--- title: Current liquor licences by location, Victoria resource: https://publicdata.au/d/vic-liquor-licences/ publisher: Liquor Control Victoria licence: CC BY 4.0 licence_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ version: 2026-10-01 rows: 23036 fields: 17 source: https://www.vic.gov.au/sites/default/files/2026-09/Current_Victorian_Licences_By_Location_31_August_2026.xlsx source_sha256: b0a00e0846f430dc3eb2bc32fde3e4136caa9142c60d127e8c1419fbc34fb36e language: en-AU operator: National Digital not_endorsed: true --- # Current liquor licences by location, Victoria Every active Victorian liquor licence, about 23,000, with its category, trading hours, premises address, council area and coordinates, from a monthly stocktake. Published by Liquor Control Victoria under CC BY 4.0 and republished here in other formats, with cells typed and suppressed values made null. Liquor Control Victoria has not endorsed this site. Also called: Victorian liquor licences by location, Liquor licence lookup Victoria, List of licensed venues in Victoria, Liquor Control Victoria licence list. ## Download Latest version, redirects to `https://publicdata.au/d/vic-liquor-licences/v/2026-10-01/`: - csv: https://publicdata.au/d/vic-liquor-licences/latest/data.csv (6.0 MB) - xlsx: https://publicdata.au/d/vic-liquor-licences/latest/data.xlsx (2.9 MB) - json: https://publicdata.au/d/vic-liquor-licences/latest/data.json (12 MB) - geojson: https://publicdata.au/d/vic-liquor-licences/latest/data.geojson (14 MB) - parquet: https://publicdata.au/d/vic-liquor-licences/latest/data.parquet (1.6 MB) - sqlite: https://publicdata.au/d/vic-liquor-licences/latest/data.sqlite (5.9 MB) - duckdb: https://publicdata.au/d/vic-liquor-licences/latest/data.duckdb (2.0 MB) - gpkg: https://publicdata.au/d/vic-liquor-licences/latest/data.gpkg (7.5 MB) - geo.parquet: https://publicdata.au/d/vic-liquor-licences/latest/data.geo.parquet (1.6 MB) - ndjson: https://publicdata.au/d/vic-liquor-licences/latest/data.ndjson (12 MB) - arrow: https://publicdata.au/d/vic-liquor-licences/latest/data.arrow (2.3 MB) - csv.gz: https://publicdata.au/d/vic-liquor-licences/latest/data.csv.gz (1.4 MB) Pinned version 2026-10-01: `https://publicdata.au/d/vic-liquor-licences/v/2026-10-01/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/vic-liquor-licences/rows. Counts and sums: https://publicdata.au/api/v1/datasets/vic-liquor-licences/aggregate. - Rows: https://publicdata.au/api/v1/datasets/vic-liquor-licences/rows?limit=5 - Aggregate: https://publicdata.au/api/v1/datasets/vic-liquor-licences/aggregate?group=licence_category&metric=count 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/vic-liquor-licences/openapi.json ## Explore Charts and dashboards in the browser: https://publicdata.au/d/vic-liquor-licences/explore/. A dashboard can be shared as a link or embedded. ## Smaller files - by `council`: https://publicdata.au/d/vic-liquor-licences/v/2026-10-01/by/council/index.json lists 82 files ## Fields | field | type | publisher's header | note | |---|---|---|---| | `licence_number` | string | Licence Number | | | `licensee` | string | Licensee | | | `trading_as` | string | Trading As | | | `licence_category` | string | Licence Category | | | `trading_hours` | string | Trading Hours | | | `patron_capacity` | integer | Patron Capacity (if applicable) | Blank where the licence sets no capacity. | | `street_address` | string | Street Address | | | `suburb` | string | Suburb | | | `postcode` | string | Postcode | | | `council` | string | Council | | | `region` | string | Region | | | `metro_regional` | string | Metro/Regional | | | `latitude` | number | Latitude | | | `longitude` | number | Longitude | | | `postal_address` | string | Postal Address | | | `postal_suburb` | string | Postal Suburb | | | `postal_postcode` | string | Postal Postcode | | Key: `licence_number`. ## Versions - 2026-10-01: 23036 rows, 17 fields, sha256 b0a00e0846f4. https://publicdata.au/d/vic-liquor-licences/v/2026-10-01/ Machine-readable: https://publicdata.au/d/vic-liquor-licences/versions.json, https://publicdata.au/d/vic-liquor-licences/changes.json, https://publicdata.au/d/vic-liquor-licences/datapackage.json, https://publicdata.au/d/vic-liquor-licences/schema.json, https://publicdata.au/d/vic-liquor-licences/history.tar.zst ## Same subject, other publishers - [Liquor and gaming licences, South Australia, September 2018](https://publicdata.au/d/sa-liquor-gaming-licences-2018/) (SA) - [Poker machine expenditure by venue, Victoria, last three years](https://publicdata.au/d/vic-gaming-expenditure-by-venue/) (Vic) - [Traffic camera locations, ACT](https://publicdata.au/d/act-traffic-camera-locations/) (ACT) - [Public barbecues, ACT](https://publicdata.au/d/act-barbecues/) (ACT) - [Mobile phone detection camera sites, ACT](https://publicdata.au/d/act-mobile-distraction-camera-locations/) (ACT) - 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[BANYULE CITY COUNCIL](https://publicdata.au/d/vic-liquor-licences/in/banyule-city-council/): 273 rows - [BASS COAST SHIRE COUNCIL](https://publicdata.au/d/vic-liquor-licences/in/bass-coast-shire-council/): 213 rows - [BAW BAW SHIRE COUNCIL](https://publicdata.au/d/vic-liquor-licences/in/baw-baw-shire-council/): 186 rows - [BAYSIDE CITY COUNCIL](https://publicdata.au/d/vic-liquor-licences/in/bayside-city-council/): 385 rows - [BENALLA RURAL CITY COUNCIL](https://publicdata.au/d/vic-liquor-licences/in/benalla-rural-city-council/): 58 rows - [BOROONDARA CITY COUNCIL](https://publicdata.au/d/vic-liquor-licences/in/boroondara-city-council/): 612 rows - [BRIMBANK CITY COUNCIL](https://publicdata.au/d/vic-liquor-licences/in/brimbank-city-council/): 319 rows - [BULOKE SHIRE COUNCIL](https://publicdata.au/d/vic-liquor-licences/in/buloke-shire-council/): 52 rows - [CAMPASPE SHIRE COUNCIL](https://publicdata.au/d/vic-liquor-licences/in/campaspe-shire-council/): 190 rows - [CARDINIA SHIRE COUNCIL](https://publicdata.au/d/vic-liquor-licences/in/cardinia-shire-council/): 220 rows - [CASEY CITY COUNCIL](https://publicdata.au/d/vic-liquor-licences/in/casey-city-council/): 375 rows - [CENTRAL GOLDFIELDS SHIRE COUNCIL](https://publicdata.au/d/vic-liquor-licences/in/central-goldfields-shire-council/): 52 rows - [COLAC-OTWAY SHIRE COUNCIL](https://publicdata.au/d/vic-liquor-licences/in/colac-otway-shire-council/): 136 rows - [CORANGAMITE SHIRE COUNCIL](https://publicdata.au/d/vic-liquor-licences/in/corangamite-shire-council/): 98 rows - [DAREBIN CITY COUNCIL](https://publicdata.au/d/vic-liquor-licences/in/darebin-city-council/): 543 rows - [EAST GIPPSLAND SHIRE COUNCIL](https://publicdata.au/d/vic-liquor-licences/in/east-gippsland-shire-council/): 237 rows - [FRANKSTON CITY COUNCIL](https://publicdata.au/d/vic-liquor-licences/in/frankston-city-council/): 272 rows - [GANNAWARRA SHIRE COUNCIL](https://publicdata.au/d/vic-liquor-licences/in/gannawarra-shire-council/): 49 rows - [GLEN EIRA CITY COUNCIL](https://publicdata.au/d/vic-liquor-licences/in/glen-eira-city-council/): 419 rows - [GLENELG SHIRE COUNCIL](https://publicdata.au/d/vic-liquor-licences/in/glenelg-shire-council/): 82 rows - [GOLDEN PLAINS SHIRE COUNCIL](https://publicdata.au/d/vic-liquor-licences/in/golden-plains-shire-council/): 62 rows - [GREATER BENDIGO CITY COUNCIL](https://publicdata.au/d/vic-liquor-licences/in/greater-bendigo-city-council/): 410 rows - [GREATER DANDENONG CITY COUNCIL](https://publicdata.au/d/vic-liquor-licences/in/greater-dandenong-city-council/): 305 rows - [GREATER GEELONG CITY COUNCIL](https://publicdata.au/d/vic-liquor-licences/in/greater-geelong-city-council/): 907 rows - [GREATER SHEPPARTON CITY COUNCIL](https://publicdata.au/d/vic-liquor-licences/in/greater-shepparton-city-council/): 225 rows - [HEPBURN SHIRE COUNCIL](https://publicdata.au/d/vic-liquor-licences/in/hepburn-shire-council/): 155 rows - [HINDMARSH SHIRE COUNCIL](https://publicdata.au/d/vic-liquor-licences/in/hindmarsh-shire-council/): 38 rows - [HOBSONS BAY CITY COUNCIL](https://publicdata.au/d/vic-liquor-licences/in/hobsons-bay-city-council/): 268 rows - [HORSHAM RURAL CITY COUNCIL](https://publicdata.au/d/vic-liquor-licences/in/horsham-rural-city-council/): 90 rows - [HUME CITY COUNCIL](https://publicdata.au/d/vic-liquor-licences/in/hume-city-council/): 361 rows - [INDIGO SHIRE COUNCIL](https://publicdata.au/d/vic-liquor-licences/in/indigo-shire-council/): 162 rows - [INTERSTATE](https://publicdata.au/d/vic-liquor-licences/in/interstate/): 1 rows - [KINGSTON CITY COUNCIL](https://publicdata.au/d/vic-liquor-licences/in/kingston-city-council/): 488 rows - [KNOX CITY COUNCIL](https://publicdata.au/d/vic-liquor-licences/in/knox-city-council/): 360 rows - [LATROBE CITY COUNCIL](https://publicdata.au/d/vic-liquor-licences/in/latrobe-city-council/): 220 rows - [LODDON SHIRE COUNCIL](https://publicdata.au/d/vic-liquor-licences/in/loddon-shire-council/): 58 rows - [MACEDON RANGES SHIRE COUNCIL](https://publicdata.au/d/vic-liquor-licences/in/macedon-ranges-shire-council/): 248 rows - [MANNINGHAM CITY COUNCIL](https://publicdata.au/d/vic-liquor-licences/in/manningham-city-council/): 268 rows - [MANSFIELD SHIRE COUNCIL](https://publicdata.au/d/vic-liquor-licences/in/mansfield-shire-council/): 122 rows - [MARIBYRNONG CITY COUNCIL](https://publicdata.au/d/vic-liquor-licences/in/maribyrnong-city-council/): 345 rows - [MAROONDAH CITY COUNCIL](https://publicdata.au/d/vic-liquor-licences/in/maroondah-city-council/): 263 rows - [MELBOURNE CITY COUNCIL](https://publicdata.au/d/vic-liquor-licences/in/melbourne-city-council/): 2,126 rows - [MELTON CITY COUNCIL](https://publicdata.au/d/vic-liquor-licences/in/melton-city-council/): 217 rows - [MERRI-BEK CITY COUNCIL](https://publicdata.au/d/vic-liquor-licences/in/merri-bek-city-council/): 538 rows - [MILDURA RURAL CITY COUNCIL](https://publicdata.au/d/vic-liquor-licences/in/mildura-rural-city-council/): 223 rows - [MITCHELL SHIRE COUNCIL](https://publicdata.au/d/vic-liquor-licences/in/mitchell-shire-council/): 133 rows - [MOIRA SHIRE COUNCIL](https://publicdata.au/d/vic-liquor-licences/in/moira-shire-council/): 138 rows - [MONASH CITY COUNCIL](https://publicdata.au/d/vic-liquor-licences/in/monash-city-council/): 490 rows - [MOONEE VALLEY CITY COUNCIL](https://publicdata.au/d/vic-liquor-licences/in/moonee-valley-city-council/): 395 rows - [MOORABOOL SHIRE COUNCIL](https://publicdata.au/d/vic-liquor-licences/in/moorabool-shire-council/): 90 rows - [MORNINGTON PENINSULA SHIRE COUNCIL](https://publicdata.au/d/vic-liquor-licences/in/mornington-peninsula-shire-council/): 780 rows - [MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE COUNCIL](https://publicdata.au/d/vic-liquor-licences/in/mount-alexander-shire-council/): 137 rows - [MOYNE SHIRE COUNCIL](https://publicdata.au/d/vic-liquor-licences/in/moyne-shire-council/): 105 rows - [MURRINDINDI SHIRE COUNCIL](https://publicdata.au/d/vic-liquor-licences/in/murrindindi-shire-council/): 111 rows - [NILLUMBIK SHIRE COUNCIL](https://publicdata.au/d/vic-liquor-licences/in/nillumbik-shire-council/): 154 rows - [NORTHERN GRAMPIANS SHIRE COUNCIL](https://publicdata.au/d/vic-liquor-licences/in/northern-grampians-shire-council/): 78 rows - [NOT APPLICABLE](https://publicdata.au/d/vic-liquor-licences/in/not-applicable/): 250 rows - [PORT PHILLIP CITY COUNCIL](https://publicdata.au/d/vic-liquor-licences/in/port-phillip-city-council/): 722 rows - [PYRENEES SHIRE COUNCIL](https://publicdata.au/d/vic-liquor-licences/in/pyrenees-shire-council/): 66 rows - [QUEENSCLIFFE BOROUGH COUNCIL](https://publicdata.au/d/vic-liquor-licences/in/queenscliffe-borough-council/): 50 rows - [SOUTH GIPPSLAND SHIRE COUNCIL](https://publicdata.au/d/vic-liquor-licences/in/south-gippsland-shire-council/): 157 rows - [SOUTHERN GRAMPIANS SHIRE COUNCIL](https://publicdata.au/d/vic-liquor-licences/in/southern-grampians-shire-council/): 102 rows - [STONNINGTON CITY COUNCIL](https://publicdata.au/d/vic-liquor-licences/in/stonnington-city-council/): 724 rows - [STRATHBOGIE SHIRE COUNCIL](https://publicdata.au/d/vic-liquor-licences/in/strathbogie-shire-council/): 95 rows - [SURF COAST SHIRE COUNCIL](https://publicdata.au/d/vic-liquor-licences/in/surf-coast-shire-council/): 209 rows - [SWAN HILL RURAL CITY COUNCIL](https://publicdata.au/d/vic-liquor-licences/in/swan-hill-rural-city-council/): 97 rows - [TOWONG SHIRE COUNCIL](https://publicdata.au/d/vic-liquor-licences/in/towong-shire-council/): 44 rows - [WANGARATTA RURAL CITY COUNCIL](https://publicdata.au/d/vic-liquor-licences/in/wangaratta-rural-city-council/): 159 rows - [WARRNAMBOOL CITY COUNCIL](https://publicdata.au/d/vic-liquor-licences/in/warrnambool-city-council/): 130 rows - [WELLINGTON SHIRE COUNCIL](https://publicdata.au/d/vic-liquor-licences/in/wellington-shire-council/): 190 rows - [WEST WIMMERA SHIRE COUNCIL](https://publicdata.au/d/vic-liquor-licences/in/west-wimmera-shire-council/): 30 rows - [WHITEHORSE CITY COUNCIL](https://publicdata.au/d/vic-liquor-licences/in/whitehorse-city-council/): 398 rows - [WHITTLESEA CITY COUNCIL](https://publicdata.au/d/vic-liquor-licences/in/whittlesea-city-council/): 313 rows - [WODONGA CITY COUNCIL](https://publicdata.au/d/vic-liquor-licences/in/wodonga-city-council/): 94 rows - [WYNDHAM CITY COUNCIL](https://publicdata.au/d/vic-liquor-licences/in/wyndham-city-council/): 337 rows - [YARRA CITY COUNCIL](https://publicdata.au/d/vic-liquor-licences/in/yarra-city-council/): 911 rows - [YARRA RANGES SHIRE COUNCIL](https://publicdata.au/d/vic-liquor-licences/in/yarra-ranges-shire-council/): 615 rows - [YARRIAMBIACK SHIRE COUNCIL](https://publicdata.au/d/vic-liquor-licences/in/yarriambiack-shire-council/): 44 rows ## Attribution and citation Liquor Control Victoria, Victorian Government, Victorian liquor licences by location, sourced 3 October 2026, https://discover.data.vic.gov.au/dataset/victorian-liquor-licences-by-location, 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: Liquor Control Victoria, Victorian Government, Victorian liquor licences by location, sourced 3 October 2026, https://discover.data.vic.gov.au/dataset/victorian-liquor-licences-by-location, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Serialised and versioned by National Digital at publicdata.au, https://publicdata.au/d/vic-liquor-licences/v/2026-10-01/ Harvard: Liquor Control Victoria (2026) Current liquor licences by location, Victoria, version 2026-10-01 [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/vic-liquor-licences/v/2026-10-01/ Markdown: Data: [Current liquor licences by location, Victoria](https://discover.data.vic.gov.au/dataset/victorian-liquor-licences-by-location), Liquor Control Victoria, [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), sourced 3 October 2026. Files: [publicdata.au](https://publicdata.au/d/vic-liquor-licences/v/2026-10-01/) by [National Digital](https://nationaldigital.com.au/). ## Questions ### How do I download Current liquor licences by location as a CSV file? Open https://publicdata.au/d/vic-liquor-licences/latest/data.csv. It redirects to the newest dated version, which is https://publicdata.au/d/vic-liquor-licences/v/2026-10-01/data.csv today. The same path serves Excel, JSON, GeoJSON, Parquet, SQLite, DuckDB, GeoPackage, GeoParquet, NDJSON, Arrow. A dated URL never changes, so use it when the file must stay the same. ### Can I open Current liquor licences by location in Excel? Yes. https://publicdata.au/d/vic-liquor-licences/v/2026-10-01/data.xlsx is a workbook with the 23,036 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/vic-liquor-licences/v/2026-10-01/data.csv.gz is the CSV at about a tenth of the size. ### How often is Current liquor licences by location updated? Liquor Control Victoria releases it monthly. This site checks the portal every week and adds a dated version when the file changes. ### Can I use Current liquor licences by location 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 Current liquor licences by location? No. The publisher is Liquor Control Victoria, and its page is https://discover.data.vic.gov.au/dataset/victorian-liquor-licences-by-location. 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. ### How do I get only the rows for one council? Every version has one JSON file per value of council, 82 files in the current version, listed with row counts at https://publicdata.au/d/vic-liquor-licences/v/2026-10-01/by/council/index.json. For example https://publicdata.au/d/vic-liquor-licences/v/2026-10-01/by/council/melbourne-city-council.json holds the 2,126 rows where council is MELBOURNE CITY COUNCIL. A GeoJSON file sits beside each one. ### What coordinate system does Current liquor licences by location use? The publisher states no datum for its latitude and longitude, so they are read as WGS84 (EPSG:4326), which differs from GDA2020 by under two metres. The GeoJSON file uses the same coordinates, which is what GeoJSON expects. ### What does each row hold? One liquor licence active at the end of the month the release names, with its number, the licensee and trading name, the licence category, trading hours, patron capacity where one applies, the premises address, council area, region and coordinates, and the licensee's postal address. ### How accurate are the addresses and coordinates? The publisher states that addresses are as given on the licence application, need not follow the Australian address standard and may be outdated or inaccurate. About one licence in twenty has no coordinates, and some licences, such as remote sellers, have no premises the public can visit. ### How often does it change? Liquor Control Victoria publishes a new stocktake of every active licence each month. Each version here is one month's stocktake, so a licence that has lapsed is absent from later versions. ## 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/vic-liquor-licences.yaml](https://github.com/National-Digital/publicdata.au/blob/main/register/vic-liquor-licences.yaml) on GitHub, and a fix to it is welcome as a pull request. https://publicdata.au/contribute/ explains how.