An amount the department spent on maintenance or modifications to its social housing in one suburb and postcode, for one property type, in one financial year. Each row also names the council area and the state and federal electorates.

Which year does a version cover?

The publisher adds one file for each financial year, and this entry follows the newest. The file holds no year column, so the year is the one named in the file's title on the portal. Each year is kept here as its own version.

Why do some suburbs have two rows for the same property type?

The file gives some suburb, property type and category combinations more than once with different amounts, and does not say why. The rows are kept as published, so add them to get a total.

Datasets / Queensland / Housing and Public Works / Social housing data from Queensland

Social housing maintenance and modification spending, Queensland

Name: Social housing maintenance and modification spending, Queensland
Creator: Department of Housing and Public Works
Published: 2025-12-17
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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Publisher Department of Housing and Public WorksUpdated annuallyLicence CC BY 4.0Latest 2025-12-17Rows 5,387Fields 8

Spending on maintenance and modifications of government owned social housing in Queensland for one financial year, one row per suburb, postcode, property type and category, with the total invoice cost in dollars and the council area, state electorate and federal electorate. The publisher's file opens with a line giving the year's total, which is left out here.

Also called: Social housing property management, government owned residential assets, Queensland public housing maintenance expenditure, Queensland public housing modification costs by suburb.

Part of Social housing data from Queensland, 3 tables the publisher releases together: Social housing register, Queensland, Public housing dwellings, Queensland.

Before you use it

What is in each row?: An amount the department spent on maintenance or modifications to its social housing in one suburb and postcode, for one property type, in one financial year. Each row also names the council area and the state and federal electorates.
Which year does a version cover?: The publisher adds one file for each financial year, and this entry follows the newest. The file holds no year column, so the year is the one named in the file's title on the portal. Each year is kept here as its own version.
Why do some suburbs have two rows for the same property type?: The file gives some suburb, property type and category combinations more than once with different amounts, and does not say why. The rows are kept as published, so add them to get a total.

Made for agents

Connect your AI agent

Any agent that connects to publicdata.au/mcp can find this dataset, read its 8 fields, count and filter across all 5,387 rows and diff its versions. Every answer names the version and carries Housing and Public Works's attribution. No key.

Then ask it: What does Social housing maintenance and modification spending, Queensland hold, and what changed in the newest version?

claude mcp add --transport http publicdata https://publicdata.au/mcp

One command. No key, no account, no sign-up.

https://publicdata.au/mcp

Streamable HTTP. Cursor, VS Code or any client that connects to a remote MCP server.

Using https://publicdata.au/llms.txt, how many people died on Queensland roads in 2025, by month?

For an assistant that reads the web and has no connector.

ExploreChart every row in your browser

A dashboard over every row. Click to filter, add panels, share a link or embed a frame.

Query APIFilter and count from a URL

aggregate?group=local_government_authority&metric=sum.total_invoice_cost

Spending ($) by council area: 92,960,437 Brisbane, 41,460,983 Torres Strait Island, 31,876,549 Logan, 26,690,476 Moreton Bay.

Download it as Excel, CSV, JSON and 6 more formats

Pick a format and a version. Excel is picked first because it opens in the tools most offices have. The URL is yours to keep. A dated version never changes.

Format

Version "Latest" redirects to the newest version and will change when the publisher releases again. A dated version never changes.

https://publicdata.au/d/qld-social-housing-maintenance/latest/data.xlsx

Download

In your own tools

Use it in Excel, R, Python and more

Excel and Power BI read the CSV from its address and refresh from it. The R and Python packages take any dataset on this site by its slug, so a new dataset needs no new release. The DuckDB file attaches read-only over HTTPS, and a query reads only the blocks it touches.

The dated URL in the code never changes. https://publicdata.au/d/qld-social-housing-maintenance/latest/ redirects to the newest version.

https://publicdata.au/d/qld-social-housing-maintenance/latest/data.csv

In Excel choose Data, then From Web, and paste this address. Excel keeps it, so Refresh All reads the newest version. A sheet holds about a million rows; past that, load the query to the Data Model.

https://publicdata.au/d/qld-social-housing-maintenance/latest/data.csv

In Power BI Desktop choose Get data, then Web, paste this address and choose Anonymous when asked how to sign in. A scheduled refresh reads the same address, so the report follows each new version.

library(publicdataau)
df <- pd_read("qld-social-housing-maintenance")
pd_attribution(df)

install.packages("publicdataau"). pd_read() fetches the version's Parquet file; pd_rows() and pd_aggregate() ask the query API instead, and pd_connect() attaches the DuckDB file.

import publicdata_au as pd_au
df = pd_au.read("qld-social-housing-maintenance")
df.attrs["publicdata"]["attribution"]

pip install "publicdata-au[pandas]". read() fetches the version's Parquet file; rows() and aggregate() ask the query API, and connect() attaches the DuckDB file.

INSTALL httpfs; LOAD httpfs;
ATTACH 'https://publicdata.au/d/qld-social-housing-maintenance/v/2025-12-17/data.duckdb' AS qld_social_housing_maintenance (READ_ONLY);
SELECT local_government_authority, count(*) FROM qld_social_housing_maintenance.records GROUP BY 1 ORDER BY 2 DESC;

The DuckDB file attaches read-only over HTTPS and only the blocks a query touches are read. Parquet works the same way: FROM read_parquet(url).

const res = await fetch("https://publicdata.au/api/v1/datasets/qld-social-housing-maintenance/aggregate?group=local_government_authority&metric=sum.total_invoice_cost");
const { rows, publicdata } = await res.json();
console.log(rows, publicdata.attribution);

The query API answers a page on any site as well as Node, with no key. It returns the rows and the attribution the licence asks for.

What is in it

Column names are made snake_case and the publisher's original header is kept beside each one. Blank cells are null. Nothing is added, removed, ranked or summarised.

Field	Type	Publisher's header	Note
suburb	string	Suburb
postcode	string	Postcode
total_invoice_cost	number	Total Invoice Cost
property_type	string	Property Type
local_government_authority	string	Local Government Authority
state_electorate	string	State Electorate
federal_electorate	string	Federal Electorate
category	string	Category	Maintenance or Modifications.

Download this table as a data dictionary (Excel), or read it as a Frictionless Table Schema at schema.json.

A sample of 10 rows

From the latest version, each council area in turn, then in the publisher's order, with every field. A blank cell is shown as null.

suburb	postcode	total_invoice_cost	property_type	local_government_authority	state_electorate	federal_electorate	category
ACACIA RIDGE	4110	186131.64	Apartment	Brisbane	Algester	Moreton	Maintenance
AEROGLEN	4870	3775.8	Detached House	Cairns	Cairns	Leichhardt	Maintenance
AITKENVALE	4814	188888.49	Apartment	Townsville	Mundingburra	Herbert	Maintenance
ALBANY CREEK	4035	104636.59	Detached House	Moreton Bay	Everton	Dickson	Maintenance
ALEXANDRA HEADLAND	4572	13665.33	Apartment	Sunshine Coast	Maroochydore	Fisher	Maintenance
ALEXANDRA HILLS	4161	22876.1	Apartment	Redland	Capalaba	Bowman	Maintenance
ALLENSTOWN	4700	288987.76	Apartment	Rockhampton	Rockhampton	Capricornia	Maintenance
ALLORA	4362	4105.3	Detached House	Southern Downs	Southern Downs	Maranoa	Maintenance
ALPHA	4724	28459.77	Detached House	Barcaldine	Gregory	Maranoa	Maintenance
ANDERGROVE	4740	7246.93	Building	Mackay	Mackay	Dawson	Maintenance

The first row as JSON

As it appears in data.json.

GET https://publicdata.au/d/qld-social-housing-maintenance/latest/data.json
{
  "suburb": "ACACIA RIDGE",
  "postcode": "4110",
  "total_invoice_cost": 186131.64,
  "property_type": "Apartment",
  "local_government_authority": "Brisbane",
  "state_electorate": "Algester",
  "federal_electorate": "Moreton",
  "category": "Maintenance"
}

Query it without downloading

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. Build a query here and run it, then copy the URL or the code into your own work.

Try rows or aggregate for this dataset. The query builder needs JavaScript.

How filters work

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.

Operator	What it matches
eq.value	Equal to the value.
neq.value	Not equal to the value. A blank cell does not match.
gt.value	Greater than the value.
gte.value	Greater than or equal to the value.
lt.value	Less than the value.
lte.value	Less than or equal to the value.
like.text	Matches a pattern where * stands for any run of characters. Case-sensitive.
ilike.text	The same as like, ignoring case.
in.(a,b,c)	Equal to any value in the list. A value cannot contain a comma.
is.null	Blank in the source, or suppressed by the publisher.

Parameter	What it does
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/<date>/ before rows or aggregate for an answer that never changes. /api/v1/datasets/<slug>/versions lists the loaded versions. The 1 newest version is loaded; versions lists them.

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.json describes this dataset's query paths for client generators and agents.

https://publicdata.au/mcp is a remote MCP server over Streamable HTTP with the same tools, defined in the same place, so a tool added to the pages is added here too. It needs no key and no account. The row tools are held to the query API's limit of 60 queries in 10 seconds from one address, and each call is two queries because it also counts the matching rows. Add it to Claude Code with claude mcp add --transport http publicdata https://publicdata.au/mcp, add the URL in Claude as a custom connector, or give it to any client that connects to remote MCP servers. Each queryable dataset is also a resource at https://publicdata.au/d/<slug>/fields.json, which lists its fields with their types, the publisher's descriptions, their ranges and the values they hold, so an agent can read a dataset's shape before it writes a query.

By council area

One page for each council area, with its own count, chart and files. The rows are the same rows as this table.

What changed

One version for every release the publisher has made since this site started following the dataset. The date is the day the file changed on the portal.

2025-12-17
5,387 rows8 fieldsutf-8-sig41f32ec0ae64

versions.json · changes.json · history.tar.zst (69 KB, every version's Parquet and manifest)

Questions

How do I download Social housing maintenance and modification spending as a CSV file?

Open https://publicdata.au/d/qld-social-housing-maintenance/latest/data.csv. It redirects to the newest dated version, which is https://publicdata.au/d/qld-social-housing-maintenance/v/2025-12-17/data.csv today. The same path serves Excel, JSON, Parquet, SQLite, DuckDB, NDJSON, Arrow. A dated URL never changes, so use it when the file must stay the same.

Can I open Social housing maintenance and modification spending in Excel?

Yes. https://publicdata.au/d/qld-social-housing-maintenance/v/2025-12-17/data.xlsx is a workbook with the 5,387 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-social-housing-maintenance/v/2025-12-17/data.csv.gz is the CSV at about a tenth of the size.

How often is Social housing maintenance and modification spending updated?

Housing and Public Works releases it annually. This site checks the portal every week and adds a dated version when the file changes.

Can I use Social housing maintenance and modification spending 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 Social housing maintenance and modification spending?

No. The publisher is Department of Housing and Public Works, and its page is https://www.data.qld.gov.au/dataset/property-management-government-owned-assets. This site republishes the publisher's file without changing its content. The original sits beside every version as source.csv with its SHA-256, so the two can be compared.

How do I get only the rows for one local government authority?

Every version has one JSON file per value of local_government_authority, 77 files in the current version, listed with row counts at https://publicdata.au/d/qld-social-housing-maintenance/v/2025-12-17/by/local_government_authority/index.json. For example https://publicdata.au/d/qld-social-housing-maintenance/v/2025-12-17/by/local_government_authority/brisbane.json holds the 1,095 rows where local_government_authority is Brisbane.

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 as source.csv so the change can be checked.

Social housing data from Queensland is 3 tables here, and each takes its version date from its own file.

Attribution and citation

The licence requires the publisher's attribution. We ask that you also name publicdata.au and link to the version you used.

Department of Housing and Public Works, Queensland Government, Social housing property management, government owned residential assets, sourced 3 October 2026, https://www.data.qld.gov.au/dataset/property-management-government-owned-assets, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Serialised and versioned by National Digital at publicdata.au, https://publicdata.au/d/qld-social-housing-maintenance/v/2025-12-17/

The attribution alone is inside every file. Harvard is the author-date form a report or a brief asks for. Paste the HTML on a web page so the links carry.

Licence record

Department of Housing and Public Works states the licence, CC BY 4.0, on its own page, which was read and recorded here on 1 October 2026.

Every fetch reads the licence again and stops when it has changed. The fetch that made version 2025-12-17 read it from www.data.qld.gov.au on 3 October 2026.

Also published on

Hugging Faceload_dataset("National-Digital/qld-social-housing-maintenance")
Kagglewith a starter notebook
ZenodoDOI 10.5281/zenodo.23122761

Each copy carries the same attribution and links back to this page.

For agents and tools

datapackage.jsonFrictionless data package pointing at the latest version
schema.jsonTable Schema for every field
schema.xlsxthe same field list as an Excel data dictionary
versions.jsonevery version with date, rows, fields and hash
changes.jsondiff for every consecutive pair
manifest.jsonwhere the bytes came from and when
Query APIfiltered rows and counts without a download
openapi.jsonOpenAPI 3.1 for this dataset's query paths
explore/charts and dashboards in the browser, shareable and embeddable
index.mdthis page as Markdown

This page carries a schema.org Dataset record and is listed in /.well-known/ard.json and /catalog.json.

Source

Department of Housing and Public Works publishes this table on www.data.qld.gov.au. Questions about the content go to the publisher. Questions about the files here go to corrections.

Fetched 3 October 2026. Source SHA-256 41f32ec0ae643858…

Improve this dataset

This page is built from register/qld-social-housing-maintenance.yaml on GitHub. Anyone can propose a fix to it, such as a clearer description or a field the publisher renamed, as a pull request.

Report a file that differs from the publisher's · How to contribute