--- title: Public housing households by council area, South Australia resource: https://publicdata.au/d/sa-public-housing-households/ publisher: South Australian Housing Trust licence: CC BY 4.0 licence_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ version: 2022-06-06 rows: 63 fields: 29 source: https://data.sa.gov.au/data/dataset/05b02046-9b18-40af-ac01-b2c8a7b2b513/resource/8eee5cdf-0814-479d-a2ca-73be82f7eb9f/download/households_ph_2020-21_sa_housing_authority.xlsx source_sha256: aa2a019a0d0dfcb3758c06b2b1a75f1140371b67f00ea9ec9bcec61fbd5f2716 language: en-AU operator: National Digital not_endorsed: true --- # Public housing households by council area, South Australia The number of households living in public housing in each South Australian council area at 30 June, by composition, tenure length, main source of income and other characteristics. Published by South Australian Housing Trust under CC BY 4.0 and republished here in other formats, with cells typed and suppressed values made null. South Australian Housing Trust has not endorsed this site. Also called: Social Housing households SA, SA public housing tenants by LGA, Housing Trust households by council. ## Download Latest version, redirects to `https://publicdata.au/d/sa-public-housing-households/v/2022-06-06/`: - csv: https://publicdata.au/d/sa-public-housing-households/latest/data.csv (16 KB) - xlsx: https://publicdata.au/d/sa-public-housing-households/latest/data.xlsx (18 KB) - json: https://publicdata.au/d/sa-public-housing-households/latest/data.json (74 KB) - parquet: https://publicdata.au/d/sa-public-housing-households/latest/data.parquet (22 KB) - sqlite: https://publicdata.au/d/sa-public-housing-households/latest/data.sqlite (41 KB) - duckdb: https://publicdata.au/d/sa-public-housing-households/latest/data.duckdb (200 KB) - ndjson: https://publicdata.au/d/sa-public-housing-households/latest/data.ndjson (71 KB) - arrow: https://publicdata.au/d/sa-public-housing-households/latest/data.arrow (18 KB) - csv.gz: https://publicdata.au/d/sa-public-housing-households/latest/data.csv.gz (4.1 KB) Pinned version 2022-06-06: `https://publicdata.au/d/sa-public-housing-households/v/2022-06-06/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-public-housing-households/rows. Counts and sums: https://publicdata.au/api/v1/datasets/sa-public-housing-households/aggregate. - Rows: https://publicdata.au/api/v1/datasets/sa-public-housing-households/rows?lga=neq.Total%20-%20households&limit=5 - Aggregate: https://publicdata.au/api/v1/datasets/sa-public-housing-households/aggregate?group=lga&metric=sum.total_households&lga=neq.Total%20-%20households 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-public-housing-households/openapi.json ## Explore Charts and dashboards in the browser: https://publicdata.au/d/sa-public-housing-households/explore/. A dashboard can be shared as a link or embedded. ## Fields | field | type | publisher's header | note | |---|---|---|---| | `lga` | string | Local Government Area | | | `total_households` | number | Total households | | | `number_of_household_members` | number | Number of household members | | | `aboriginal_households` | number | Aboriginal households | | | `households_with_person_with_disability` | number | Households with person with disability | | | `average_market_rent_of_occupied_dwellings_30_june` | number | Average market rent of occupied dwellings, 30 June | The publisher's figure, as published. | | `average_rent_changed_30_june` | number | Average rent changed, 30 June | The publisher's figure, as published. | | `paying_less_than_market_rent` | number | Paying less than market rent | | | `single_person` | number | Single person | | | `single_parent_with_dependent_children` | number | Single parent with dependent children | | | `couple_only` | number | Couple only | | | `couple_with_dependent_children` | number | Couple with dependent children | | | `group_or_mixed_composition` | number | Group or mixed composition | | | `has_child_under_15_years` | number | Has child under 15 years | | | `has_child_under_5_years` | number | Has child under 5 years | | | `has_adult_65_years_or_more` | number | Has adult 65 years or more | | | `younger_person_main_tenant_under_25_years` | number | Younger person (main tenant under 25 years) | | | `overcrowded_households` | number | Overcrowded households | | | `underutilised_households` | number | Underutilised households | | | `tenure_under_3_years` | number | under 3 years | | | `tenure_3_to_9_years` | number | 3 to 9 years | | | `tenure_10_or_more_years` | number | 10 or more years | | | `aged_pension` | number | Aged Pension | | | `disability_support_pension` | number | Disability Support Pension | | | `job_seeker` | number | Job Seeker | | | `other_government_payment` | number | Other Government payment | | | `employee_cash_income_wages` | number | Employee cash income / wages | | | `other_cash_income` | number | Other cash income | | | `income_not_stated` | number | Income not stated | | ## Versions - 2022-06-06: 63 rows, 29 fields, sha256 aa2a019a0d0d. https://publicdata.au/d/sa-public-housing-households/v/2022-06-06/ Machine-readable: https://publicdata.au/d/sa-public-housing-households/versions.json, https://publicdata.au/d/sa-public-housing-households/changes.json, https://publicdata.au/d/sa-public-housing-households/datapackage.json, https://publicdata.au/d/sa-public-housing-households/schema.json, https://publicdata.au/d/sa-public-housing-households/history.tar.zst ## Part of Public housing by council area, South Australia - [Public housing dwellings by council area, South Australia](https://publicdata.au/d/sa-public-housing-dwellings/) - [New households housed in public housing by council area, South Australia](https://publicdata.au/d/sa-public-housing-new-households/) ## Same subject, other publishers - [Public housing dwellings, Queensland](https://publicdata.au/d/qld-public-housing-dwellings/) (Qld) - [Social housing register, Queensland](https://publicdata.au/d/qld-social-housing-register/) (Qld) - [Social housing maintenance and modification spending, Queensland](https://publicdata.au/d/qld-social-housing-maintenance/) (Qld) - [Average age of public housing dwellings by suburb and bedrooms, Western Australia](https://publicdata.au/d/wa-public-housing-dwelling-age-by-suburb/) (WA) - [Building approvals by Local Government Area, monthly, 2025-26, Australia](https://publicdata.au/d/au-building-approvals-by-lga-2025-26/) (Cth) - [Dwelling completions per 1,000 people, New South Wales](https://publicdata.au/d/nsw-dwelling-completions/) (NSW) - [Change in land values by council area, Queensland, 2010 onwards](https://publicdata.au/d/qld-land-valuation-trends/) (Qld) - [Land valuation objection rates by council area, Queensland, 2019](https://publicdata.au/d/qld-valuation-objection-rates/) (Qld) - [Median house sale prices by suburb, metropolitan Adelaide](https://publicdata.au/d/sa-metro-median-house-prices/) (SA) - [Median house prices by suburb, Victoria](https://publicdata.au/d/vic-median-house-prices-by-suburb/) (Vic) - [Median unit prices by suburb, Victoria](https://publicdata.au/d/vic-median-unit-prices-by-suburb/) (Vic) - [Median vacant land prices by suburb, Victoria](https://publicdata.au/d/vic-median-vacant-land-prices-by-suburb/) (Vic) ## Attribution and citation South Australian Housing Trust, Government of South Australia, Social Housing – households, https://data.sa.gov.au/data/dataset/social-housing-households, 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: South Australian Housing Trust, Government of South Australia, Social Housing – households, https://data.sa.gov.au/data/dataset/social-housing-households, accessed 3 October 2026, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Serialised and versioned by National Digital at publicdata.au, https://publicdata.au/d/sa-public-housing-households/v/2022-06-06/ Harvard: South Australian Housing Trust (2022) Public housing households by council area, South Australia, version 2022-06-06 [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-public-housing-households/v/2022-06-06/ Markdown: Data: [Public housing by council area, South Australia](https://data.sa.gov.au/data/dataset/social-housing-households), South Australian Housing Trust, [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), sourced 3 October 2026. Files: [publicdata.au](https://publicdata.au/d/sa-public-housing-households/v/2022-06-06/) by [National Digital](https://nationaldigital.com.au/). ## Questions ### How do I download Public housing households by council area as a CSV file? Open https://publicdata.au/d/sa-public-housing-households/latest/data.csv. It redirects to the newest dated version, which is https://publicdata.au/d/sa-public-housing-households/v/2022-06-06/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 Public housing households by council area in Excel? Yes. https://publicdata.au/d/sa-public-housing-households/v/2022-06-06/data.xlsx is a workbook with the 63 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-public-housing-households/v/2022-06-06/data.csv.gz is the CSV at about a tenth of the size. ### How often is Public housing households by council area updated? SA Housing Trust releases it yearly. This site checks the portal every week and adds a dated version when the file changes. ### Can I use Public housing households by council area 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 Public housing households by council area? No. The publisher is South Australian Housing Trust, and its page is https://data.sa.gov.au/data/dataset/social-housing-households. 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? One council area, with the publisher's counts of households and their characteristics in the columns named. ### What does n.p. mean? The publisher replaces every count for a council area with n.p. where the area has one to three households. Those cells are nulls here, flagged as suppressed. ### Are the counts exact? No. The publisher rounds counts to the nearest multiple of 5, so rows and columns may not add to the totals. The publisher's Total and percentage of total rows are kept as published at the end of the table, and because the percentage row holds fractions, every count column is typed as a number. ### Which date does the table cover? The newest file the publisher has released, 30 June 2021 at the first version. The files for 2019-20 stay on the portal, and each new file 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-public-housing-households.yaml](https://github.com/National-Digital/publicdata.au/blob/main/register/sa-public-housing-households.yaml) on GitHub, and a fix to it is welcome as a pull request. https://publicdata.au/contribute/ explains how.