Privacy & data use

All the data AusBurbs presents is published Victorian Government open data about suburbs and councils — never personal or identifying information about individuals. AusBurbs stores no personal or identifying information about anyone who visits the site.

Every government dataset AusBurbs uses is published as open data under a Creative Commons Attribution licence (CC BY 4.0, and CC BY for the Crime Statistics Agency) through the Victorian Government DataVic Access Policy. This licence explicitly permits anyone — including an independent tool like this — to reuse and adapt the data, provided they attribute the source, link to it, and note where figures have been derived. AusBurbs does exactly this: every dataset is attributed and linked, and the raw figures are shown alongside any rates or grades we calculate.

The short factual “about” line at the top of each suburb is sourced from Wikipedia and reused under its Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) licence, with a link back to the source article wherever it appears. We keep only neutral, descriptive text. Weekly rent figures come from the Department of Families, Fairness & Housing, derived from Residential Tenancies Bond Authority bond lodgements, reused under CC BY 4.0. As with all data on AusBurbs, these describe places, not people.

AusBurbs does not use advertising trackers or third-party analytics cookies. Map tiles are loaded from OpenFreeMap (built on OpenStreetMap data), and search runs on our own server. Our hosting provider, Vercel, may keep standard, anonymous server request logs for security and reliability, but does not track individuals.

For anything about this site or its data, the original government datasets are linked on the data sources page, and the full grading method is on the methodology page.