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title: Building approvals by Local Government Area, monthly, 2025-26, Australia, version 2026-10-20
resource: https://publicdata.au/d/au-building-approvals-by-lga-2025-26/v/2026-10-20/
dataset: https://publicdata.au/d/au-building-approvals-by-lga-2025-26/
rows: 300240
source_sha256: 5886c4e1e724d1ef6eeab89021ea762b7d4b90a9f48eeb23a37fa74cfd71664d
---

# Building approvals by Local Government Area, monthly, 2025-26, Australia, version 2026-10-20

300240 rows, 14 fields, fetched 19 October 2026. This version keeps its content. Its files change only for the reasons the terms give (https://publicdata.au/terms/), and each change is recorded in its notes.

## About this version

The publisher's server states no change date, so this version is dated by the fetch.

- data.csv: https://publicdata.au/d/au-building-approvals-by-lga-2025-26/v/2026-10-20/data.csv (52 MB)
- data.csv-metadata.json: https://publicdata.au/d/au-building-approvals-by-lga-2025-26/v/2026-10-20/data.csv-metadata.json (3.8 KB)
- data.csv.gz: https://publicdata.au/d/au-building-approvals-by-lga-2025-26/v/2026-10-20/data.csv.gz (2.4 MB)
- data.duckdb: https://publicdata.au/d/au-building-approvals-by-lga-2025-26/v/2026-10-20/data.duckdb
- data.ndjson: https://publicdata.au/d/au-building-approvals-by-lga-2025-26/v/2026-10-20/data.ndjson (112 MB)
- data.parquet: https://publicdata.au/d/au-building-approvals-by-lga-2025-26/v/2026-10-20/data.parquet (508 KB)
- data.sqlite: https://publicdata.au/d/au-building-approvals-by-lga-2025-26/v/2026-10-20/data.sqlite (59 MB)
- manifest.json: https://publicdata.au/d/au-building-approvals-by-lga-2025-26/v/2026-10-20/manifest.json (4.4 KB)
- schema.json: https://publicdata.au/d/au-building-approvals-by-lga-2025-26/v/2026-10-20/schema.json (1.7 KB)
- schema.sql: https://publicdata.au/d/au-building-approvals-by-lga-2025-26/v/2026-10-20/schema.sql (1.3 KB)
- source.csv: https://publicdata.au/d/au-building-approvals-by-lga-2025-26/v/2026-10-20/source.csv (94 MB)

Excel is not offered because the table is 51.9 MB as CSV, over the 50 MB limit for Excel.

JSON is not offered because the table is 112.1 MB as NDJSON, over the 50 MB limit for JSON.

SHA-256 of every file, under the names they download as: https://publicdata.au/d/au-building-approvals-by-lga-2025-26/v/2026-10-20/SHA256SUMS

## Attribution

Australian Bureau of Statistics, Building Approvals by Local Government Area (LGA 2025) (BA_LGA2025), ABS Data Explorer, sourced 19 October 2026, https://dataexplorer.abs.gov.au/vis?df[ds]=ABS_ABS_TOPICS&df[id]=BA_LGA2025&df[ag]=ABS&df[vs]=1.0.0, licensed under CC BY 4.0.