NSW Local Government Area Administrative Boundaries for GDA2020

NSW Local Government Area is a dataset within the Administrative Boundaries Theme depicting polygons of gazetted boundaries defining the Local Government Area. It contains Council Names, ABS Codes, Ito Codes, Vg Codes, and Wb Codes and is updated daily. The dataset is provided by Spatial Services, a business unit of the Department of Customer Service NSW.

Use Cases

• Mapping and visualizing local government jurisdictions based on gazetted boundary polygons.
• Joining demographic or economic data to local government areas using the included ABS Codes.
• Maintaining topological alignment of administrative boundaries with land parcel and property datasets.

Strengths

• Updated daily, ensuring high data currency.
• Aligned with the national GDA2020 standard, improving positional accuracy and compatibility.
• Maintains topological alignment with the foundational Lot and Property digital datasets.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to data_gov_au, focusing solely on New South Wales.

Provenance

Source

Spatial Services (DCS)

Collection Method

Digitized from the best available cadastral mapping at scales ranging from 1:500 to 1:250,000.

Freshness

Daily

Geography

New South Wales, Australia