Monthly updated counts of registered recreational vessels and active boating licences aggregated by postcode in New South Wales. Transport for NSW publishes this data, which includes recreational vessels (RV) and personal watercraft recreational (PWCR). The dataset is licensed under CC-BY-4.0.
Use Cases
- Analyze regional boating activity density based on vessel registration counts.
- Map boating licence holder distribution based on postcode-level counts.
- Correlate recreational vessel types (RV vs PWCR) with geographic areas.
- Monitor monthly changes in boating registrations and licences.
Strengths
- Monthly update frequency ensures relatively current data.
- Data is aggregated by postcode, providing geographic granularity.
- Distinguishes between recreational vessel (RV) and personal watercraft recreational (PWCR) registrations.
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.
Provenance
- Source
- Transport for NSW
- Freshness
- Monthly
- Geography
- New South Wales, Australia