is lodged and grants when they're paid, so the two don't match. Duty is the amount paid, not a count of sales.
Source Revenue NSW statistics by postcode 18
Is crime rising in Ocean Shores?
32 incidents per 1,000 residents in 2025, 52% below the NSW rate (66.1; lower is better).
Recorded crime per 1,000 residents
All offences except transport fare evasion
Source BOCSAR recorded crime 2
By offence type
2025 rate per 1,000 residents, with the NSW rate · lines show 2001–2025 · shaded: years above NSW
Violent crime0.6× NSW
Property crime0.5× NSW
Domestic violence assault0.7× NSW
Home break-ins0.5× NSW
Vehicle theft0.7× NSW
Source BOCSAR recorded crime 2
Who lives in Ocean Shores?
On income, education, jobs and housing together, Ocean Shores ranks in the 50th percentile of NSW suburbs.
SEIFA 2021 deciles
1 = most disadvantaged tenth of Australian areas, 10 = most advantaged
Source ABS SEIFA 2021 3
Postcode 2483 profile
- Residents (2021)
- 11,616
- Median age
- 44
- Households renting
- 28.6%
- Flats and apartments
- 7.9%
- People per km²
- 64
- Median taxable income
- $46k
- Taxpayers with a rental loss
- 6.2%
Source ABS Census 2021 6 · ATO Taxation Statistics 2023–24 5
Population
An estimated 6,160 people lived in Ocean Shores at 30 June 2025, up 1.1% on a year earlier, against +1.2% across NSW. That's 803 more people than in 2015 (+15%).
The ABS publishes these estimates for SA2 areas and councils. This place's figures share out its SA2s' estimates by their 2021 Census residents, so growth inside an SA2 is spread evenly across it.
Source ABS Regional Population 7
Growth each year
Change over the year to 30 June, against NSW
Source ABS Regional Population 7
Income
Residents of Ocean Shores who lodged a tax return had a median income of $43,046 in 2022–23, against $58,909 across NSW. That's 20.1% more than in 2018–19 (NSW +19%). For 65.9%, most income came from wages and salaries.
Residents who lodged a tax return, by where they live; government pensions and allowances aren't counted, and neither are people who didn't lodge. The ABS publishes income for SA2 areas and councils. This place's figures are the average of its SA2s' figures, weighted by the residents it shares with each (2021 Census), so they describe the wider area as much as this place.
Source ABS Data by Region 8
Median income each year
All sources, before tax · financial years 2018–19 to 2022–23, by the year they end
Source ABS Data by Region 8
Where income comes from
The source most of each person's income came from, 2022–23
- Wages and salaries66%NSW 80%
- Own business16%NSW 6.7%
- Investments17%NSW 12%
- Super and annuities0.9%NSW 0.9%
- Other sources1.1%NSW 0.7%
Median income from each source
Among the people with any income from it
- Wages and salariesNSW $63,301
- $44,793
- Own businessNSW $12,714
- $14,105
- InvestmentsNSW $240
- $356
Source ABS Data by Region 8
How did Ocean Shores vote?
Federal elections
At the 2025 federal election, the two-party-preferred vote in Ocean Shores split an estimated 73.0% Labor to 27.0% Coalition, against 55.3% to 44.7% across NSW. That's a swing of 7.2 points to Labor since 2022 (across NSW, 3.9 points to Labor). Like every figure here, it's estimated from the polling places where votes were cast, not where voters live: built from 40% of the formal votes cast in its electorates.
The 2025 federal election
Polling day 3 May 2025 · estimated from where votes were cast, not where voters live
First preferences
- Labor25%
- Coalition11%
- Greens45%
- Independents4.1%
- Other candidates15%
NSW: Labor 35% · Coalition 32% · Greens 11% · Independents 10% · Other candidates 13%
Votes are counted where they're cast. Where the electoral commission publishes votes by where electors live (federal 2019 and 2022), nearly every vote is placed; otherwise each election-day vote is placed at the polling places nearest the homes it serves, and pre-poll, postal and absent votes can't be placed, so the share a figure is built from is shown beside it.
Source AEC Tally Room federal election results (31496) · AEC, CC BY 4.0 9
Labor's two-party-preferred share
Each federal election, against NSW · above each point, the swing since the election before
Votes each estimate is built from: 2007 77% · 2010 73% · 2013 63% · 2016 59% · 2019 100% · 2022 100% · 2025 40%
Source AEC Tally Room federal election results (31496) · AEC, CC BY 4.0 9
Its federal electorate, 2025
The division its residents vote in · the AEC's own count for the whole division, not an estimate
Elected: Justine ELLIOT (Labor)
Final count, two candidates
First preferences, 10 candidates
126,814 enrolled · 104,952 formal votes · 7.6% informal
Results on the AEC siteSource AEC Tally Room federal election results (31496) · AEC, CC BY 4.0 9
State elections
At the 2023 state election, Greens took the most first preferences in Ocean Shores, an estimated 46.4%. There's no two-party-preferred estimate: most of the votes in its districts came from contests whose final two weren't Labor and the Coalition. Like every figure here, it's estimated from the polling places where votes were cast, not where voters live: built from 51% of the formal votes cast in its electorates.
The 2023 state election
Polling day 25 March 2023 · estimated from where votes were cast, not where voters live
First preferences
- Labor24%
- Coalition15%
- Greens46%
- Independents9.5%
- Other candidates5.1%
NSW: Labor 37% · Coalition 35% · Greens 10% · Independents 9% · Other candidates 9%
Votes are counted where they're cast. Where the electoral commission publishes votes by where electors live (federal 2019 and 2022), nearly every vote is placed; otherwise each election-day vote is placed at the polling places nearest the homes it serves, and pre-poll, postal and absent votes can't be placed, so the share a figure is built from is shown beside it.
Source NSW Electoral Commission past election results (SG2301) · NSWEC, CC BY 4.0 10
Its state electorate, 2023
The district its residents vote in · the NSW Electoral Commission's own count for the whole district, not an estimate
Elected: Tamara SMITH (The Greens NSW)
Final count, two candidates
First preferences, 5 candidates
58,971 enrolled · 47,739 formal votes · 3.0% informal
Results on the NSW Electoral Commission siteSource NSW Electoral Commission past election results (SG2301) · NSWEC, CC BY 4.0 10
Could fire or flood reach Ocean Shores?
48% of addresses fall on mapped bush fire prone land. We have no flood map for it, so we can't say whether it floods.
Addresses on bush fire prone land
By RFS category · 81% of its land is mapped bush fire prone
- Category 1 vegetation6.3%
- Category 213%
- Category 30.1%
- Buffer29%
- Not bush fire prone52%
Source NSW RFS bush fire prone land 11
Flood planning area
Live hazards within 5 km
Checking the live feeds…
Source Live Traffic NSW · NSW RFS 21
Official alerts: Hazards Near Me · Live Traffic NSW
Rooftop solar
Source Clean Energy Regulator 19
How easy is it to get around Ocean Shores?
The nearest station or wharf is Kyogle Station, 54.1 km from the middle of the suburb as the crow flies. Police recorded 56 crashes in which someone was killed or injured in Ocean Shores over 2016–2025, about 5.6 a year; 18 of them were fatal or caused a serious injury. That's 1 a year per 1,000 residents, 43% below the NSW rate (1.7; lower is better).
Nearest stations and wharves
Straight-line distance from the suburb's centre
Source TfNSW static GTFS 24
Travel time to the city
Nearest traffic cameras
Live images, refreshed by TfNSW about once a minute
No TfNSW traffic camera within 30 km of the middle of Ocean Shores.
Source TfNSW Live Traffic Cameras 22
Crashes in which someone was hurt
Killed or injured, by reporting year · 56 over 2016–2025, and 34 more where a vehicle was towed away and no one was hurt
Source TfNSW NSW Crash Data 15
How severe, and who was involved
2016–2025 together
Source TfNSW NSW Crash Data 15
Streets with the most casualty crashes
Within Ocean Shores, 2016–2025
Source TfNSW NSW Crash Data 15
Public transport
At 8–9am on a weekday, no resident of Ocean Shores lives where public transport access is good (TfNSW level 4, medium–high, or better); across NSW 33% do. Their average level is 0.4 of 6 (no service), below NSW's 2.6 (higher is better). The share is much the same as in December 2022.
Average access level, 8–9am
TfNSW's 0–6 level, averaged over residents · weekday timetable, December 2025
TfNSW scores every mesh block (a few dozen homes) for each hour of a weekday from the walk to nearby stops and how often services call there, from 1 (low) to 6 (very high); 0 means no service that hour. A place's figure is the average over the people who live there, not a level TfNSW publishes.
Source TfNSW PTAL 16
Residents with good access
Share living at level 4 (medium–high) or better, 8–9am, each December
Average level by December: 2022 0.4 · 2023 0.4 · 2024 0.4 · 2025 0.4
Source TfNSW PTAL 16
TfNSW counts registered vehicles by council, not by suburb: the council's figures, its battery electric share among them, are on the Byron page.
Which schools is Ocean Shores zoned for?
76% of homes here are zoned for Ocean Shores Public School, and every one for Mullumbimby High School. One government school is in Ocean Shores itself (1 primary).
Local primary schools
Share of the suburb's addresses inside each school's catchment
Source NSW Department of Education 13
Local high schools
The catchment that takes year 7; single-sex schools marked
Source NSW Department of Education 13
Government schools in Ocean Shores
Source NSW Department of Education 13
How far is the local school?
Straight line from the middle home to its zoned school
Source NSW Department of Education 13
Ambulance
In 2025–26, ambulances were sent 211.2 times for every 1,000 residents of the area around Ocean Shores (NSW 182.2). In April to June 2026, half of its emergency calls were reached within 17 minutes and nine in ten within 36 minutes (NSW 14 and 33): lower is quicker.
Ambulances sent per 1,000 residents
The wider area around here, each financial year · the dotted line marks the response grid change
NSW Ambulance changed how it sends ambulances in February 2025, and NSW's responses fell 6.4% that quarter, so years either side of the line don't strictly compare.
Source BHI Healthcare Quarterly 28
Emergency (category 2) calls. Half are reached within the median, and nine in ten within the 90th percentile; lower is quicker.
Source BHI Healthcare Quarterly 28
Who's in business in Ocean Shores?
An estimated 676 businesses registered for GST had an address in Ocean Shores at 30 June 2025, 110 for every 1,000 residents (NSW 107). 4% turn over $2 million or more a year, against 8.8% across NSW. Compared with NSW, more of them are in arts and recreation and media and telecommunications.
The ABS publishes these counts for SA2 areas and councils. This place's figures share out its SA2s' counts by their 2021 Census residents, so they are estimates, and a business is counted where its registered address is.
Source ABS Data by Region 8
Businesses at 30 June
2021–2025 · the dashed line is NSW's count scaled to this place's usual share
Source ABS Data by Region 8
Turnover and size
Share of businesses by yearly turnover and by employees, June 2025
- Under $50k18%NSW 23%
- $50k to $200k40%NSW 32%
- $200k to $2m38%NSW 36%
- $2m or more4%NSW 8.8%
By employees
- No employees64%NSW 61%
- 1–4 employees26%NSW 28%
- 5–198.4%NSW 8.2%
- 20 or more1.3%NSW 2.5%
Source ABS Data by Region 8
Industry mix
Share of businesses in each industry, June 2025 · most over-represented against NSW first
Source ABS Data by Region 8
Going out
Ocean Shores had 5 licensed venues on October 2026's list: 1 hotel, 1 club, 2 restaurants and other on-premises venues and 1 bottle shop. That's up from 4 in 2021.
Licensed venues each year
October lists, 2021–2026
Each year is that October's list: Liquor & Gaming NSW cancels licences in bulk once a year, so months don't compare. Venues that have stopped trading for six weeks or more, or are suspended, aren't counted. What a licence allows, not when a venue opens, and leaving out clubs, whose licences have no set hours.
Source Liquor & Gaming NSW premises list 25
See licensed venues on the map
Poker machines
Bowerbird estimates that poker machines in clubs and hotels in Ocean Shores made about $3.4M in net profit in 2025. It's a model, not a published figure: Liquor & Gaming NSW publishes net profit only by council.
Machine profit each year (estimate)
2021–2026 · 2026 is to June (clubs to May)
Bowerbird's model of what each club's and hotel's machines kept after paying out prizes, before gaming tax, fitted to Liquor & Gaming NSW's venue rankings, machine counts and council totals and added up by where the venues are. Liquor & Gaming NSW publishes no such figure, so read it as a rough one: a venue that made a loss reads as a small profit, and where clubs' own accounts were reported, most read 5% to 12% below the model. Venues' takings include visitors, so this isn't what the area's own residents lost. Hotel years run January to December and club years December to November.
Source Bowerbird estimate, from Liquor & Gaming NSW 26
See the estimate for every suburb on the map
Active ABNs · supporting lens
Postcode 2483 has 5,699 active ABNs, and 703 new ones began in 2025.
Where every number comes from
- NSW Valuer General, Property Sales Information (market sales). Market sales, 2001 to 2 November 2026, one price per dealing, each placed in its suburb through its lot and plan or address in G-NAF, else its locality and postcode. Bulk, part and nominal sales excluded; medians need at least 5 sales. Homes are what VG records as a residence; vacant land and commercial, farm and other property are counted apart. Settlement times go by the year a sale settled, and the latest year is still filling in. Land per m² and block sizes use the lot area VG records.
- NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research, recorded criminal incidents by suburb. 2001–2025. Rates per 1,000 residents use the ABS estimated resident population of the same year, estimated for suburbs from SA2s; shown only where at least 200 people live.
- ABS Socio-Economic Indexes for Areas (SEIFA) 2021, by suburb (SAL). Percentile = rank among NSW suburbs with at least 100 residents. CC BY 4.0.
- NSW Fair Trading rental bond lodgements. New bonds lodged Oct 2025 – Sep 2026, by postcode.
- ATO Taxation Statistics 2023–24, Individuals Table 6 (postcode). Median taxable income and net rental losses of people who lodged with a postcode here.
- ABS Census of Population and Housing 2021. Residents, age, renting and dwelling type. CC BY 4.0.
- Australian Bureau of Statistics, Regional Population: estimated resident population by SA2 and council, 30 June 2001–2025 (ABS Data API). The ABS's estimate of the people who usually live in each area at 30 June, updated every year from the Census, births, deaths and migration (June 2025 figures, released March 2026). The ABS publishes SA2s and councils; a suburb's or postcode's figure shares its SA2s' estimates out by their 2021 Census residents, so growth inside an SA2 is spread evenly across it; a place's growth is worked out from those figures. Growth is left out where fewer than 100 people lived the year before. CC BY 4.0.
- Australian Bureau of Statistics, Data by Region: personal income in Australia (from personal income tax returns, 2018–19 to 2022–23) and Counts of Australian Businesses (30 June 2021–2025), by SA2 and council (ABS Data API). Income counts the residents who lodged a tax return, by where they live; government pensions and allowances are left out, and medians and shares where fewer than 100 people earned that income. Businesses are those registered for GST, counted by the address they give, with the share turning over $2 million or more shown where there are at least 50. The ABS publishes SA2s and councils; a suburb's or postcode's income is the average of its SA2s', weighted by the residents it shares with each (2021 Census), and its business counts share its SA2s' out the same way, so both are estimates. CC BY 4.0.
- Australian Electoral Commission, House of Representatives results by polling place, and votes by where electors live (SA1), federal elections 2007–2025 (AEC Tally Room). Votes are counted where they are cast, not where voters live, so a place's figures are estimates. For 2019 and 2022 they come from the AEC's count of votes by the SA1 electors live in, which places nearly every vote; for the other elections, each election-day vote is placed at the polling places nearest the homes in its division, shared by their residents (2021 Census), and pre-poll, postal and absent votes can't be placed. So each figure shows the share of its electorates' formal votes it is built from. Two-party-preferred is Labor against the Coalition. Electorates, members and candidates are the AEC's own results for each whole division. © Commonwealth of Australia (Australian Electoral Commission), CC BY 4.0.
- NSW Electoral Commission, Legislative Assembly results by polling place (state elections 2015–2023) and local government results by council, ward and mayoralty (2021 and 2024), from its past results site. State figures are estimates, as for federal: each election-day vote is placed at the polling places nearest the homes in its district, shared by their residents (2021 Census), and pre-poll, postal, iVote and absent votes can't be placed, so each figure shows the share of its districts' formal votes it is built from. Two-party-preferred is Labor against the Coalition, from NSWEC's two-candidate count where the final two were Labor and the Coalition; districts where they weren't have no two-party figure. Council results are NSWEC's own counts for each council, ward and mayoralty, not estimates; a council's polling places place it, never its name. Districts, members, councillors and candidates are NSWEC's own results. © State of New South Wales through the NSW Electoral Commission, CC BY 4.0.
- NSW RFS Bush Fire Prone Land, matched to G-NAF addresses. The full certified map (vegetation categories 1–3 and the buffer), every live address tested. © NSW Rural Fire Service 2026, CC BY. A planning designation, not a risk rating.
- NSW flood planning areas mapped by LEPs and precinct SEPPs (DPHI), matched to G-NAF addresses. Only councils whose LEP maps a flood planning area, plus Western Sydney precinct maps. Councils have kept their own flood maps since July 2021, so check with the council for the latest. CC BY 3.0 AU.
- NSW Department of Education school intake zones and public schools master dataset (data.nsw.gov.au), matched to G-NAF addresses. Editions of 2 Oct 2026. Every live address is tested against each catchment. Enrolment is the August census (full-time equivalent); ICSEA as the department publishes it. Government schools only. CC BY.
- NSW EPI Primary Planning Layers (DPHI): land zoning and heritage items and conservation areas of every LEP and SEPP. Zone shares by land area in ABS 2021 boundaries; heritage shares of G-NAF addresses, each tested at its point. The instrument's map, not legal advice: the instrument and a planning certificate decide what applies to a lot. CC BY 3.0 AU.
- Transport for NSW Centre for Road Safety, NSW Crash Data (opendata.transport.nsw.gov.au), placed by each crash's coordinates. Police-reported crashes, reporting years 2016–2025, each year from the newest of the centre's five-year windows that covers it (2016–2020 to 2021–2025; the newest edition of 8 Oct 2026): fatal, injury and towaway crashes, with the road users involved. Rates per 1,000 residents use the ABS estimated resident population averaged over the same years, shown where at least 200 people live. Crash counts follow traffic, so busy roads and centres read high. CC BY.
- Transport for NSW, Public Transport Accessibility Level (PTAL) by ABS 2021 mesh block (opendata.transport.nsw.gov.au). December 2022–2025 snapshots, each a weekday's timetable (the first Tuesday in December; school buses excluded). TfNSW bands its accessibility index from the walk to nearby stops and how often they are served into levels 1 (low) to 6 (very high); 0 is our code for a mesh block with no service that hour. Averaged over residents (ABS 2021 mesh-block counts) for suburbs, postcodes and councils: a summary, not a level TfNSW publishes. CC BY.
- NSW Department of Planning, Housing and Infrastructure, Greater Sydney Region Tree Canopy to Modified Mesh Block, 2022 and 2024/25 (SEED). Aerial surveys of Greater Sydney's urban and rural areas (ArborCarbon, 0.48 m imagery; the 2022 and 2024/25 surveys share a method). The share of land under vegetation taller than 3 m, summed from DPHI's modified mesh blocks to ABS mesh blocks (those at least half surveyed, with a 2016 code that is also a 2021 one) and weighted by the land surveyed for suburbs, postcodes and councils. CC BY 4.0.
- Revenue NSW, duty, first home buyer and land tax statistics by postcode (revenue.nsw.gov.au), data as at 1 October 2026. Financial years to June 2026, each shown once it has ended: first home buyer duty exemptions and concessions from 2009–10, First Home Owner Grant payments from 2021–22 and transfer duty on residential land from 2020–21, each by the postcode on the lodged transfer or the grant. Exemptions are counted at lodgement and grants at payment, so the two don't match; duty is the amount paid, not a count of sales. Suburb and council figures are estimates, shared out from postcodes by their 2021 dwellings (ABS mesh blocks). CC BY.
- Clean Energy Regulator, small-scale installations by postcode. Solar systems per 100 separate houses (Census 2021, growth-adjusted).
- Australian Business Register, ABN Bulk Extract, 14 Oct 2026. Active ABNs by postcode. CC BY 3.0 AU.
- Live Traffic NSW (TfNSW) and NSW RFS major incidents.
- Transport for NSW, Live Traffic Cameras (camera list and webcam images). Still images, refreshed about once a minute; not video. CC BY 4.0.
- NSW FuelCheck service station prices, via API.NSW. Live, shown only when the Bowerbird live server is running with a key. Prices as stations last reported them.
- TfNSW Open Data static GTFS (Sydney Trains, Metro, Light Rail, Sydney Ferries). Station locations. CC BY 4.0.
- Liquor & Gaming NSW, licensed premises list, each October from 2021, © State of New South Wales, CC BY 4.0. Licences with premises people go to, placed by the list's own coordinates. Limited licences, pop-ups, producers and delivery-only businesses aren't counted, nor are venues that have stopped trading for six weeks or more. Hours tiers are what a licence allows, not when a venue opens. The list's licensees aren't shown.
- Bowerbird estimate, modelled from Liquor & Gaming NSW's gaming machine reports, © State of New South Wales, CC BY 4.0. Our estimate of each club's and hotel's net profit from its machines, before gaming tax, from 2017 (suburbs from 2021). Liquor & Gaming NSW publishes each venue's rank by net profit and its machines, and dollars only by council; the model fits the ranks to the council totals and adds the venues up by the postcode and council the rankings give and the suburb the premises list places them in. It isn't a published figure, and this release has a range for a venue (the map's venue card) but none for an area: on council rows held back, its median error is under 1%, and where clubs' own accounts were reported, most read 5% to 12% below it. A venue with a loss reads as a small profit. Takings include visitors. The latest year is a part year.
- ABS Australian Statistical Geography Standard 2021: suburbs and localities, postal areas, LGAs. Boundaries. CC BY 4.0.
- Bureau of Health Information. Healthcare Quarterly: Ambulance. Sydney (NSW); BHI. Free to use for non-commercial purposes with BHI acknowledged. NSW Ambulance responses and incidents by financial year, and emergency (category 2) response times for the latest quarter, as BHI reports them by ABS statistical area (SA3). A suburb, postcode or council takes the figures of the SA3 around it, so they are the wider area's, not its own. Rates per 1,000 residents use the SA3's ABS estimated resident population. NSW Ambulance changed its response grid in February 2025, so responses either side of it don't strictly compare.
- Australian Bureau of Statistics, Building Approvals, Australia, CC BY 4.0: dwelling units approved by SA2 (ABS Data API). Dwelling units approved each month from July 2021, by councils and private certifiers: new houses, townhouses and apartments, and the dwellings alterations create, added up by financial year to June; the latest year runs to the latest month the ABS has published for small areas. An approval is what may be built, not what was. Per 1,000 residents divides by the ABS estimated resident population at the start of the year, left out under 200 residents. The ABS publishes SA2s and councils; a suburb's or postcode's figure shares its SA2s' approvals out by their 2021 Census residents, so it is an estimate. Original series, not seasonally adjusted.
- © State of New South Wales (Spatial Services, a business unit of the Department of Customer Service NSW) 2026, StrataHub strata plans. The register of strata schemes as at 3 November 2026, each placed through its plan number or footprint at its G-NAF addresses and counted where most of them are. Lots include the garages, storerooms and shops a plan makes lots of; the share of addresses counts a scheme's units and common property. Ages and eras date each scheme's registration, not its building. A scheme that has been wound up leaves the register. Creative Commons (no version stated).
Suburb boundaries are ABS Suburbs and Localities (SAL 2021). For now, suburb figures are joined by name; they will move to the G-NAF locality ID.