ACT Suburb and Locality Boundaries from Australian Cadastre Data

Australian Capital Territory suburb and locality boundaries derived from state and territory cadastre data. The dataset is built and maintained by Geoscape Australia using authoritative government sources and is part of a larger suite of seven administrative boundary products. Updated versions are published quarterly, with the last update noted on 2026-05-18.

Use Cases

• Mapping urban and suburban areas based on official locality boundaries.
• Integrating administrative regions into spatial analysis platforms using the provided GEOJSON or WFS formats.
• Joining demographic or economic data using the legal identifiers for suburbs/localities.
• Visualizing jurisdictional layers by combining this dataset with other Geoscape Administrative Boundaries products.

Strengths

• Derived from authoritative government cadastre data from each state and territory.
• Updated on a quarterly publication schedule.
• Available with feature coordinates referencing both GDA94 and GDA2020 datums.
• Released under an open CC BY 4.0 license negotiated by the Australian Government.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count and total size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• The description notes there were no updates in the May 2026 release, which may indicate static data for that period.

Provenance

Source

Geoscape Australia, using cadastre data from Australian state and territory jurisdictions.

Collection Method

Derived from authoritative government cadastre data.

Freshness

Updated quarterly; last updated 2026-05-18 06:46:12.907333.

Geography

Australian Capital Territory, Australia.