Suburb - Demographics

Dominant ancestry per microburb

The dominant ancestry (and its share) in each of the suburb's microburbs, plus suburb-level ancestry shares. Pilot coverage.

Exact suburb identifier required. Exact ABS Suburb and Locality (SAL) name, e.g. Burwood (NSW) — many suburbs carry a state suffix. If starting from free text or an unverified bare name, first call GET /v1/geocode/suburb?q=<text>, then use the exact data[].area_name it returns. Suburb data endpoints do not guess a state or typo-correct names.

Price: 10¢ per call.

get/v1/suburbs/{suburb_name}/demographics/ancestry-map

Request

  • Base URL: https://api.microburbs.com.au
  • URL: https://api.microburbs.com.au/v1/suburbs/{suburb_name}/demographics/ancestry-map
  • Auth: HTTP bearer

Path parameters

suburb_namestring required
Example:Belmont North

Exact ABS Suburb and Locality (SAL) name, e.g. Burwood (NSW) — many suburbs carry a state suffix. If starting from free text or an unverified bare name, first call GET /v1/geocode/suburb?q=<text>, then use the exact data[].area_name it returns. Suburb data endpoints do not guess a state or typo-correct names.

Response

Successful Response

availableboolean nullable

false on no-data responses. Omitted on success — branch on data !== null if you want a single discriminator.

reasonstring nullable

Machine-readable slug naming the no-data condition (e.g. no_avm_for_GANSW704074813). Stable per endpoint. Omitted on success.

messagestring nullable

Human-readable explanation. Omitted on success.

Example response

{
  "data": {
    "microburbs": [
      {
        "dominant_ancestry": "Anglo-Australian",
        "mb": "10694860000",
        "persons": 118,
        "share_pct": 62.1,
        "street": "Edinburgh Rd"
      }
    ],
    "n_microburbs": 37,
    "suburb": "Castlecrag",
    "suburb_ancestry_shares": [
      {
        "ancestry": "Anglo-Australian",
        "pct": 58.4
      },
      {
        "ancestry": "Chinese",
        "pct": 12.9
      }
    ]
  }
}

Changes

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