Working Holiday Maker Visa Grants by Citizenship, Age, and Gender

Australian Department of Home Affairs publishes quarterly statistics on visa grants for the Working Holiday (subclass 417) and Work and Holiday (subclass 462) programs. The data includes counts by financial year, quarter, gender, age, and citizenship country of the visa holder. The dataset was republished in 2024 following a privacy review and is updated quarterly.

Use Cases

• Analyzing seasonal trends in visa grants based on financial year and quarter dimensions
• Profiling demographic characteristics of visa holders based on gender and age data
• Mapping the geographic origins of participants based on citizenship country
• Comparing participation volumes between the two visa subclasses (417 and 462)

Strengths

• Data is published quarterly, suggesting regular updates
• Includes multiple demographic dimensions: gender, age, and citizenship
• Released under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license
• Dataset has undergone a documented privacy and compliance review

Limitations

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

Provenance

Source

Department of Home Affairs, Australia

Collection Method

Administrative records of visa grants

Time Range

Current and previous financial years

Freshness

Quarterly updates; last metadata update was 2026-04-23.

Geography

Australia (visa grants for entry)