ACT Districts Boundaries for Land Administration and Parcel Description

ACT Districts Boundaries are defined for land administration and the legal description of land parcels. The boundaries are defined in metres and bounds form in the Districts Act 1966 and cannot be changed without legislative amendment. The dataset is maintained by the ACT Government Geospatial Data Catalogue (ACTmapi) and was last updated on 2026-04-04.

Use Cases

• Map urban land parcel subdivisions based on district, division, section, and block hierarchy.
• Analyze rural land parcels based on district and block boundaries.
• Support legal land descriptions and property transactions using legislatively-defined boundaries.
• Integrate district boundaries into regional planning and GIS systems.
• Identify administrative overlaps where divisions span multiple districts, such as Red Hill.

Strengths

• Boundaries are legislatively defined in the Districts Act 1966, providing a stable legal foundation.
• Dataset is maintained by the ACT Government Geospatial Data Catalogue (ACTmapi), an authoritative source.
• Available in multiple geospatial formats including GeoJSON, GPKG, and ArcGIS REST API.
• Last updated on 2026-04-04, indicating recent maintenance.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count and dataset size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to the Australian Capital Territory.

Provenance

Source

ACT Government Geospatial Data Catalogue (ACTmapi)

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-04 03:07:35.383835.

Geography

Australian Capital Territory