Suburb and Locality Boundaries for Victoria, Australia

Geoscape Australia builds and maintains these digital suburb and locality boundaries using authoritative government cadastre data from each state and territory. The full Administrative Boundaries dataset comprises seven products, including Localities, LGAs, and Electoral Boundaries, and is updated quarterly. The data is released under a CC BY 4.0 license by the Commonwealth of Australia.

Use Cases

• Geospatial analysis and mapping based on official suburb and locality boundaries.
• Integrating administrative regions into business intelligence platforms based on the described legal identifiers.
• Supporting electoral or demographic studies using the described suite of boundary products like LGAs and ABS boundaries.

Strengths

• Derived from authoritative government cadastre data from each state and territory jurisdiction.
• Updated on a quarterly publication schedule.
• Available with feature coordinates referencing both GDA94 and GDA2020 datums.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

Geoscape Australia, using data from state and territory government jurisdictions.

Collection Method

Derived from authoritative government cadastre data.

Freshness

Updated quarterly; last update was 2026-05-18.

Geography

Victoria, Australia