Social housing register, Queensland
liveOne row per application on the Queensland social housing register at the end of a quarter, with the level of housing need (Very High or High), active or inactive status, the housing service centre, council area and state electorate of the first locational preference, bedrooms required, the programs applied for, the month the application was approved, the months on the register, family type, people on the application, up to six preferred letting areas, and flags for disability, homelessness risk and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander households. The department changed its systems in 2019-20, which changed some coding.
Also called: Queensland public housing waiting list, Queensland housing register applications, Social Housing Register Queensland.
Part of Social housing data from Queensland, 3 tables the publisher releases together: Social housing maintenance and modification spending, Queensland, Public housing dwellings, Queensland.
- What is in each row?
- One application on the social housing register at the date of the release. It gives the level of assessed housing need, the housing service centre, the council area and state electorate of the first preferred location, the bedrooms needed, the housing programs applied for, when the application was approved, months on the register, the family type, the number of people and up to six preferred letting areas.
- What does a suppressed value mean?
- The publisher writes n.a. where a value is unavailable or withheld for confidentiality. Every n.a. in this file is in a text column, such as the interview language, the letting areas and the yes or no flags, and it is kept there as the text n.a.
- Does each release replace the last?
- Yes. The publisher adds a new file every quarter, and this entry follows the newest. Each quarter is kept here as its own version. The row_id numbers each release and does not follow an application from one release to the next.
Made for agents
Connect your AI agent
Any agent that connects to publicdata.au/mcp can find this dataset, read its 24 fields, count and filter across all 26,961 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 register, Queensland hold, and what changed in the newest version?
claude mcp add --transport http publicdata https://publicdata.au/mcpOne command. No key, no account, no sign-up.
Settings, then Connectors, then Add custom connector, and paste https://publicdata.au/mcp.
On the web and in the desktop app.
https://publicdata.au/mcpStreamable 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.
The dashboard above, live. Click to filter, add panels, share a link or embed a frame.
Query APIFilter and count from a URLaggregate?group=local_govt_authority&metric=count
Applications by council area: 5,552 Brisbane City Council, 2,711 Moreton Bay Regional Council, 1,991 Townsville City Council, 1,973 Gold Coast City Council.
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.
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-register/latest/ redirects to the newest version.
https://publicdata.au/d/qld-social-housing-register/latest/data.csvIn 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-register/latest/data.csvIn 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-register")
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-register")
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-register/v/2026-09-02/data.duckdb' AS qld_social_housing_register (READ_ONLY);
SELECT local_govt_authority, count(*) FROM qld_social_housing_register.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-register/aggregate?group=local_govt_authority&metric=count");
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| row_id | integer | row_id | Numbers the rows of one release. |
| application_list_category | string | ApplicationListCategory | Level of assessed housing need, Very High or High. |
| housing_service_centre | string | HousingServiceCentre | Where the application was lodged. |
| local_govt_authority | string | LocalGovtAuthority | Council area of the household's first locational preference. |
| state_electorate | string | StateElectorate | State electorate of the household's first locational preference. |
| application_list_status_desc | string | ApplicationListStatusDesc | ACTIVE when ready to be offered housing, INACTIVE when the applicant is not yet ready. |
| rehousing_list_desc | string | RehousingListDesc | Whether the application is new or a transfer. |
| language_preference | string | LanguagePreference | |
| bedrooms_required | integer | BedroomsRequired | |
| application_type | string | ApplicationType | Public/CH is public or community housing, ATSIH is Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Housing, RIC is Remote Indigenous Community. |
| application_received_month | date | ApplicationReceivedMonth | First day of the month the application was approved. |
| months_on_housing_register | integer | MonthsonHousingRegister | |
| family_type | string | FamilyType | |
| people_on_application | integer | PeopleonApplication | |
| letting_area_1 | string | LettingArea1Desc | |
| letting_area_2 | string | LettingArea2Desc | |
| letting_area_3 | string | LettingArea3Desc | |
| letting_area_4 | string | LettingArea4Desc | |
| letting_area_5 | string | LettingArea5Desc | |
| letting_area_6 | string | LettingArea6Desc | |
| disability_mod_request | string | DisabilityModRequestFlag | |
| at_risk_of_or_experiencing_homelessness | string | AtRiskOfOrExperiencingHomelessnessFlag | Yes, No or n.a., at the time of application. |
| disability_application | string | DisabilityApplicationFlag | Yes, No or n.a. |
| indigenous_application | string | IndigenousApplicationFlag | Yes, No or n.a. |
| suppressed | array | Names of the fields the publisher suppressed in this row. The cells are null. |
Download this table as a data dictionary (Excel), or read it as a Frictionless Table Schema at schema.json. The key is row_id.
A sample of 10 rows
From the latest version, newest first by approved, each council area in turn, then in the publisher's order, with every field. A blank cell is shown as null.
| row_id | application_list_category | housing_service_centre | local_govt_authority | state_electorate | application_list_status_desc | rehousing_list_desc | language_preference | bedrooms_required | application_type | application_received_month | months_on_housing_register | family_type | people_on_application | letting_area_1 | letting_area_2 | letting_area_3 | letting_area_4 | letting_area_5 | letting_area_6 | disability_mod_request | at_risk_of_or_experiencing_homelessness | disability_application | indigenous_application |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25661 | Very High | TOOWOOMBA AND SOUTH WEST HSC | Toowoomba Regional Council | Toowoomba South | ACTIVE | Housing Register Applicants | n.a. | 3 | Public/CH, Transitional, Affordable | 2026-06-01 | 0 | 04. Single Parent, >2 Children | 4 | n.a. | n.a. | NEWTOWN AREA | ROCKVILLE AREA | TOOWOOMBA CITY AREA | WILSONTON AREA | No | Yes | No | No |
| 25714 | Very High | CAIRNS HSC | Cairns Regional Council | Cairns | ACTIVE | Housing Register Applicants | English | 1 | Public/CH, ATSIH, Transitional, Affordable | 2026-06-01 | 0 | 01. Single Person | 1 | EDGE HILL AREA | EDMONTON AREA | EARLVILLE AREA | MOOROOBOOL AREA | MANOORA AREA | PARRAMATTA PARK AREA | No | Yes | No | Yes |
| 25719 | Very High | CAIRNS HSC | Townsville City Council | Thuringowa | ACTIVE | Housing Register Applicants | n.a. | 1 | Public/CH, ATSIH, Transitional, Affordable | 2026-06-01 | 0 | 01. Single Person | 1 | CONDON AREA | EDMONTON AREA | EARLVILLE AREA | null | null | null | No | Yes | No | Yes |
| 25739 | Very High | GOLD COAST HSC | Gold Coast City Council | Currumbin | ACTIVE | Housing Register Applicants | n.a. | 1 | Public/CH, Transitional, Affordable | 2026-06-01 | 0 | 01. Single Person | 1 | CURRUMBIN WATERS AREA | HELENSVALE AREA | MIAMI AREA | NERANG AREA | PALM BEACH AREA | PIMPAMA AREA | No | Yes | No | No |
| 25793 | Very High | IPSWICH HSC | Ipswich City Council | Ipswich West | ACTIVE | Housing Register Applicants | n.a. | 2 | Public/CH, Transitional, Affordable | 2026-06-01 | 0 | 03. Single Parent, 2 Children | 3 | n.a. | n.a. | LAIDLEY AREA | ONE MILE AREA | RACEVIEW AREA | RIVERVIEW AREA | No | Yes | No | Yes |
| 25804 | Very High | TOWNSVILLE HSC | Brisbane City Council | Cooper | ACTIVE | Housing Register Applicants | n.a. | 1 | Public/CH, Transitional, Affordable | 2026-06-01 | 0 | 01. Single Person | 1 | ASHGROVE AREA | BARDON AREA | BOWEN HILLS AREA | DUTTON PARK AREA | EAST BRISBANE AREA | FORTITUDE VALLEY AREA | No | Yes | No | Yes |
| 25812 | Very High | GOLD COAST HSC | Cassowary Coast Regional Council | Hill | ACTIVE | Housing Register Applicants | n.a. | 4 | Public/CH, Transitional, Affordable | 2026-06-01 | 0 | 03. Single Parent, 2 Children | 3 | n.a. | n.a. | PARADISE POINT AREA | SMITHFIELD AREA | SOUTHPORT AREA | TULLY AREA | No | Yes | No | No |
| 25856 | Very High | MARYBOROUGH HSC | Bundaberg Regional Council | Bundaberg | ACTIVE | Housing Register Applicants | n.a. | 1 | Public/CH, Transitional, Affordable | 2026-06-01 | 0 | 01. Single Person | 1 | EAST BUNDABERG AREA | NORTH BUNDABERG AREA | SOUTH BUNDABERG AREA | WEST BUNDABERG AREA | BARGARA AREA | MOORE PARK AREA | No | Yes | No | No |
| 25942 | Very High | MAROOCHYDORE HSC | Sunshine Coast Regional Council | Ninderry | ACTIVE | Housing Register Applicants | n.a. | 2 | Public/CH, Transitional, Affordable | 2026-06-01 | 0 | 02. Single Parent, 1 Child | 2 | BLI BLI AREA | CALOUNDRA AREA | MOOLOOLABA AREA | MAROOCHYDORE AREA | NOOSA HEADS AREA | TEWANTIN AREA | No | Yes | No | No |
| 25972 | Very High | MORETON BAY HSC | Moreton Bay Regional Council | Morayfield | ACTIVE | Housing Register Applicants | English | 1 | Public/CH, Transitional, Affordable | 2026-06-01 | 0 | 09. Single Person Over 55 | 1 | CABOOLTURE AREA | DECEPTION BAY AREA | REDCLIFFE AREA | ROCHEDALE SOUTH AREA | SPRINGWOOD AREA | UNDERWOOD AREA | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
The first row as JSON
As it appears in data.json.
GET https://publicdata.au/d/qld-social-housing-register/latest/data.json
{
"row_id": 0,
"application_list_category": "Very High",
"housing_service_centre": "BURANDA HSC",
"local_govt_authority": "Brisbane City Council",
"state_electorate": "Greenslopes",
"application_list_status_desc": "ACTIVE",
"rehousing_list_desc": "Housing Register Applicants",
"language_preference": "n.a.",
"bedrooms_required": 1,
"application_type": "Public/CH, Transitional, Affordable",
"application_received_month": "1997-05-01",
"months_on_housing_register": 349,
"family_type": "10. Couple Only Over 55",
"people_on_application": 2,
"letting_area_1": "n.a.",
"letting_area_2": "n.a.",
"letting_area_3": "MOUNT GRAVATT EAST AREA",
"letting_area_4": "MOUNT GRAVATT AREA",
"letting_area_5": "SUNNYBANK AREA",
"letting_area_6": "YERONGA AREA",
"disability_mod_request": "Yes",
"at_risk_of_or_experiencing_homelessness": "No",
"disability_application": "Yes",
"indigenous_application": "No"
}
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.
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.
- Aurukun Shire Council92
- Balonne Shire Council15
- Banana Shire Council51
- Barcaldine Regional Council10
- Blackall-Tambo Regional Council5
- Boulia Shire Council2
- Brisbane City Council5,552
- Bundaberg Regional Council858
- Burdekin Shire Council100
- Burke Shire Council7
- Cairns Regional Council1,867
- Carpentaria Shire Council6
- Cassowary Coast Regional Council59
- Central Highlands Regional Council73
- Charters Towers Regional Council40
- Cherbourg Aboriginal Shire Council3
- Cloncurry Shire Council11
- Cook Shire Council102
- Croydon Shire Council3
- Doomadgee Aboriginal Shire Council29
- Douglas Shire Council23
- Etheridge Shire Council1
- Flinders Shire Council3
- Fraser Coast Regional Council627
- Gladstone Regional Council286
- Gold Coast City Council1,973
- Goondiwindi Regional Council28
- Gympie Regional Council144
- Hinchinbrook Shire Council33
- Hope Vale Aboriginal Shire Council13
- Ipswich City Council1,213
- Isaac Regional Council13
- Kowanyama Aboriginal Shire Council49
- Livingstone Shire Council164
- Lockhart River Aboriginal Shire Council17
- Lockyer Valley Regional Council60
- Logan City Council1,955
- Longreach Regional Council4
- Mackay Regional Council781
- Mapoon Aboriginal Shire Council17
- Maranoa Regional Council26
- Mareeba Shire Council32
- Moreton Bay Regional Council2,711
- Mornington Shire Council11
- Mount Isa City Council66
- Murweh Shire Council17
- Napranum Aboriginal Shire Council22
- Noosa Shire Council84
- North Burnett Regional Council16
- Northern Peninsula Area Regional Council58
- Palm Island Aboriginal Shire Council60
- Paroo Shire Council14
- Pormpuraaw Aboriginal Shire Council28
- Quilpie Shire Council1
- Redland City Council965
- Rockhampton Regional Council382
- Scenic Rim Regional Council151
- Somerset Regional Council18
- South Burnett Regional Council49
- Southern Downs Regional Council69
- Sunshine Coast Regional Council1,904
- Tablelands Regional Council506
- Toowoomba Regional Council1,006
- Torres Shire Council58
- Torres Strait Island Regional Council8
- Townsville City Council1,991
- Western Downs Regional Council204
- Whitsunday Regional Council154
- Winton Shire Council1
- Woorabinda Aboriginal Shire Council52
- Wujal Wujal Aboriginal Shire Council8
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.
- 2026-09-02 26,961 rows24 fieldsutf-8-sig85dd7d8e71f8
versions.json · changes.json · history.tar.zst (394 KB, every version's Parquet and manifest)
Questions
How do I download Social housing register as a CSV file?
Open https://publicdata.au/d/qld-social-housing-register/latest/data.csv. It redirects to the newest dated version, which is https://publicdata.au/d/qld-social-housing-register/v/2026-09-02/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 register in Excel?
Yes. https://publicdata.au/d/qld-social-housing-register/v/2026-09-02/data.xlsx is a workbook with the 26,961 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-register/v/2026-09-02/data.csv.gz is the CSV at about a tenth of the size.
What years does Social housing register cover?
The current version covers 1998 to 2025. Each release from Housing and Public Works becomes a new dated version here, and earlier versions stay online.
How often is Social housing register updated?
Housing and Public Works releases it quarterly. This site checks the portal every week and adds a dated version when the file changes.
Can I use Social housing register 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 register?
No. The publisher is Department of Housing and Public Works, and its page is https://www.data.qld.gov.au/dataset/social-housing-register. 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 govt authority?
Every version has one JSON file per value of local_govt_authority, 71 files in the current version, listed with row counts at https://publicdata.au/d/qld-social-housing-register/v/2026-09-02/by/local_govt_authority/index.json. For example https://publicdata.au/d/qld-social-housing-register/v/2026-09-02/by/local_govt_authority/brisbane-city-council.json holds the 5,552 rows where local_govt_authority is Brisbane City Council.
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.