Gazetteer · 10 dimensions

What we measure

Every number on this site belongs to one of these dimensions. Pick one to see which suburbs top it — nationally, then partitioned by state.

ABS G02 · 2,340 SA2s

Median household income (weekly)

#1 O'Malley, Australian Capital Territory · $4,476

Median total weekly household income across all households in the SA2. ABS-published median, not equivalised.

ABS G02 · 2,340 SA2s

Median age

#1 Tea Gardens - Hawks Nest, New South Wales · 65

Median age of all persons usually resident in the SA2 on Census night. ABS-published median.

ABS G37 · 2,339 SA2s

% of households renting

#1 Duntroon, Australian Capital Territory · 95.1%

Share of occupied private dwellings rented (all rental subcategories summed by ABS) over all tenure types including 'not stated'.

ABS G43 · 2,340 SA2s

Unemployment rate

#1 Kowanyama - Pormpuraaw, Queensland · 42.0%

ABS-published unemployment rate (unemployed persons / labour force). Excludes those not in the labour force by construction.

ABS G02 · 2,340 SA2s

Average persons per bedroom

#1 West Arnhem, Northern Territory · 1.90

ABS-published average persons per bedroom across occupied private dwellings. v0 overcrowding proxy; values >1.0 indicate more persons than bedrooms on average.

ABS G34 · 2,339 SA2s

% of dwellings with no motor vehicle

#1 Melbourne CBD - North, Victoria · 75.9%

Share of occupied private dwellings reporting zero motor vehicles. Surfaces both inner-CBD apartment SA2s and remote SA2s — same number, opposite causes.

ABS G07 · 2,340 SA2s

% Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander

#1 Yarrabah, Queensland · 95.9%

Share of persons identifying as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander, with the not-stated denominator correction applied per pipeline/README.md.

ABS G02 · 2,340 SA2s

Median rent (weekly)

#1 O'Malley, Australian Capital Territory · $975

ABS-published median weekly rent across renting households in the SA2.

ABS G29 · 2,339 SA2s

% single-parent families

#1 Yarrabah, Queensland · 42.6%

One-parent families as a share of all families (G29 family composition). Family-composition cells are subject to ABS small-count perturbation, so shares in low-population SA2s are noisy.

ABS G43 · 2,340 SA2s

% of adults with no post-school qualification

#1 Aurukun, Queensland · 89.5%

Persons 15+ holding none of the G43 non-school qualification levels, as a share of all persons 15+. 'Not stated' responses fall into this residual, so the figure runs slightly high.