Queensland Suburb and Locality Boundaries with Quarterly Updates

Geoscape Administrative Boundaries for Queensland suburbs and localities, derived from authoritative state cadastre data. The dataset is updated quarterly, with the latest release dated May 2026 noting spatial changes for five localities. It is published by the Department of Industry, Science and Resources under a CC BY 4.0 license.

Use Cases

• Spatial analysis of demographic data based on official suburb and locality boundaries.
• Mapping and visualization of administrative regions within Queensland.
• Integrating authoritative boundary data into GIS software for planning applications.
• Validating or updating address and location databases using the quarterly updated boundaries.

Strengths

• Derived from authoritative government cadastre data from each state and territory jurisdiction.
• Updated on a quarterly basis, with the latest update noted for May 2026.
• Offers coordinate data in both GDA94 and GDA2020 datums.

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 source jurisdictions.

Provenance

Source

Geoscape Australia, built from authoritative government data.

Collection Method

Derived from cadastre data from each state and territory jurisdiction.

Freshness

Updated quarterly; last updated 2026-05-18.

Geography

Queensland, Australia.