Perth House Prices with School Rankings and Geospatial Coordinates

House price data for 322 Perth suburbs, averaging about 100 rows per suburb, scraped from a real estate website. The dataset includes longitude and latitude coordinates from a government source and rankings for the nearest ATAR-applicable secondary schools. Some school ranking data is missing where schools are unranked.

Use Cases

• Predict house prices based on location and proximity to schools.
• Analyze the correlation between school rankings and property values in Perth suburbs.
• Perform geospatial analysis of housing price distribution across Perth.
• Study the Australian secondary school ATAR system's influence on the real estate market.

Strengths

• Covers 322 Perth suburbs, providing broad geographic coverage.
• Integrates data from multiple sources: real estate listings, government geospatial data, and school rankings.
• The author states the chosen columns show significant correlation with the target price variable.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• The 'NEAREST_SCH_RANK' column contains missing values for unranked schools.

Provenance

Source

Scraped from http://house.speakingsame.com/, with longitude/latitude from data.gov.au and school rankings from bettereducation.

Collection Method

Web scraping and data integration from multiple open sources.

Geography

Perth, Western Australia, Australia.