One council area, with the publisher's counts of new households housed and their characteristics in the columns named.

The publisher replaces every count for a council area with n.p. where the area has one to three new households housed. 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, 2020-21 at the first version. The files for 2019-20 stay on the portal, and each new file becomes a version here.

Datasets / South Australia / SA Housing Trust / Public housing by council area, South Australia

New households housed in public housing by council area, South Australia

Name: New households housed in public housing by council area, South Australia
Creator: South Australian Housing Trust
Published: 2022-06-06
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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Publisher South Australian Housing TrustUpdated yearlyLicence CC BY 4.0Latest 2022-06-06Rows 63Fields 24

New households housed in public housing by Local Government Area from the South Australian Housing Trust, from South Australia's contribution to the national Public Housing data collection. Each row is one council area with the number of households housed in the year and their members, the households in greatest need and those housed within six months, Aboriginal households and households with a person with disability, those paying less than market rent, and counts by household composition, children and older members and main source of income.

Also called: Social Housing new households housed SA, SA public housing allocations by LGA, Housing Trust new tenancies by council.

Part of Public housing by council area, South Australia, 3 tables the publisher releases together: Public housing dwellings by council area, South Australia, Public housing households by council area, South Australia.

Before you use it

What is in each row?: One council area, with the publisher's counts of new households housed 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 new households housed. 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, 2020-21 at the first version. The files for 2019-20 stay on the portal, and each new file becomes a version here.

Made for agents

Connect your AI agent

Any agent that connects to publicdata.au/mcp can find this dataset, read its 24 fields, count and filter across all 63 rows and diff its versions. Every answer names the version and carries SA Housing Trust's attribution. No key.

Then ask it: What does New households housed in public housing by council area, South Australia hold, and what changed in the newest version?

claude mcp add --transport http publicdata https://publicdata.au/mcp

One command. No key, no account, no sign-up.

https://publicdata.au/mcp

Streamable HTTP. Cursor, VS Code or any client that connects to a remote MCP server.

Using https://publicdata.au/llms.txt, how many people died on Queensland roads in 2025, by month?

For an assistant that reads the web and has no connector.

ExploreChart every row in your browser

A dashboard over every row. Click to filter, add panels, share a link or embed a frame.

Query APIFilter and count from a URL

aggregate?group=lga&metric=sum.new_households_housed&lga=neq.Total%20-%20new%20household%20housed

New households housed by local government area where local government area is not Total - new household housed: 200 City of Port Adelaide Enfield, 150 City of Whyalla, 140 City of Charles Sturt, 135 City of Onkaparinga.

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.

Format

Version "Latest" redirects to the newest version and will change when the publisher releases again. A dated version never changes.

https://publicdata.au/d/sa-public-housing-new-households/latest/data.xlsx

Download

In your own tools

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-public-housing-new-households/latest/ redirects to the newest version.

https://publicdata.au/d/sa-public-housing-new-households/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-public-housing-new-households/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-public-housing-new-households")
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-public-housing-new-households")
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-public-housing-new-households/v/2022-06-06/data.duckdb' AS sa_public_housing_new_households (READ_ONLY);
SELECT lga, count(*) FROM sa_public_housing_new_households.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-public-housing-new-households/aggregate?group=lga&metric=sum.new_households_housed&lga=neq.Total%20-%20new%20household%20housed");
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
lga	string	Local Government Area
new_households_housed	number	New households housed
number_of_household_members	number	Number of household members
households_in_greatest_need	number	Households in greatest need
aboriginal_households	number	Aboriginal households
households_with_person_with_disability	number	Households with person with disability
paying_less_than_market_rent	number	Paying less than market rent
greatest_need_households_and_time_waited_was_under_6_months	number	Greatest need households and time waited was under 6 months
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)
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	number	Employee cash income
other_cash_income	number	Other cash income
income_not_stated	number	Income not stated
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.

A sample of 10 rows

The ten council areas with the most new households housed in the year, most first. A blank cell is shown as null.

lga	new_households_housed	number_of_household_members	households_in_greatest_need	aboriginal_households	households_with_person_with_disability	paying_less_than_market_rent	greatest_need_households_and_time_waited_was_under_6_months	single_person	single_parent_with_dependent_children	couple_only	couple_with_dependent_children	group_or_mixed_composition	has_child_under_15_years	has_child_under_5_years	has_adult_65_years_or_more	younger_person_main_tenant_under_25_years	aged_pension	disability_support_pension	job_seeker	other_government_payment	employee_cash_income	income_not_stated
City of Port Adelaide Enfield	200	300	185	55	95	185	140	150	30	5	5	10	35	15	10	20	5	55	70	50	10	10
City of Whyalla	150	285	135	45	50	130	100	80	45	5	5	10	55	30	20	15	15	20	50	45	10	10
City of Charles Sturt	140	240	135	45	75	125	115	90	30	10	5	10	35	25	10	15	5	35	50	25	0	20
City of Onkaparinga	135	230	115	25	85	120	75	85	25	5	5	10	35	15	5	10	5	40	40	35	5	15
City of Marion	120	185	110	20	70	105	75	85	20	0	5	10	25	15	15	5	10	35	30	25	5	15
City of Salisbury	110	210	90	15	60	100	75	65	25	10	5	5	25	10	20	10	15	25	35	20	5	5
City of Playford	105	205	80	30	65	90	60	55	30	10	5	5	30	15	10	10	10	30	30	30	0	5
City of Mount Gambier	80	170	70	15	50	65	50	40	30	0	5	5	35	15	5	5	5	20	20	25	5	5
City of West Torrens	55	65	50	10	35	50	35	50	5	0	0	0	5	0	0	5	0	15	25	5	0	5
Port Pirie Regional Council	50	75	35	10	25	45	15	35	10	0	0	5	10	5	15	5	10	15	15	10	0	5

The first row as JSON

As it appears in data.json.

GET https://publicdata.au/d/sa-public-housing-new-households/latest/data.json
{
  "lga": "Adelaide Hills Council",
  "new_households_housed": 0.0,
  "number_of_household_members": 0.0,
  "households_in_greatest_need": 0.0,
  "aboriginal_households": 0.0,
  "households_with_person_with_disability": 0.0,
  "paying_less_than_market_rent": 0.0,
  "greatest_need_households_and_time_waited_was_under_6_months": 0.0,
  "single_person": 0.0,
  "single_parent_with_dependent_children": 0.0,
  "couple_only": 0.0,
  "couple_with_dependent_children": 0.0,
  "group_or_mixed_composition": 0.0,
  "has_child_under_15_years": 0.0,
  "has_child_under_5_years": 0.0,
  "has_adult_65_years_or_more": 0.0,
  "younger_person_main_tenant_under_25_years": 0.0,
  "aged_pension": 0.0,
  "disability_support_pension": 0.0,
  "job_seeker": 0.0,
  "other_government_payment": 0.0,
  "employee_cash_income": 0.0,
  "other_cash_income": 0.0,
  "income_not_stated": 0.0,
  "suppressed": []
}

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.

Try rows or aggregate for this dataset. The query builder needs JavaScript.

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.

2022-06-06
63 rows24 fieldsxlsx28452897bc62

versions.json · changes.json · history.tar.zst (8.6 KB, every version's Parquet and manifest)

Questions

How do I download New households housed in public housing by council area as a CSV file?

Open https://publicdata.au/d/sa-public-housing-new-households/latest/data.csv. It redirects to the newest dated version, which is https://publicdata.au/d/sa-public-housing-new-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 New households housed in public housing by council area in Excel?

Yes. https://publicdata.au/d/sa-public-housing-new-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-new-households/v/2022-06-06/data.csv.gz is the CSV at about a tenth of the size.

How often is New households housed in public housing 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 New households housed in public housing 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 New households housed in public housing by council area?

No. The publisher is South Australian Housing Trust, and its page is https://data.sa.gov.au/data/dataset/social-housing-new-households-housed. 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 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.xlsx so the change can be checked.

The publisher releases Public housing by council area, South Australia as 3 files at once, so all 3 tables here share a version date.

Attribution and citation

The licence requires the publisher's attribution. We ask that you also name publicdata.au and link to the version you used.

South Australian Housing Trust, Government of South Australia, Social Housing – new households housed, https://data.sa.gov.au/data/dataset/social-housing-new-households-housed, 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-new-households/v/2022-06-06/

The attribution alone is inside every file. Harvard is the author-date form a report or a brief asks for. Paste the HTML on a web page so the links carry.

Licence record

South Australian Housing Trust states the licence, CC BY 4.0, on its own page, which was read and recorded here on 1 October 2026.

Every fetch reads the licence again and stops when it has changed. The fetch that made version 2022-06-06 read it from data.sa.gov.au on 3 October 2026.

Also published on

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Kagglewith a starter notebook
ZenodoDOI 10.5281/zenodo.23116567

Each copy carries the same attribution and links back to this page.

For agents and tools

datapackage.jsonFrictionless data package pointing at the latest version
schema.jsonTable Schema for every field
schema.xlsxthe same field list as an Excel data dictionary
versions.jsonevery version with date, rows, fields and hash
changes.jsondiff for every consecutive pair
manifest.jsonwhere the bytes came from and when
Query APIfiltered rows and counts without a download
openapi.jsonOpenAPI 3.1 for this dataset's query paths
explore/charts and dashboards in the browser, shareable and embeddable
index.mdthis page as Markdown

This page carries a schema.org Dataset record and is listed in /.well-known/ard.json and /catalog.json.

Source

South Australian Housing Trust publishes this table on data.sa.gov.au. Questions about the content go to the publisher. Questions about the files here go to corrections.

Fetched 3 October 2026. Source SHA-256 28452897bc62683c…

Improve this dataset

This page is built from register/sa-public-housing-new-households.yaml on GitHub. Anyone can propose a fix to it, such as a clearer description or a field the publisher renamed, as a pull request.

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