Northern Territory Suburb and Locality Boundaries from Australian Cadastre

Geoscape Australia builds and maintains these digital Suburb/Locality Boundaries using authoritative government cadastre data from each Australian state and territory. Updated versions of the full Administrative Boundaries dataset, which includes seven products like Local Government Areas and Electoral Boundaries, are published quarterly. The data is available under a CC BY 4.0 license, negotiated by the Australian Government for release to the whole economy.

Use Cases

• Map service area definitions based on official suburb and locality boundaries.
• Perform spatial joins for demographic analysis using the described ABS Boundaries product.
• Visualize electoral districts for campaign planning based on the described Electoral Boundaries.
• Integrate with other geospatial datasets using the authoritative cadastre-derived boundaries.

Strengths

• Derived from authoritative government cadastre data from each Australian jurisdiction.
• Updated on a quarterly basis, with the last update noted as May 2026.
• Available under a standardized open license (CC BY 4.0).

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

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

Collection Method

Derived from authoritative government cadastre data.

Freshness

Quarterly updates; last updated 2026-05-18.

Geography

Northern Territory, Australia.