Rural Address Boundary for Wangaratta Municipality

A single polygon defines the official boundary for rural addressing within the Rural City of Wangaratta. The dataset is published and maintained by the Wangaratta Rural City Council, with a recent update in April 2026. It serves to classify all numbered property addresses inside the polygon as rural.

Use Cases

• Classify property addresses as rural or urban based on their location relative to the defined polygon boundary.
• Integrate the boundary polygon with other council datasets to analyze service coverage for rural versus urban areas.
• Use the polygon in spatial joins to filter or tag property records from other sources by their rural/urban status.

Strengths

• Data is provided in multiple standard geospatial formats including GeoJSON and Shapefile for interoperability.
• Published under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license, allowing for broad reuse with attribution.
• Maintained by the authoritative local government body (Wangaratta Rural City Council).

Limitations

• The dataset consists of a single boundary polygon, offering no internal granularity or attribute data for individual addresses.
• No metadata is provided on the polygon's creation methodology, precision, or potential positional accuracy.
• The scope is limited to a single municipality, restricting broader regional or national analysis.

Provenance

Source

Wangaratta Rural City Council

Freshness

Last updated in April 2026, indicating recent maintenance.

Geography

Rural City of Wangaratta, Victoria, Australia