ABS boundaries
liveThe boundaries of the Australian Statistical Geography Standard that every located dataset here is joined to: SA2s, council areas, suburbs, postcodes and state and federal electorates, as shapes in GDA2020 with vector tiles for maps.
Australian Bureau of Statistics releases these 6 tables as one dataset on its portal, so every table here shares the version date 2021-06-25. Each table has its own page with a format picker, a field list, a sample record and its version history.
Also called: ABS SA2 boundaries, CED boundaries, Commonwealth Electoral Divisions 2025 shapefile, LGA GeoJSON, LGA boundaries Australia, Local Government Areas 2025 shapefile, POA boundaries, Postal Areas 2021 shapefile, SA2 2021 digital boundary file, SA2 GeoJSON Australia, SAL boundaries, SED boundaries, State Electoral Divisions 2025 shapefile, Statistical Area Level 2 shapefile, Suburbs and Localities 2021 shapefile, council area boundaries, federal electorate boundaries, federal seats map data, postcode GeoJSON Australia, postcode boundaries Australia, state electorate boundaries, state seats map data, suburb GeoJSON Australia, suburb boundaries Australia.
| Table | Download latest | Rows | Fields |
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| Statistical Areas Level 2 (SA2) boundaries, 2021, AustraliaThe 2,454 Statistical Areas Level 2 of the ABS's Australian Statistical Geography Standard, Edition 3 (2021), with their SA3, SA4, capital city and state, as shapes in GDA2020. | 2,473 | 14 | |
| Local Government Area (council) boundaries, 2025, AustraliaThe 542 Local Government Areas of Australia and its six unincorporated areas as the ABS approximated them for 2025, one shape each with its state, in GDA2020. | 567 | 5 | |
| Suburb and locality boundaries, 2021, AustraliaThe 15,334 suburbs and localities of Australia as the ABS drew them for the 2021 Census, one shape each with its state, in GDA2020. | 15,353 | 6 | |
| Postcode (postal area) boundaries, 2021, AustraliaThe 2,641 postal areas of Australia, the ABS's census approximation of postcodes for 2021, one shape each, in GDA2020. | 2,644 | 4 | |
| State electorate boundaries, 2025, AustraliaThe 433 state and territory electoral areas as the ABS built them from mesh blocks for 2025, one shape each with its state, in GDA2020. | 452 | 5 | |
| Federal electorate boundaries, 2025, AustraliaThe 150 Commonwealth electoral divisions as the ABS built them from mesh blocks for 2025, one shape each with its state, in GDA2020. | 169 | 5 |
What this site did to the data. Cells were typed, headers were renamed and the encoding was made UTF-8. Rows were left alone. The publisher's file sits beside every version so the change can be checked.