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Explore Social housing register, Queensland

Charts and tables over the 26,961 rows of the latest version, worked out in your browser from the Parquet file. Nothing you do here leaves the browser until you save a link.

The explorer needs JavaScript and a browser from the last few years. The dataset page has every file and the query API.

Data: Department of Housing and Public Works, Queensland Government, Social Housing Register, sourced 3 October 2026, https://www.data.qld.gov.au/dataset/social-housing-register, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Licence terms.

How it works

Change a panel

Press Edit at the top right of a panel to open its settings. Drag fields into Group by, Split by, Sort by and Filter, pick a chart type at the top, and choose sum, count or average beside each number. More fields lists everything else in the dataset. The chart types include bars, lines, areas, scatter plots, heatmaps, treemaps and sunbursts. Add a chart puts a new panel on the dashboard. Drag a panel's title bar to move it, or drag the line between panels to resize.

Filter every panel at once

The chart marked Click to filter the others does just that: click a bar and the other panels show only those rows. Click it again to clear. Any panel can do the same. Open the menu at the left of its title bar and turn on filtering from there.

Share or keep a dashboard

The address bar holds the whole dashboard, so copying it is enough. Save a short link to store the dashboard on this site and get a shorter address. A saved dashboard never changes; saving again after an edit makes a new link. Embed gives a frame you can paste into a web page, with the attribution inside it.

Download what you see

The export button in a panel's settings toolbar downloads the panel as CSV, JSON or Arrow, or a chart as PNG. The copy button beside it puts the same data on the clipboard. The full files are on the dataset page.

What the fields mean

The explorer names each field in words. The files and the query API use the field name beside it.

In the explorerField nameTypeNote
Row numberrow_idintegerNumbers the rows of one release.
Housing needapplication_list_categorystringLevel of assessed housing need, Very High or High.
Housing service centrehousing_service_centrestringWhere the application was lodged.
Council arealocal_govt_authoritystringCouncil area of the household's first locational preference.
State electoratestate_electoratestringState electorate of the household's first locational preference.
Statusapplication_list_status_descstringACTIVE when ready to be offered housing, INACTIVE when the applicant is not yet ready.
Application kindrehousing_list_descstringWhether the application is new or a transfer.
Interview languagelanguage_preferencestring
Bedrooms requiredbedrooms_requiredinteger
Programs applied forapplication_typestringPublic/CH is public or community housing, ATSIH is Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Housing, RIC is Remote Indigenous Community.
Approvedapplication_received_monthdateFirst day of the month the application was approved.
Months on registermonths_on_housing_registerinteger
Family typefamily_typestring
People on applicationpeople_on_applicationinteger
Letting area preference 1letting_area_1string
Letting area preference 2letting_area_2string
Letting area preference 3letting_area_3string
Letting area preference 4letting_area_4string
Letting area preference 5letting_area_5string
Letting area preference 6letting_area_6string
Disability modifications requesteddisability_mod_requeststring
Homeless or at riskat_risk_of_or_experiencing_homelessnessstringYes, No or n.a., at the time of application.
Household with disabilitydisability_applicationstringYes, No or n.a.
Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander householdindigenous_applicationstringYes, No or n.a.
How it runs

The page downloads DuckDB and Perspective once, about 17 MB, then this version's data.parquet (426 KB). Every chart is a query DuckDB answers in the browser, so there is no rate limit and the files stay the only source. Dated versions never change, so a saved dashboard over one shows the same numbers for good.