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title: Social housing maintenance and modification spending, Queensland
resource: https://publicdata.au/d/qld-social-housing-maintenance/
publisher: Department of Housing and Public Works
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version: 2025-12-17
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source: https://www.data.qld.gov.au/dataset/fdea78e6-5371-4bad-bae3-91b112ad1a9b/resource/7c419dab-ea8a-4cf7-b4d6-826255aec01d/download/open-data-2024-25-final.csv
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language: en-AU
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# Social housing maintenance and modification spending, Queensland

What the Queensland Government spent maintaining and modifying its social housing in each suburb, by property type, in the latest financial year.

Published by Department of Housing and Public Works under CC BY 4.0 and republished here in other formats, with cells typed and suppressed values made null. Department of Housing and Public Works has not endorsed this site.

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

## Download

Latest version, redirects to `https://publicdata.au/d/qld-social-housing-maintenance/v/2025-12-17/`:

- csv: https://publicdata.au/d/qld-social-housing-maintenance/latest/data.csv (483 KB)
- xlsx: https://publicdata.au/d/qld-social-housing-maintenance/latest/data.xlsx (248 KB)
- json: https://publicdata.au/d/qld-social-housing-maintenance/latest/data.json (1.2 MB)
- parquet: https://publicdata.au/d/qld-social-housing-maintenance/latest/data.parquet (71 KB)
- sqlite: https://publicdata.au/d/qld-social-housing-maintenance/latest/data.sqlite (471 KB)
- duckdb: https://publicdata.au/d/qld-social-housing-maintenance/latest/data.duckdb (200 KB)
- ndjson: https://publicdata.au/d/qld-social-housing-maintenance/latest/data.ndjson (1.2 MB)
- arrow: https://publicdata.au/d/qld-social-housing-maintenance/latest/data.arrow (159 KB)
- csv.gz: https://publicdata.au/d/qld-social-housing-maintenance/latest/data.csv.gz (72 KB)

Pinned version 2025-12-17: `https://publicdata.au/d/qld-social-housing-maintenance/v/2025-12-17/data.<format>`. 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-social-housing-maintenance/rows. Counts and sums: https://publicdata.au/api/v1/datasets/qld-social-housing-maintenance/aggregate.

- Rows: https://publicdata.au/api/v1/datasets/qld-social-housing-maintenance/rows?limit=5
- Aggregate: https://publicdata.au/api/v1/datasets/qld-social-housing-maintenance/aggregate?group=local_government_authority&metric=sum.total_invoice_cost

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/<date>/` before `rows` or `aggregate` for an answer that never changes. `/api/v1/datasets/<slug>/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-social-housing-maintenance/openapi.json

## Explore

Charts and dashboards in the browser: https://publicdata.au/d/qld-social-housing-maintenance/explore/. A dashboard can be shared as a link or embedded.

## Smaller files

- by `local_government_authority`: https://publicdata.au/d/qld-social-housing-maintenance/v/2025-12-17/by/local_government_authority/index.json lists 77 files

## Fields

| 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. |

## Versions

- 2025-12-17: 5387 rows, 8 fields, sha256 41f32ec0ae64. https://publicdata.au/d/qld-social-housing-maintenance/v/2025-12-17/

Machine-readable: https://publicdata.au/d/qld-social-housing-maintenance/versions.json, https://publicdata.au/d/qld-social-housing-maintenance/changes.json, https://publicdata.au/d/qld-social-housing-maintenance/datapackage.json, https://publicdata.au/d/qld-social-housing-maintenance/schema.json, https://publicdata.au/d/qld-social-housing-maintenance/history.tar.zst

## Part of Social housing data from Queensland

- [Social housing register, Queensland](https://publicdata.au/d/qld-social-housing-register/)
- [Public housing dwellings, Queensland](https://publicdata.au/d/qld-public-housing-dwellings/)

## Same subject, other publishers

- [Average age of public housing dwellings by suburb and bedrooms, Western Australia](https://publicdata.au/d/wa-public-housing-dwelling-age-by-suburb/) (WA)
- [Median house sale prices by suburb, metropolitan Adelaide](https://publicdata.au/d/sa-metro-median-house-prices/) (SA)
- [Public housing dwellings by council area, South Australia](https://publicdata.au/d/sa-public-housing-dwellings/) (SA)
- [Public housing households by council area, South Australia](https://publicdata.au/d/sa-public-housing-households/) (SA)
- [New households housed in public housing by council area, South Australia](https://publicdata.au/d/sa-public-housing-new-households/) (SA)
- [Median house prices by suburb, Victoria](https://publicdata.au/d/vic-median-house-prices-by-suburb/) (Vic)
- [Median unit prices by suburb, Victoria](https://publicdata.au/d/vic-median-unit-prices-by-suburb/) (Vic)
- [Median vacant land prices by suburb, Victoria](https://publicdata.au/d/vic-median-vacant-land-prices-by-suburb/) (Vic)
- [Dwelling completions per 1,000 people, New South Wales](https://publicdata.au/d/nsw-dwelling-completions/) (NSW)
- [Median weekly rents by suburb and dwelling type, Queensland](https://publicdata.au/d/qld-median-rents-by-suburb/) (Qld)
- [Median weekly rents and bonds lodged by suburb, South Australia](https://publicdata.au/d/sa-private-rents-by-suburb/) (SA)
- [Median weekly rents by suburb and property type, Victoria](https://publicdata.au/d/vic-rents-by-suburb/) (Vic)

## By council area

- [Aurukun](https://publicdata.au/d/qld-social-housing-maintenance/in/aurukun/): 8 rows
- [Balonne](https://publicdata.au/d/qld-social-housing-maintenance/in/balonne/): 16 rows
- [Banana](https://publicdata.au/d/qld-social-housing-maintenance/in/banana/): 21 rows
- [Barcaldine](https://publicdata.au/d/qld-social-housing-maintenance/in/barcaldine/): 14 rows
- [Barcoo](https://publicdata.au/d/qld-social-housing-maintenance/in/barcoo/): 1 rows
- [Blackall Tambo](https://publicdata.au/d/qld-social-housing-maintenance/in/blackall-tambo/): 11 rows
- [Boulia](https://publicdata.au/d/qld-social-housing-maintenance/in/boulia/): 9 rows
- [Brisbane](https://publicdata.au/d/qld-social-housing-maintenance/in/brisbane/): 1,095 rows
- [Bundaberg](https://publicdata.au/d/qld-social-housing-maintenance/in/bundaberg/): 158 rows
- [Burdekin](https://publicdata.au/d/qld-social-housing-maintenance/in/burdekin/): 18 rows
- [Burke](https://publicdata.au/d/qld-social-housing-maintenance/in/burke/): 4 rows
- [Cairns](https://publicdata.au/d/qld-social-housing-maintenance/in/cairns/): 258 rows
- [Carpentaria](https://publicdata.au/d/qld-social-housing-maintenance/in/carpentaria/): 13 rows
- [Cassowary Coast](https://publicdata.au/d/qld-social-housing-maintenance/in/cassowary-coast/): 75 rows
- [Central Highlands](https://publicdata.au/d/qld-social-housing-maintenance/in/central-highlands/): 29 rows
- [Charters Towers](https://publicdata.au/d/qld-social-housing-maintenance/in/charters-towers/): 30 rows
- [Cherbourg](https://publicdata.au/d/qld-social-housing-maintenance/in/cherbourg/): 15 rows
- [Cloncurry](https://publicdata.au/d/qld-social-housing-maintenance/in/cloncurry/): 17 rows
- [Cook](https://publicdata.au/d/qld-social-housing-maintenance/in/cook/): 26 rows
- [Croydon](https://publicdata.au/d/qld-social-housing-maintenance/in/croydon/): 5 rows
- [Diamantina](https://publicdata.au/d/qld-social-housing-maintenance/in/diamantina/): 5 rows
- [Doomadgee](https://publicdata.au/d/qld-social-housing-maintenance/in/doomadgee/): 10 rows
- [Douglas](https://publicdata.au/d/qld-social-housing-maintenance/in/douglas/): 26 rows
- [Etheridge](https://publicdata.au/d/qld-social-housing-maintenance/in/etheridge/): 5 rows
- [Flinders](https://publicdata.au/d/qld-social-housing-maintenance/in/flinders/): 6 rows
- [Fraser Coast](https://publicdata.au/d/qld-social-housing-maintenance/in/fraser-coast/): 105 rows
- [Gladstone](https://publicdata.au/d/qld-social-housing-maintenance/in/gladstone/): 82 rows
- [Gold Coast](https://publicdata.au/d/qld-social-housing-maintenance/in/gold-coast/): 339 rows
- [Goondiwindi](https://publicdata.au/d/qld-social-housing-maintenance/in/goondiwindi/): 16 rows
- [Gympie](https://publicdata.au/d/qld-social-housing-maintenance/in/gympie/): 42 rows
- [Hinchinbrook](https://publicdata.au/d/qld-social-housing-maintenance/in/hinchinbrook/): 18 rows
- [Hope Vale](https://publicdata.au/d/qld-social-housing-maintenance/in/hope-vale/): 11 rows
- [Ipswich](https://publicdata.au/d/qld-social-housing-maintenance/in/ipswich/): 226 rows
- [Isaac](https://publicdata.au/d/qld-social-housing-maintenance/in/isaac/): 23 rows
- [Kowanyama](https://publicdata.au/d/qld-social-housing-maintenance/in/kowanyama/): 12 rows
- [Livingstone](https://publicdata.au/d/qld-social-housing-maintenance/in/livingstone/): 37 rows
- [Lockhart River](https://publicdata.au/d/qld-social-housing-maintenance/in/lockhart-river/): 10 rows
- [Lockyer Valley](https://publicdata.au/d/qld-social-housing-maintenance/in/lockyer-valley/): 23 rows
- [Logan](https://publicdata.au/d/qld-social-housing-maintenance/in/logan/): 267 rows
- [Longreach](https://publicdata.au/d/qld-social-housing-maintenance/in/longreach/): 9 rows
- [Mackay](https://publicdata.au/d/qld-social-housing-maintenance/in/mackay/): 139 rows
- [Mapoon](https://publicdata.au/d/qld-social-housing-maintenance/in/mapoon/): 3 rows
- [Maranoa](https://publicdata.au/d/qld-social-housing-maintenance/in/maranoa/): 19 rows
- [Mareeba](https://publicdata.au/d/qld-social-housing-maintenance/in/mareeba/): 29 rows
- [McKinlay](https://publicdata.au/d/qld-social-housing-maintenance/in/mckinlay/): 3 rows
- [Moreton Bay](https://publicdata.au/d/qld-social-housing-maintenance/in/moreton-bay/): 353 rows
- [Mornington](https://publicdata.au/d/qld-social-housing-maintenance/in/mornington/): 12 rows
- [Mount Isa](https://publicdata.au/d/qld-social-housing-maintenance/in/mount-isa/): 90 rows
- [Murweh](https://publicdata.au/d/qld-social-housing-maintenance/in/murweh/): 9 rows
- [Napranum](https://publicdata.au/d/qld-social-housing-maintenance/in/napranum/): 14 rows
- [Noosa](https://publicdata.au/d/qld-social-housing-maintenance/in/noosa/): 55 rows
- [North Burnett](https://publicdata.au/d/qld-social-housing-maintenance/in/north-burnett/): 34 rows
- [Northern Peninsula Area](https://publicdata.au/d/qld-social-housing-maintenance/in/northern-peninsula-area/): 35 rows
- [Palm Island](https://publicdata.au/d/qld-social-housing-maintenance/in/palm-island/): 13 rows
- [Paroo](https://publicdata.au/d/qld-social-housing-maintenance/in/paroo/): 11 rows
- [Pormpuraaw](https://publicdata.au/d/qld-social-housing-maintenance/in/pormpuraaw/): 9 rows
- [Quilpie](https://publicdata.au/d/qld-social-housing-maintenance/in/quilpie/): 4 rows
- [Redland](https://publicdata.au/d/qld-social-housing-maintenance/in/redland/): 118 rows
- [Richmond](https://publicdata.au/d/qld-social-housing-maintenance/in/richmond/): 1 rows
- [Rockhampton](https://publicdata.au/d/qld-social-housing-maintenance/in/rockhampton/): 128 rows
- [Scenic Rim](https://publicdata.au/d/qld-social-housing-maintenance/in/scenic-rim/): 16 rows
- [Somerset](https://publicdata.au/d/qld-social-housing-maintenance/in/somerset/): 13 rows
- [South Burnett](https://publicdata.au/d/qld-social-housing-maintenance/in/south-burnett/): 44 rows
- [Southern Downs](https://publicdata.au/d/qld-social-housing-maintenance/in/southern-downs/): 31 rows
- [Sunshine Coast](https://publicdata.au/d/qld-social-housing-maintenance/in/sunshine-coast/): 308 rows
- [Tablelands](https://publicdata.au/d/qld-social-housing-maintenance/in/tablelands/): 37 rows
- [Toowoomba](https://publicdata.au/d/qld-social-housing-maintenance/in/toowoomba/): 228 rows
- [Torres](https://publicdata.au/d/qld-social-housing-maintenance/in/torres/): 25 rows
- [Torres Strait Island](https://publicdata.au/d/qld-social-housing-maintenance/in/torres-strait-island/): 82 rows
- [Townsville](https://publicdata.au/d/qld-social-housing-maintenance/in/townsville/): 288 rows
- [Various](https://publicdata.au/d/qld-social-housing-maintenance/in/various/): 21 rows
- [Western Downs](https://publicdata.au/d/qld-social-housing-maintenance/in/western-downs/): 41 rows
- [Whitsunday](https://publicdata.au/d/qld-social-housing-maintenance/in/whitsunday/): 41 rows
- [Winton](https://publicdata.au/d/qld-social-housing-maintenance/in/winton/): 7 rows
- [Woorabinda](https://publicdata.au/d/qld-social-housing-maintenance/in/woorabinda/): 12 rows
- [Wujal Wujal](https://publicdata.au/d/qld-social-housing-maintenance/in/wujal-wujal/): 10 rows
- [Yarrabah](https://publicdata.au/d/qld-social-housing-maintenance/in/yarrabah/): 9 rows

## Attribution and citation

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.

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 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/

Harvard: Department of Housing and Public Works (2025) Social housing maintenance and modification spending, Queensland, version 2025-12-17 [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-social-housing-maintenance/v/2025-12-17/

Markdown: Data: [Social housing data from Queensland](https://www.data.qld.gov.au/dataset/property-management-government-owned-assets), Department of Housing and Public Works, [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), sourced 3 October 2026. Files: [publicdata.au](https://publicdata.au/d/qld-social-housing-maintenance/v/2025-12-17/) by [National Digital](https://nationaldigital.com.au/).

## 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 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.

## 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.csv`.

## Improve this dataset

This page is built from [register/qld-social-housing-maintenance.yaml](https://github.com/National-Digital/publicdata.au/blob/main/register/qld-social-housing-maintenance.yaml) on GitHub, and a fix to it is welcome as a pull request. https://publicdata.au/contribute/ explains how.