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    Data Sources

    Every figure on this site traces back to a government or openly-licensed source. Below is the complete list of datasets we use, where they come from, and when they were last updated.

    Most are ingested by an automated pipeline on a schedule. A few — mainly the smaller states' stamp duty schedules — have no machine-readable feed, so we maintain them by hand and check them against the publisher. Those are marked By hand, and where nobody has yet verified one against its publisher it says so rather than leaving you to assume.

    ABS Census 2021 (POA)

    ABS Census 2021 at Postal Area level. Populates median_household_income, median_age.

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    ABS SEIFA 2021 (SAL)

    ABS IRSD at Suburb and Locality level. Populates school_avg_score.

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    ACT Revenue Office — Duty Rates

    By hand

    ACT duty rate brackets

    Licence: CC BY 4.0Maintained by hand — no automated feedChecked against the publisher:
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    ATO — Individual Income Tax Rates

    Australian income tax brackets — updated 1 July each year

    Licence: CC BY 4.0Fetched annualLast fetched:
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    Housing Australia — First Home Guarantee

    By hand

    FHBG, RFHBG, Family Home Guarantee scheme details

    Licence: CC BY 4.0Maintained by hand — no automated feedChecked against the publisher:
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    NSW BOCSAR Suburb Crime Data

    BOCSAR suburb-level criminal incidents. Populates crime_index for NSW suburbs.

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    NSW Rental Bond Board — Median Rents

    NSW Fair Trading Rental Bond Board — monthly lodgement microdata, aggregated to median weekly rent per postcode × dwelling × bedrooms (min 5 observations), fanned out to suburbs.

    Licence: CC BY 4.0Fetched monthlyLast fetched:
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    NT Revenue — Stamp Duty

    By hand

    NT stamp duty rates

    Licence: CC BY 4.0Maintained by hand — no automated feedNot yet independently verified
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    OpenStreetMap Overpass API

    OSM nodes for hospitals, stations, schools across Australia. Populates proximity fields.

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    Queensland Revenue Office — Duty Rates

    QLD transfer duty rate brackets

    Licence: CC BY 4.0Fetched monthlyLast fetched:
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    Queensland RTA — Median Rents

    RTA quarterly median weekly rents by suburb x dwelling x bedrooms, from new bond lodgements.

    Licence: CC BY 4.0Fetched quarterlyLast fetched:
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    RBA — Cash Rate Target

    RBA official cash rate decisions

    Licence: CC BY 4.0Fetched dailyLast fetched:
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    Revenue NSW — Transfer Duty Rates

    NSW transfer (stamp) duty rate brackets for standard, FHB, and off-the-plan buyers

    Licence: CC BY 4.0Fetched monthlyLast fetched:
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    Revenue Tasmania — Duty Rates

    By hand

    TAS duty rate brackets

    Licence: CC BY 4.0Maintained by hand — no automated feedChecked against the publisher:
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    Revenue WA — Stamp Duty Rates

    By hand

    WA transfer duty rate brackets

    Licence: CC BY 4.0Maintained by hand — no automated feedChecked against the publisher:
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    RevenueSA — Stamp Duty Rates

    By hand

    SA stamp duty rate brackets

    Licence: CC BY 4.0Maintained by hand — no automated feedChecked against the publisher:
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    SA Dept for Housing and Urban Development — Metropolitan Median House Sales

    Median house sale price and sale count per metropolitan Adelaide suburb. Metro only — regional SA is not covered. Medians from small sale counts are volatile; the pipeline pools four quarters and suppresses below 30 pooled sales with no quarter under 5.

    Licence: CC-BY 4.0Fetched quarterlyLast fetched:
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    State Revenue Office Victoria — Duty Rates

    VIC land transfer duty rate brackets

    Licence: CC BY 4.0Fetched monthlyLast fetched:
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    VIC Dept of Transport and Planning — Median House by Suburb

    Median house sale price per Victorian suburb, from the Victorian Property Sales Report. Each figure is the median of the suburb's five most recent quarterly medians; suppressed below 30 annual sales with no quarter under 5.

    Licence: CC-BY 4.0Fetched quarterlyLast fetched:
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    Victoria DFFH — Median Rents

    DFFH Rental Report — moving-annual median weekly rents by suburb area x dwelling x bedrooms, from RTBA bond data.

    Licence: CC BY 4.0Fetched quarterlyLast fetched:
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    We do not use data from realestate.com.au, Domain, CoreLogic, or any commercial real estate platform. All sources are government or openly-licensed datasets.