--- title: Dog and cat owners by council, sex and age, South Australia resource: https://publicdata.au/d/sa-dogs-cats-owners/ publisher: Department for Environment and Water licence: CC BY 4.0 licence_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ version: 2025-07-04 rows: 16680 fields: 6 source: https://data.sa.gov.au/data/dataset/11b13cf9-e361-4625-850c-f703e27a146b/resource/36a83a40-36e8-4dc2-9c25-16028702bb4d/download/data_sa_owners-2025-05-30.xlsx source_sha256: 53c0579babf6149642af06e4d216c7fbc743849e930e16028ad1c238027385e5 language: en-AU operator: National Digital not_endorsed: true --- # Dog and cat owners by council, sex and age, South Australia The number of dog and cat owners on South Australia's Dogs and Cats Online register in each council, by sex, age group and how many dogs and cats they keep. Updated yearly. Published by Department for Environment and Water under CC BY 4.0 and republished here in other formats, with cells typed and suppressed values made null. Department for Environment and Water has not endorsed this site. Also called: DACO owners data SA, Dog owners by council South Australia, How many dogs and cats SA owners keep. ## Download Latest version, redirects to `https://publicdata.au/d/sa-dogs-cats-owners/v/2025-07-04/`: - csv: https://publicdata.au/d/sa-dogs-cats-owners/latest/data.csv (860 KB) - xlsx: https://publicdata.au/d/sa-dogs-cats-owners/latest/data.xlsx (414 KB) - json: https://publicdata.au/d/sa-dogs-cats-owners/latest/data.json (1.8 MB) - parquet: https://publicdata.au/d/sa-dogs-cats-owners/latest/data.parquet (34 KB) - sqlite: https://publicdata.au/d/sa-dogs-cats-owners/latest/data.sqlite (815 KB) - duckdb: https://publicdata.au/d/sa-dogs-cats-owners/latest/data.duckdb (300 KB) - ndjson: https://publicdata.au/d/sa-dogs-cats-owners/latest/data.ndjson (1.7 MB) - arrow: https://publicdata.au/d/sa-dogs-cats-owners/latest/data.arrow (251 KB) - csv.gz: https://publicdata.au/d/sa-dogs-cats-owners/latest/data.csv.gz (71 KB) Pinned version 2025-07-04: `https://publicdata.au/d/sa-dogs-cats-owners/v/2025-07-04/data.`. 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/sa-dogs-cats-owners/rows. Counts and sums: https://publicdata.au/api/v1/datasets/sa-dogs-cats-owners/aggregate. - Rows: https://publicdata.au/api/v1/datasets/sa-dogs-cats-owners/rows?limit=5 - Aggregate: https://publicdata.au/api/v1/datasets/sa-dogs-cats-owners/aggregate?group=council&metric=sum.owners 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//` before `rows` or `aggregate` for an answer that never changes. `/api/v1/datasets//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/sa-dogs-cats-owners/openapi.json ## Explore Charts and dashboards in the browser: https://publicdata.au/d/sa-dogs-cats-owners/explore/. A dashboard can be shared as a link or embedded. ## Fields | field | type | publisher's header | note | |---|---|---|---| | `council` | string | Council | | | `sex` | string | Gender | | | `age_group` | string | AgeCategory | | | `dogs` | string | NumOfDogs | The number of dogs the owner keeps, or >5. | | `cats` | string | NumOfCats | The number of cats the owner keeps, or >5. | | `owners` | integer | Count | | ## Versions - 2025-07-04: 16680 rows, 6 fields, sha256 53c0579babf6. https://publicdata.au/d/sa-dogs-cats-owners/v/2025-07-04/ Machine-readable: https://publicdata.au/d/sa-dogs-cats-owners/versions.json, https://publicdata.au/d/sa-dogs-cats-owners/changes.json, https://publicdata.au/d/sa-dogs-cats-owners/datapackage.json, https://publicdata.au/d/sa-dogs-cats-owners/schema.json, https://publicdata.au/d/sa-dogs-cats-owners/history.tar.zst ## Part of Dogs and Cats Online, South Australia - [Dogs and cats by council, registration, microchip and desexing, South Australia](https://publicdata.au/d/sa-dogs-cats-registered-animals/) - [Dog and cat attack and harassment incidents, South Australia](https://publicdata.au/d/sa-dog-cat-incidents/) ## Same subject, other publishers - [Registered dogs and cats, Golden Plains Shire](https://publicdata.au/d/vic-golden-plains-animal-registrations/) (Local) - [Registered dogs and cats, Southern Grampians Shire](https://publicdata.au/d/vic-southern-grampians-animal-registrations/) (Local) - [Registered dogs by suburb, breed and colour, City of Greater Dandenong](https://publicdata.au/d/vic-greater-dandenong-registered-dogs/) (Local) - [Dog off-leash areas, Brisbane](https://publicdata.au/d/qld-brisbane-dog-off-leash-areas/) (Qld) ## Attribution and citation Department for Environment and Water, Government of South Australia, Dogs and Cats Online Data, https://data.sa.gov.au/data/dataset/dogs-and-cats-online-data-2024-2025, accessed 3 October 2026, 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 for Environment and Water, Government of South Australia, Dogs and Cats Online Data, https://data.sa.gov.au/data/dataset/dogs-and-cats-online-data-2024-2025, accessed 3 October 2026, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Serialised and versioned by National Digital at publicdata.au, https://publicdata.au/d/sa-dogs-cats-owners/v/2025-07-04/ Harvard: Department for Environment and Water (2025) Dog and cat owners by council, sex and age, South Australia, version 2025-07-04 [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/sa-dogs-cats-owners/v/2025-07-04/ Markdown: Data: [Dogs and Cats Online, South Australia](https://data.sa.gov.au/data/dataset/dogs-and-cats-online-data-2024-2025), Department for Environment and Water, [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), sourced 3 October 2026. Files: [publicdata.au](https://publicdata.au/d/sa-dogs-cats-owners/v/2025-07-04/) by [National Digital](https://nationaldigital.com.au/). ## Questions ### How do I download Dog and cat owners by council, sex and age as a CSV file? Open https://publicdata.au/d/sa-dogs-cats-owners/latest/data.csv. It redirects to the newest dated version, which is https://publicdata.au/d/sa-dogs-cats-owners/v/2025-07-04/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 Dog and cat owners by council, sex and age in Excel? Yes. https://publicdata.au/d/sa-dogs-cats-owners/v/2025-07-04/data.xlsx is a workbook with the 16,680 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/sa-dogs-cats-owners/v/2025-07-04/data.csv.gz is the CSV at about a tenth of the size. ### How often is Dog and cat owners by council, sex and age updated? Environment and Water releases it yearly. This site checks the portal every week and adds a dated version when the file changes. ### Can I use Dog and cat owners by council, sex and age 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 Dog and cat owners by council, sex and age? No. The publisher is Department for Environment and Water, and its page is https://data.sa.gov.au/data/dataset/dogs-and-cats-online-data-2024-2025. This site republishes the publisher's file without changing its content. The original sits beside every version as source.xlsx with its SHA-256, so the two can be compared. ### What is in each row? The number of owners on Dogs and Cats Online who live in one council area, share a sex and age group, and keep the same number of dogs and of cats with the status At Home. ### Why do the dog and cat counts read >5? The publisher groups owners with more than five dogs or cats under >5. The value is kept as text. ### Which council is it? The council where the owner lives, which may differ from the council where an animal is housed. ### Which year does the table cover? The newest extract from Dogs and Cats Online, taken on 30 May 2025 at the first version. The publisher releases a new portal dataset each year, and each extract becomes a version here. ## 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.xlsx`. ## Improve this dataset This page is built from [register/sa-dogs-cats-owners.yaml](https://github.com/National-Digital/publicdata.au/blob/main/register/sa-dogs-cats-owners.yaml) on GitHub, and a fix to it is welcome as a pull request. https://publicdata.au/contribute/ explains how.