State and local heritage places, South Australia
liveSA Heritage Places from the Department for Housing and Urban Development, the polygon layer giving an indicative footprint for each State Heritage Place on the South Australian Heritage Register and each Local Heritage Place in the Planning and Design Code. Each row carries the heritage number and identifier, the address, suburb and council, the description, the heritage class, the land use code, the criteria for listing, the interim and authorisation dates and references, the plan, parcel and title references, the location accuracy, and for state places the register status and date, the extent of listing and the statement of significance.
Also called: SA Heritage Places, South Australian Heritage Register places, Local heritage places in the Planning and Design Code, Heritage listed properties Adelaide.
- What is in each row?
- One footprint of a heritage place, with its heritage number and identifier, address, council, description, heritage class (state, local or contributory), the listing criteria and dates, the land parcels, and for state heritage places the register status, extent of listing and statement of significance where given. The shape is in the GeoParquet, GeoJSON, GeoPackage and PMTiles files.
- Why does one place have several rows?
- The publisher splits a parcel that carries more than one heritage item, and some items have more than one footprint, so one heritage number can appear on several rows. The polygon type column says how each footprint was drawn.
- How exact are the shapes?
- The publisher gives an indicative footprint and rates the location of each as high or low confidence, or unable to locate, in the accuracy columns. A low confidence footprint may not match the building on the ground.
- Where are the places without a footprint?
- The publisher's point layer of the same places has a few more rows than the footprints. This table holds the footprint layer.
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Then ask it: What does State and local heritage places, South Australia hold, and what changed in the newest version?
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Query APIFilter and count from a URLaggregate?group=council&metric=count&heritage_class=eq.State
Heritage footprints by council where heritage class is State: 479 Adelaide, 149 Adelaide Hills, 147 Clare and Gilbert Valleys, 130 Goyder Regional Council.
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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/sa-heritage-places/latest/ redirects to the newest version.
https://publicdata.au/d/sa-heritage-places/latest/data.csv In 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/sa-heritage-places/latest/data.csv In 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("sa-heritage-places")
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("sa-heritage-places")
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/sa-heritage-places/v/2026-06-28/data.duckdb' AS sa_heritage_places (READ_ONLY);
SELECT heritage_number, count(*) FROM sa_heritage_places.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/sa-heritage-places/aggregate?group=council&metric=count&heritage_class=eq.State");
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| heritage_number | integer | heritagenr | |
| heritage_id | string | idcode | |
| location | string | parlocatio | The street address and suburb as the publisher writes them together. |
| street_number | string | streetnr | |
| street_name | string | streetname | |
| street_type | string | streettype | |
| address_2 | string | address2 | |
| unit_number | string | unitnr | |
| suburb | string | suburb | |
| locality | string | locality | |
| council | string | lgadesc | |
| development_plan | string | devplandes | |
| details | string | details | |
| heritage_class_code | string | heritagecl | S, L or C. |
| heritage_class | string | heritage_1 | State, Local or Contributory. |
| second_class_code | string | heritage_2 | |
| second_class | string | heritage_3 | |
| local_class_type | string | lhpclassty | The publisher's code for the kind of local listing, T or CS. |
| state_register_code | integer | shrcode | |
| state_register_status | string | shrstatusc | PRO for provisional or REG for registered. |
| state_register_date | date | shrstatusd | |
| council_reference | string | councilref | |
| code | integer | code | The publisher's code for the listing, shared by places listed together. |
| land_use_code | string | as2482 | The use code or codes, separated by semicolons. |
| land_use | string | as2482desc | |
| location_accuracy_code | string | locationac | H, L or U. |
| location_accuracy | string | accuracyde | |
| data_source | string | sourceofda | |
| interim_date | date | interimdat | |
| interim_reference | string | interimpar | |
| authorised_date | date | authorisat | |
| authorisation_reference | string | authparref | |
| polygon_type_code | string | polygontyp | |
| polygon_type | string | polygont_1 | |
| section_23_criteria | string | section23s | The criteria letters under section 23 of the Heritage Places Act 1993 that the place meets. |
| section_16_criteria | string | section16s | The criteria letters under section 16 of the Heritage Places Act 1993 that the place meets. |
| plan_parcel | string | planparcel | |
| extent_of_listing | string | extentofli | |
| significance | string | significan |
Download this table as a data dictionary (Excel), or read it as a Frictionless Table Schema at schema.json.
A sample of 10 rows
From the latest version, newest first by state Heritage Register status date, then in the publisher's order, with every field. A blank cell is shown as null.
| heritage_number | heritage_id | location | street_number | street_name | street_type | address_2 | unit_number | suburb | locality | council | development_plan | details | heritage_class_code | heritage_class | second_class_code | second_class | local_class_type | state_register_code | state_register_status | state_register_date | council_reference | code | land_use_code | land_use | location_accuracy_code | location_accuracy | data_source | interim_date | interim_reference | authorised_date | authorisation_reference | polygon_type_code | polygon_type | section_23_criteria | section_16_criteria | plan_parcel | extent_of_listing | significance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29261 | H0202487 | 112 - 118 Rundle Mall ADELAIDE | 112 - 118 | Rundle Mall | null | null | null | ADELAIDE | null | Adelaide | ADELAIDE Council | Former G.J. Coles & Company Adelaide Store [including Charles Street Road Reserve and Rundle Mall Road Reserve awning a… | S | State | null | null | null | 26589 | REG | 2026-04-30 | null | 2487 | 10000 | Buildings in general | H | high level confidence | SHB | null | null | null | null | P | parcel (from DCDB) | null | A B E | CT 5886/22 F112182 A3,CT 6129/288 F112189 A1,CT 5886/24 F112182 A4,CT 0000/000 | null | The Former G. J. Coles & Company Adelaide Store demonstrates how city department stores transformed the way South Austr… |
| 29263 | H9660761 | 412 Light Pass Road LIGHT PASS | 412 | Light Pass Road | null | null | null | LIGHT PASS | null | Barossa | Barossa Council | Strait Gate Lutheran Church | S | State | null | null | null | 26621 | PRO | 2026-04-30 | null | 761 | 15500 | Religious Building | H | high level confidence | SHB | null | null | null | null | P | parcel (from DCDB) | null | null | CT 5832/907 F172757 A496,CT 5738/143 F172758 A497 | null | null |
| 29262 | H0800951 | 61 Braemer Road TORRENS PARK | 61 | Braemer Road | null | null | null | TORRENS PARK | null | Mitcham | Mitcham Council | Neighbour House | S | State | null | null | null | 26619 | PRO | 2026-02-12 | null | 951 | 16010 | House | H | high level confidence | SHB | null | null | null | null | P | parcel (from DCDB) | null | null | CT 5084/739 F19264 A60 | null | null |
| 28528 | H2524305 | 356 Torrens Road KILKENNY | 356 | Torrens Road | null | null | null | KILKENNY | null | Charles Sturt | Charles Sturt Council | Former Sisalkraft Factory Complex | S | State | null | null | null | 26557 | REG | 2025-12-11 | null | 4305 | 11020 | Factory | H | high level confidence | SHB | null | null | null | null | P | parcel (from DCDB) | null | D E | CT 5491/302 F6312 A8,CT 5491/304 F6312 A7,CT 5491/306 F6312 A10,CT 5232/375 F6312 A6,CT 5491/305 F6312 A11 | null | In 1956, the Former Sisalkraft Factory Complex was designed by architect Keith Neighbour and built for Sisalkraft Distr… |
| 16586 | H9240007 | Mount Wudinna Access WUDINNA | null | Mount Wudinna Access | null | null | null | WUDINNA | null | Wudinna | Le Hunte Council (now DC of Wudinna) | Mount Wudinna and Environs [Designated as a place of geological significance] | S | State | null | null | null | 17060 | REG | 2025-10-30 | null | 7 | 37100 | Geological Monuments | L | low level confidence | SHB | null | null | null | null | B | Building footprint | null | C | CR 5763/286 H641600 S51,CR 5897/847 D59272 A101,CR 6196/869 F31595 A10,CR 6199/369 H641600 S53,CT 5897/848 D59272 A102,… | null | STATEMENT OF HERITAGE SIGNIFICANCE Mount Wudinna and Environs is an exceptional example of granite inselbergs. Located… |
| 16586 | H9240007 | Mount Wudinna Access WUDINNA | null | Mount Wudinna Access | null | null | null | WUDINNA | null | Wudinna | Le Hunte Council (now DC of Wudinna) | Mount Wudinna and Environs [Designated as a place of geological significance] | S | State | null | null | null | 17060 | REG | 2025-10-30 | null | 7 | 37100 | Geological Monuments | L | low level confidence | SHB | null | null | null | null | B | Building footprint | null | C | CR 5763/286 H641600 S51,CR 5897/847 D59272 A101,CR 6196/869 F31595 A10,CR 6199/369 H641600 S53,CT 5897/848 D59272 A102,… | null | STATEMENT OF HERITAGE SIGNIFICANCE Mount Wudinna and Environs is an exceptional example of granite inselbergs. Located… |
| 28119 | H8940138 | Lot 550 Princes Highway TANTANOOLA | Lot 550 | Princes Highway | null | null | null | TANTANOOLA | null | Wattle Range | Wattle Range Council | Green Waterhole - Tank Cave Fossil Complex [Designated as a place of palaeontological, speleological and geological sig… | S | State | null | null | null | 26530 | REG | 2025-10-30 | null | 138 | 51150 | Cave - Cavern | H | high level confidence | SHB | null | null | null | null | P | parcel (from DCDB) | null | B C G | CR 5762/955 H420600 S550,CT 6311/164 H420600 S488,CT 6075/536 D86241 A71,CT 0000/0000 H420600 GOVERNMENT ROAD | null | STATEMENT OF HERITAGE SIGNIFICANCE The Green Waterhole - Tank Cave Fossil Complex contains the only known extensive und… |
| 28522 | H2524304 | 4 Milner Street HINDMARSH | 4 | Milner Street | null | null | null | HINDMARSH | null | Charles Sturt | Charles Sturt Council | Former Hindmarsh Town Hall Complex (facades) | S | State | null | null | null | 26609 | REG | 2025-08-14 | null | 4304 | null | null | H | high level confidence | null | null | null | null | null | P | parcel (from DCDB) | null | E | CT 5789/111 D51300 A1,CT 5789/106 D52380 A3 | null | The Former Hindmarsh Town Hall Complex (facades) is an outstanding example of Art Deco architecture in South Australia.… |
| 28521 | H9310008 | 97 Lincoln Highway PORT LINCOLN | 97 | Lincoln Highway | null | null | null | PORT LINCOLN | null | Port Lincoln | Port Lincoln (City) | Former A. A. Stenross & Company Boatyard | S | State | null | null | null | 26525 | REG | 2025-08-14 | null | 8 | null | null | H | high level confidence | null | null | null | null | null | D | item has been digitised (generally because it doesn't exist in a DCDB parcel, eg. bridge | null | B D | CR 5768/501 H510600 S1232 | null | Serving as a commercial enterprise between 1930 and 1980 and maintained as a museum, the Former A. A. Stenross & Compan… |
| 28580 | H3730171 | Lot 32 Main Street BRINKWORTH | Lot 32 | Main Street | null | null | null | BRINKWORTH | null | Wakefield Regional Council | Wakefield Regional Council | Brinkworth Bulk Grain Handling Complex | S | State | null | null | null | 26601 | PRO | 2025-06-26 | null | 171 | 11040; 32230 | Depot - Store; Silo | H | high level confidence | SHB | null | null | null | null | P | parcel (from DCDB) | null | A D | CT 6028/47 D77195 A32 | null | Established by the South Australian Co-operative of Bulk Handling (SACBH) in 1956, the Brinkworth Bulk Grain Handling C… |
The first row as JSON
As it appears in data.json.
GET https://publicdata.au/d/sa-heritage-places/latest/data.json
{
"heritage_number": 1480,
"heritage_id": "H0201446",
"location": "120 East Terrace ADELAIDE",
"street_number": "120",
"street_name": "East Terrace",
"street_type": null,
"address_2": null,
"unit_number": null,
"suburb": "ADELAIDE",
"locality": null,
"council": "Adelaide",
"development_plan": "ADELAIDE Council",
"details": "House - 'Dimora', front fence and gates and southern boundary wall",
"heritage_class_code": "S",
"heritage_class": "State",
"second_class_code": null,
"second_class": null,
"local_class_type": null,
"state_register_code": 10760,
"state_register_status": "REG",
"state_register_date": "1981-11-26",
"council_reference": null,
"code": 1446,
"land_use_code": "16010",
"land_use": "House",
"location_accuracy_code": "L",
"location_accuracy": "low level confidence",
"data_source": "SHB",
"interim_date": null,
"interim_reference": null,
"authorised_date": null,
"authorisation_reference": null,
"polygon_type_code": "B",
"polygon_type": "Building footprint",
"section_23_criteria": null,
"section_16_criteria": null,
"plan_parcel": "CT 5474/797 F14787 A22,CT 5483/248 F14787 A20,CT 5523/403 F14787 A21",
"extent_of_listing": null,
"significance": null
}
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.
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.
- 2026-06-28 23,229 rows39 fieldszip23350fd4c0e0
versions.json · changes.json · history.tar.zst (3.6 MB, every version's Parquet and manifest)
Questions
How do I download State and local heritage places as a CSV file?
Open https://publicdata.au/d/sa-heritage-places/latest/data.csv. It redirects to the newest dated version, which is https://publicdata.au/d/sa-heritage-places/v/2026-06-28/data.csv today. The same path serves Excel, JSON, GeoJSON, Parquet, SQLite, DuckDB, GeoPackage, PMTiles, NDJSON, Arrow. A dated URL never changes, so use it when the file must stay the same.
Can I open State and local heritage places in Excel?
Yes. https://publicdata.au/d/sa-heritage-places/v/2026-06-28/data.xlsx is a workbook with the 23,229 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-heritage-places/v/2026-06-28/data.csv.gz is the CSV at about a tenth of the size.
What years does State and local heritage places cover?
The current version covers 1981 to 2025. Each release from Housing and Urban Development becomes a new dated version here, and earlier versions stay online.
How often is State and local heritage places updated?
Housing and Urban Development releases it when the publisher updates the layer. This site checks the portal every week and adds a dated version when the file changes.
Can I use State and local heritage places 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 State and local heritage places?
No. The publisher is Department for Housing and Urban Development, and its page is https://data.sa.gov.au/data/dataset/sa-heritage-places. This site republishes the publisher's file without changing its content. The original sits beside every version as source.zip with its SHA-256, so the two can be compared.
What coordinate system does State and local heritage places use?
Shapes in GDA2020 (EPSG:7844), from the GDA2020 layer the publisher ships beside a GDA94 copy. The GeoJSON file uses GDA2020 as well, which differs from the WGS84 GeoJSON expects by well under a metre.
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.zip so the change can be checked.