Homelessness services, Report on Government Services
liveThe Productivity Commission's Report on Government Services 2026 dataset for Part G section 19, Homelessness services, one row per table line with the table number, year, measure, disaggregations by age, sex, Indigenous status, remoteness, disability status, service type and client type, the description columns, data source and unit, and a value for each state and territory and for Australia.
Also called: RoGS homelessness services, Report on Government Services Part G section 19, Specialist homelessness services performance indicators, Homelessness statistics by state Australia.
- What is in the homelessness services dataset?
- Every figure in the section 19 attachment tables: government expenditure on homelessness services, clients and support periods by age, sex, Indigenous status and remoteness, the reasons people seek help, unmet demand, and outcomes such as clients achieving independent housing, each for every state and territory and for Australia. The service figures cover the financial years 2020-21 to 2024-25, and the Census estimates of people who are homeless are for 2011, 2016 and 2021.
- What is the Report on Government Services?
- The Productivity Commission's yearly report on the equity, effectiveness and efficiency of government services, compiled for the Council of Australian Governments and its successors since 1995. Each section's dataset holds every figure in the section's attachment tables in one long table, with a column for each state and territory and for Australia.
- What do np, na and .. mean?
- The Commission writes np where a figure is not published, na where it is not available and .. where it is not applicable. Not published is kept here as a null with a suppressed flag on the row; the other two are kept as plain nulls.
- Where do the figures come from?
- Each row names its data source, usually a state or territory government, the ABS or the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, as the Commission states it. The Commission publishes the dataset under CC BY 4.0 with third party content excepted, and the source column is how that content is identified.
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Then ask it: What does Homelessness services, Report on Government Services hold, and what changed in the newest version?
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Query APIFilter and count from a URLaggregate?group=description4&metric=sum.australia&description1=eq.People%20who%20are%20homeless%20by%20operational%20group&description3=eq.Number&year=eq.2021&sex=eq.All%20people&description4=neq.Total
People homeless in Australia on Census night 2021, by operational group: 47,895 People living in 'severely' crowded dwellings, 24,291 People in supported accommodation for the homeless, 22,137 People staying in boarding houses, 16,597 People staying temporarily with other households.
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.
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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/rogs-homelessness-services/latest/ redirects to the newest version.
https://publicdata.au/d/rogs-homelessness-services/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/rogs-homelessness-services/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("rogs-homelessness-services")
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("rogs-homelessness-services")
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/rogs-homelessness-services/v/2026-01-27/data.duckdb' AS rogs_homelessness_services (READ_ONLY);
SELECT table_number, count(*) FROM rogs_homelessness_services.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/rogs-homelessness-services/aggregate?group=description4&metric=sum.australia&description1=eq.People%20who%20are%20homeless%20by%20operational%20group&description3=eq.Number&year=eq.2021&sex=eq.All%20people&description4=neq.Total");
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| table_number | string | Table_Number | |
| year | string | Year | |
| measure | string | Measure | |
| age | string | Age | |
| sex | string | Sex | |
| indigenous_status | string | Indigenous_Status | |
| remoteness | string | Remoteness | |
| disability_status | string | Disability_Status | |
| service_type | string | Service_Type | |
| client_type | string | Client_Type | |
| year_dollars | string | Year_Dollars | |
| description1 | string | Description1 | |
| description2 | string | Description2 | |
| description3 | string | Description3 | |
| description4 | string | Description4 | |
| description5 | string | Description5 | |
| description6 | string | Description6 | |
| data_source | string | Data_Source | |
| unit | string | Unit | |
| nsw | number | NSW | |
| vic | number | Vic | |
| qld | number | Qld | |
| wa | number | WA | |
| sa | number | SA | |
| tas | number | Tas | |
| act | number | ACT | |
| nt | number | NT | |
| australia | number | Aust | |
| 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 first 10 rows
From the latest version, in the publisher's order, with every field. A blank cell is shown as null.
| table_number | year | measure | age | sex | indigenous_status | remoteness | disability_status | service_type | client_type | year_dollars | description1 | description2 | description3 | description4 | description5 | description6 | data_source | unit | nsw | vic | qld | wa | sa | tas | act | nt | australia |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19A.1 | 2024-25 | Recurrent expenditure | All ages | All people | All people | All areas | null | null | null | 2024-25 dollars | State and territory government expenditure on homelessness services | null | Total recurrent real expenditure | null | null | null | Derived from State and territory governments (unpublished); ABS Australian National Accounts: National Income Expenditu… | $m | 331.8 | 526.7 | 460.4 | 167.1 | 91.5 | 54.6 | 36.4 | 86.5 | 1754.9 |
| 19A.1 | 2024-25 | Recurrent expenditure | All ages | All people | All people | All areas | null | null | null | 2024-25 dollars | State and territory government expenditure on homelessness services | null | Real expenditure per person in the residential population | null | null | null | Derived from State and territory governments (unpublished); ABS Australian National Accounts: National Income Expenditu… | $ | 38.83 | 75.12 | 81.94 | 55.53 | 48.4 | 94.75 | 75.63 | 329.84 | 64.05 |
| 19A.1 | 2024-25 | Recurrent expenditure | All ages | All people | All people | All areas | null | null | null | null | State and territory government expenditure on homelessness services | null | Service delivery expenditure | null | null | null | Derived from State and territory governments (unpublished) | % | 96 | 99 | 97.2 | 97.4 | 89.8 | 94 | 96.3 | 87 | 96.5 |
| 19A.1 | 2024-25 | Recurrent expenditure | All ages | All people | All people | All areas | null | null | null | null | State and territory government expenditure on homelessness services | null | Administrative expenditure | null | null | null | Derived from State and territory governments (unpublished) | % | 4 | 1 | 2.8 | 2.6 | 10.2 | 6 | 3.7 | 13 | 3.5 |
| 19A.1 | 2023-24 | Recurrent expenditure | All ages | All people | All people | All areas | null | null | null | 2024-25 dollars | State and territory government expenditure on homelessness services | null | Total recurrent real expenditure | null | null | null | Derived from State and territory governments (unpublished); ABS Australian National Accounts: National Income Expenditu… | $m | 328.1 | 538.7 | 325.8 | 125.5 | 95.8 | 54.6 | 37.4 | 72.8 | 1578.7 |
| 19A.1 | 2023-24 | Recurrent expenditure | All ages | All people | All people | All areas | null | null | null | 2024-25 dollars | State and territory government expenditure on homelessness services | null | Real expenditure per person in the residential population | null | null | null | Derived from State and territory governments (unpublished); ABS Australian National Accounts: National Income Expenditu… | $ | 38.9 | 78.01 | 58.93 | 42.87 | 51.31 | 95 | 79.61 | 286.93 | 58.54 |
| 19A.1 | 2023-24 | Recurrent expenditure | All ages | All people | All people | All areas | null | null | null | null | State and territory government expenditure on homelessness services | null | Service delivery expenditure | null | null | null | Derived from State and territory governments (unpublished) | % | 95.4 | 99 | 98 | 96.5 | 87.3 | 94.7 | 96.6 | 80.7 | 96.1 |
| 19A.1 | 2023-24 | Recurrent expenditure | All ages | All people | All people | All areas | null | null | null | null | State and territory government expenditure on homelessness services | null | Administrative expenditure | null | null | null | Derived from State and territory governments (unpublished) | % | 4.6 | 1 | 2 | 3.5 | 12.7 | 5.3 | 3.4 | 19.3 | 3.9 |
| 19A.1 | 2022-23 | Recurrent expenditure | All ages | All people | All people | All areas | null | null | null | 2024-25 dollars | State and territory government expenditure on homelessness services | null | Total recurrent real expenditure | null | null | null | Derived from State and territory governments (unpublished); ABS Australian National Accounts: National Income Expenditu… | $m | 349.4 | 551 | 233.1 | 122.3 | 102.6 | 50.7 | 38.7 | 68.2 | 1515.9 |
| 19A.1 | 2022-23 | Recurrent expenditure | All ages | All people | All people | All areas | null | null | null | 2024-25 dollars | State and territory government expenditure on homelessness services | null | Real expenditure per person in the residential population | null | null | null | Derived from State and territory governments (unpublished); ABS Australian National Accounts: National Income Expenditu… | $ | 42.4 | 82.18 | 43.33 | 43.3 | 55.96 | 88.64 | 84.04 | 272.45 | 57.71 |
The first row as JSON
As it appears in data.json.
GET https://publicdata.au/d/rogs-homelessness-services/latest/data.json
{
"table_number": "19A.1",
"year": "2024-25",
"measure": "Recurrent expenditure",
"age": "All ages",
"sex": "All people",
"indigenous_status": "All people",
"remoteness": "All areas",
"disability_status": null,
"service_type": null,
"client_type": null,
"year_dollars": "2024-25 dollars",
"description1": "State and territory government expenditure on homelessness services",
"description2": null,
"description3": "Total recurrent real expenditure",
"description4": null,
"description5": null,
"description6": null,
"data_source": "Derived from State and territory governments (unpublished); ABS Australian National Accounts: National Income Expenditure and Product",
"unit": "$m",
"nsw": 331.8,
"vic": 526.7,
"qld": 460.4,
"wa": 167.1,
"sa": 91.5,
"tas": 54.6,
"act": 36.4,
"nt": 86.5,
"australia": 1754.9,
"suppressed": []
}
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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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.
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.
- 2026-01-27 2,618 rows28 fieldsutf-8-sig4cb38419eb58
versions.json · changes.json · history.tar.zst (77 KB, every version's Parquet and manifest)
Questions
How do I download Homelessness services as a CSV file?
Open https://publicdata.au/d/rogs-homelessness-services/latest/data.csv. It redirects to the newest dated version, which is https://publicdata.au/d/rogs-homelessness-services/v/2026-01-27/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 Homelessness services in Excel?
Yes. https://publicdata.au/d/rogs-homelessness-services/v/2026-01-27/data.xlsx is a workbook with the 2,618 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/rogs-homelessness-services/v/2026-01-27/data.csv.gz is the CSV at about a tenth of the size.
What years does Homelessness services cover?
The current version covers the years since 2011. Each release from PC becomes a new dated version here, and earlier versions stay online.
How often is Homelessness services updated?
PC releases it yearly. This site checks the portal every week and adds a dated version when the file changes.
Can I use Homelessness services 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 Homelessness services?
No. The publisher is Productivity Commission, and its page is https://www.pc.gov.au/copyright. 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.
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.