Western Australia Local Government Areas with Legal Identifiers

Geoscape Australia builds and maintains these digital Local Government Area boundaries using authoritative cadastre data from each Australian state and territory. The dataset is published quarterly under a CC BY 4.0 license and offers coordinate references for both GDA94 and GDA2020 datums. A May 2026 release contained no updates to the boundaries.

Use Cases

• Map service area analysis based on official Local Government Area boundaries.
• Integrate administrative boundaries into spatial models based on cadastre-derived geometry.
• Perform jurisdictional analysis based on the quarterly updated legal identifiers for LGAs.

Strengths

• Derived from authoritative government cadastre data from each Australian jurisdiction.
• Updated on a quarterly publication schedule, with the last recorded update on 2026-05-18.
• Available under a permissive CC BY 4.0 license negotiated by the Australian Government.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• The description does not specify the exact temporal coverage of the boundary data.

Provenance

Source

Geoscape Australia, using cadastre data from Australian state and territory jurisdictions.

Collection Method

Derived from authoritative government cadastre data.

Freshness

Updated quarterly; last updated 2026-05-18.

Geography

Australia, specifically Western Australia Local Government Areas.