--- title: Locality boundaries, Queensland resource: https://publicdata.au/d/qld-locality-boundaries/ publisher: Department of Natural Resources and Mines, Manufacturing and Regional and Rural Development licence: CC BY 4.0 licence_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ version: 2026-10-03 rows: 3359 fields: 5 source: https://spatial-gis.information.qld.gov.au/arcgis/rest/services/Boundaries/AdministrativeBoundaries/MapServer/2 source_sha256: d5bb23ab65592c9f7bbf0b416f8e252ed3f3e189ca0b6a2c38cb08ea03958b65 language: en-AU operator: National Digital not_endorsed: true --- # Locality boundaries, Queensland The official boundary, name and code of every suburb and locality in Queensland, with its local government area. Published by Department of Natural Resources and Mines, Manufacturing and Regional and Rural Development under CC BY 4.0 and republished here in other formats, with cells typed and suppressed values made null. Department of Natural Resources and Mines, Manufacturing and Regional and Rural Development has not endorsed this site. Also called: Queensland suburb boundaries map, QLD locality boundaries shapefile, Official Queensland suburb names and boundaries. ## Download Latest version, redirects to `https://publicdata.au/d/qld-locality-boundaries/v/2026-10-03/`: - csv: https://publicdata.au/d/qld-locality-boundaries/latest/data.csv (192 KB) - xlsx: https://publicdata.au/d/qld-locality-boundaries/latest/data.xlsx (139 KB) - json: https://publicdata.au/d/qld-locality-boundaries/latest/data.json (386 KB) - geojson: https://publicdata.au/d/qld-locality-boundaries/latest/data.geojson (58 MB) - parquet: https://publicdata.au/d/qld-locality-boundaries/latest/data.parquet (21 MB) - sqlite: https://publicdata.au/d/qld-locality-boundaries/latest/data.sqlite (250 KB) - duckdb: https://publicdata.au/d/qld-locality-boundaries/latest/data.duckdb (200 KB) - gpkg: https://publicdata.au/d/qld-locality-boundaries/latest/data.gpkg (26 MB) - pmtiles: https://publicdata.au/d/qld-locality-boundaries/latest/data.pmtiles (5.8 MB) - ndjson: https://publicdata.au/d/qld-locality-boundaries/latest/data.ndjson (382 KB) - arrow: https://publicdata.au/d/qld-locality-boundaries/latest/data.arrow (87 KB) - csv.gz: https://publicdata.au/d/qld-locality-boundaries/latest/data.csv.gz (64 KB) Pinned version 2026-10-03: `https://publicdata.au/d/qld-locality-boundaries/v/2026-10-03/data.`. Dated versions never change. ## Query The query API returns only the rows you ask for, as JSON, NDJSON or CSV, from the same typed rows as the files. It needs no key. Rows: https://publicdata.au/api/v1/datasets/qld-locality-boundaries/rows. Counts and sums: https://publicdata.au/api/v1/datasets/qld-locality-boundaries/aggregate. - Rows: https://publicdata.au/api/v1/datasets/qld-locality-boundaries/rows?limit=5 - Aggregate: https://publicdata.au/api/v1/datasets/qld-locality-boundaries/aggregate?group=lga&metric=count Each filter is `field=operator.value` in the query string, and every filter must match. A number or date field compares as a number or date, and a text field compares as text. Values are case-sensitive except with `ilike`. Prefix `not.` to negate a filter, as `not.eq.value`. Operators: `eq.value`, `neq.value`, `gt.value`, `gte.value`, `lt.value`, `lte.value`, `like.*text*`, `ilike.*text*`, `in.(a,b,c)`, `is.null`. - `select`: Fields to return, comma-separated. Every field when absent. - `order`: `field.asc` or `field.desc`, comma-separated. The publisher's row order when absent. - `limit`: Rows per page, 1 to 10,000. 100 when absent. - `offset`: Rows to skip. The `next` URL in each answer sets it for you. - `group`: On `aggregate`, fields to group by, comma-separated. - `metric`: On `aggregate`, `count`, `sum.field`, `avg.field`, `min.field` or `max.field`, comma-separated. `count` when absent. - `format`: `json`, `ndjson` or `csv`. JSON carries the provenance header, and the others carry it in response headers. Without a version the API answers from the newest loaded version, and that answer changes when the publisher releases again. Put `versions//` before `rows` or `aggregate` for an answer that never changes. `/api/v1/datasets//versions` lists the loaded versions. The API allows 60 requests in 10 seconds from one address. Above that it answers 429 for 10 seconds with a `Retry-After` header, a `RateLimit-Policy` header and a JSON body that gives the limit. Every API answer carries the same `RateLimit-Policy`. A client should wait the `Retry-After` seconds, or read the files, which have no limit. OpenAPI for this dataset: https://publicdata.au/d/qld-locality-boundaries/openapi.json ## Explore Charts and dashboards in the browser: https://publicdata.au/d/qld-locality-boundaries/explore/. A dashboard can be shared as a link or embedded. ## Fields | field | type | publisher's header | note | |---|---|---|---| | `objectid` | integer | objectid | | | `locality` | string | locality | | | `loc_code` | string | loc_code | | | `lga` | string | lga | | | `ca_area_sqkm` | number | ca_area_sqkm | | Key: `loc_code`. ## Versions - 2026-10-03: 3359 rows, 5 fields, sha256 d5bb23ab6559. https://publicdata.au/d/qld-locality-boundaries/v/2026-10-03/ Machine-readable: https://publicdata.au/d/qld-locality-boundaries/versions.json, https://publicdata.au/d/qld-locality-boundaries/changes.json, https://publicdata.au/d/qld-locality-boundaries/datapackage.json, https://publicdata.au/d/qld-locality-boundaries/schema.json, https://publicdata.au/d/qld-locality-boundaries/history.tar.zst ## Same subject, other publishers - [Suburb and locality boundaries, South Australia](https://publicdata.au/d/sa-suburb-boundaries/) (SA) - [Suburb and locality boundaries, 2021, Australia](https://publicdata.au/d/abs-suburbs-localities-2021/) (Cth) - [Suburb and locality boundaries, New South Wales (Geoscape)](https://publicdata.au/d/au-localities-nsw/) (Cth) - [Suburb and locality boundaries, Victoria (Geoscape)](https://publicdata.au/d/au-localities-vic/) (Cth) - [Suburb and locality boundaries, South Australia (Geoscape)](https://publicdata.au/d/au-localities-sa/) (Cth) - [Suburb and locality boundaries, Western Australia (Geoscape)](https://publicdata.au/d/au-localities-wa/) (Cth) - [Suburb and locality boundaries, Tasmania (Geoscape)](https://publicdata.au/d/au-localities-tas/) (Cth) - [Suburb and locality boundaries, Northern Territory (Geoscape)](https://publicdata.au/d/au-localities-nt/) (Cth) - [Suburb and locality boundaries, Australian Capital Territory (Geoscape)](https://publicdata.au/d/au-localities-act/) (Cth) - [Suburb and locality boundaries, Other Territories (Geoscape)](https://publicdata.au/d/au-localities-ot/) (Cth) - [State electorate boundaries, 2025, Australia](https://publicdata.au/d/abs-state-electoral-divisions-2025/) (Cth) - [Commonwealth Heritage List places, boundaries, Australia](https://publicdata.au/d/au-commonwealth-heritage-list-places/) (Cth) ## Attribution and citation Department of Natural Resources and Mines, Manufacturing and Regional and Rural Development, Queensland Government, Locality boundaries - Queensland, sourced 3 October 2026, https://www.data.qld.gov.au/dataset/locality-boundaries-queensland, licensed under CC BY 4.0. The licence requires the publisher's attribution. We ask that you also name publicdata.au and link to the version you used. Plain text: Department of Natural Resources and Mines, Manufacturing and Regional and Rural Development, Queensland Government, Locality boundaries - Queensland, sourced 3 October 2026, https://www.data.qld.gov.au/dataset/locality-boundaries-queensland, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Serialised and versioned by National Digital at publicdata.au, https://publicdata.au/d/qld-locality-boundaries/v/2026-10-03/ Harvard: Department of Natural Resources and Mines, Manufacturing and Regional and Rural Development (2026) Locality boundaries, Queensland, version 2026-10-03 [data set], CC BY 4.0, sourced 3 October 2026. Serialised and versioned by National Digital at publicdata.au. Available at: https://publicdata.au/d/qld-locality-boundaries/v/2026-10-03/ Markdown: Data: [Locality boundaries, Queensland](https://www.data.qld.gov.au/dataset/locality-boundaries-queensland), Department of Natural Resources and Mines, Manufacturing and Regional and Rural Development, [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), sourced 3 October 2026. Files: [publicdata.au](https://publicdata.au/d/qld-locality-boundaries/v/2026-10-03/) by [National Digital](https://nationaldigital.com.au/). ## Questions ### How do I download Locality boundaries as a CSV file? Open https://publicdata.au/d/qld-locality-boundaries/latest/data.csv. It redirects to the newest dated version, which is https://publicdata.au/d/qld-locality-boundaries/v/2026-10-03/data.csv today. The same path serves Excel, JSON, GeoJSON, Parquet, SQLite, DuckDB, GeoPackage, PMTiles, NDJSON, Arrow. A dated URL never changes, so use it when the file must stay the same. ### Can I open Locality boundaries in Excel? Yes. https://publicdata.au/d/qld-locality-boundaries/v/2026-10-03/data.xlsx is a workbook with the 3,359 rows on a records sheet, the field list on a second sheet and the provenance on a third. The CSV also opens in Excel. https://publicdata.au/d/qld-locality-boundaries/v/2026-10-03/data.csv.gz is the CSV at about a tenth of the size. ### How often is Locality boundaries updated? Natural Resources and Mines releases it as localities change. This site checks the portal every week and adds a dated version when the file changes. ### Can I use Locality boundaries commercially? Yes. CC BY 4.0 allows commercial use, redistribution and derived works as long as the attribution is kept. The attribution string is in this page's side column and inside every file. ### Is this the official source for Locality boundaries? No. The publisher is Department of Natural Resources and Mines, Manufacturing and Regional and Rural Development, and its page is https://www.data.qld.gov.au/dataset/locality-boundaries-queensland. This site republishes the publisher's file without changing its content. The original sits beside every version as source.geojson with its SHA-256, so the two can be compared. ### What coordinate system does Locality boundaries use? The map service projects the boundaries to WGS84 (EPSG:4326) on request. They are moved to GDA2020 for publication. The GeoJSON file uses GDA2020 as well, which differs from the WGS84 GeoJSON expects by well under a metre. ### What is in each row? Each row is one bounded locality, which in a city is a suburb, with its official name, locality code, the local government area it is in, its area in square kilometres and its boundary as a polygon. ### How do these differ from the ABS suburbs and localities? These are the Queensland Government's official locality names and boundaries used for addressing, kept up to date as localities are named or changed. The ABS layer is a statistical approximation of them built for one census. ## What this site did to the data Cells were typed, headers were renamed to snake_case and the encoding was made UTF-8. Rows were left alone. Nothing is derived. The publisher's file is beside every version as `source.geojson`. ## Improve this dataset This page is built from [register/qld-locality-boundaries.yaml](https://github.com/National-Digital/publicdata.au/blob/main/register/qld-locality-boundaries.yaml) on GitHub, and a fix to it is welcome as a pull request. https://publicdata.au/contribute/ explains how.