NSW Suburb Boundaries and Labels with Postcodes

Gazetted suburb and locality boundaries for New South Wales, Australia, maintained by the Geographical Names Board. The dataset includes postcodes matched from Australia Post and is updated daily. It is part of the NSW Administrative Boundaries Theme within the Foundation Spatial Data Framework.

Use Cases

• Map suburb-level demographic analysis based on gazetted boundaries.
• Validate address and postcode information based on the Australia Post-sourced postcodes.
• Align spatial data with land parcel and property datasets based on the described positional relationship.

Strengths

• Updated daily, indicating high data currency.
• Maintains positional alignment with authoritative Lot and Property datasets.
• Sourced from the official Geographical Names Board of NSW.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Accuracy varies with map scale, ranging from 0.25m to 50m for 90% of well-defined points.

Provenance

Source

Spatial Services (Department of Customer Service NSW)

Collection Method

Digitized from best available cadastral mapping, with postcodes sourced from Australia Post.

Freshness

Daily update frequency.

Geography

State of New South Wales, Australia