Australia's free suburb research workspace.
Everything you need to know about an Australian suburb — Census, SEIFA, property prices and rents, school ICSEA, LGA crime, transit and amenities — joined into one citation-ready profile. 16,000+ suburbs across all 8 states + territories. Free, no signup.
What's broken.
Australian buyers, agents, brokers and renters spend hours stitching together ABS Census, ACARA school data, Valuer-General sales and state rental bonds — often paying for tools that wrap free public datasets behind a paywall.
What we do.
SuburbIQ joins every public dataset to every Australian suburb into one searchable profile. Free for end-users, no signup, no paywall — every figure is citation-ready and links back to its government source.
What's inside.
Suburb profiles, all 16,000+
Every Australian suburb across 8 states and territories. Filter by state, price band, yield, income or population — sort and rank live.
Prices & rents over time
Multi-year time series for NSW + VIC suburbs (some series back to 1974). 1Y / 5Y / 10Y CAGR computed live, with sales and rental medians by suburb.
Schools + ICSEA
Every ACARA-registered school within a suburb — ICSEA score, sector, enrolments and year range. Map view colours schools by ICSEA.
Crime + safety
LGA-level crime mapped to each suburb across 5 states — VIC (CSA), NSW (BOCSAR), QLD (QPS), WA (WAPF), SA (SAPOL) — normalised and rate-adjusted to population.
SuburbIQ Score (0–100)
Composite score across five sub-scores: Lifestyle, Schools, Liveability (SEIFA), Value, and Investor. Weights are documented on every profile.
Find my fit
Answer 5 questions about budget, lifestyle and intent. We rank Australia and surface your top matches with reasons.
Compare up to 4 suburbs
Side-by-side compare across 18 metrics. Winners highlighted. Share with one click.
Curated lists
Hand-picked themes — yield, affordability, lifestyle, SEIFA, family, coastal — across every state + territory.
Vector-tile map
SA2 boundary, ACARA schools coloured by ICSEA, plus transit and amenity overlays. Pan, zoom, click for the underlying profile.
Watchlist + recents
Save shortlists and track recently-viewed suburbs without an account. Stored locally in your browser — never on our servers.
Three steps. One workspace.
Search or browse
Type a suburb name, browse by state, or take the 5-question Find-my-fit quiz.
Read the profile
Open any suburb to see its full citation-ready profile — Census, prices, rents, schools, crime, lifestyle.
Compare + decide
Add up to 4 suburbs to a side-by-side compare. Save your shortlist to a local watchlist.
Built for you if…
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Buyers researching where to live or invest
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Investors comparing yields and capital growth
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Movers narrowing down a shortlist
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Agents and brokers preparing client briefs
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Researchers and journalists needing citation-ready data
Frequently asked.
ABS Census 2021, SEIFA 2021, ACARA Schools (ICSEA, sector, enrolments), Valuer-General sales (NSW + VIC), state rental bond data (NSW + VIC), state crime data (VIC CSA, NSW BOCSAR, QLD QPS, WA WAPF, SA SAPOL), ABS Building Approvals, OpenStreetMap transit + amenities, and Clean Energy Regulator solar adoption.
16,000+ suburbs across all 8 Australian states and territories. Multi-year price + rent time series for NSW + VIC; some series go back to 1974.
Yes — completely free for end-users. No signup, no paywall, no credit card.
No. You can search, view profiles, and compare suburbs anonymously. Watchlist and recents are stored locally in your browser — they never touch our servers.
A composite 0–100 score across five sub-scores: Lifestyle (amenity density), Schools (ICSEA + count), Liveability (SEIFA), Value (yield × affordability), and Investor (yield + transit + amenity). The weights are documented on every suburb profile.
Some datasets only cover certain states (e.g. Valuer-General sales are public in NSW + VIC, paywalled in QLD + WA). Others suppress small-cell data (SA1/SA2 with too few records). Rather than fill blanks with bad averages, we show "—".
Profile data is citation-ready — every figure links back to its government source. CSV export is on the roadmap.
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