Suburb - Demographics

Underclass drag

Welfare-dependency and public-housing shares with the suburb's underclass tier (High / Mid / Low) and the capital-growth impact associated with that tier. Regional and neighbour ranks for the same two metrics are served by /demographics/cohorts.

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/underclass-drag

Request

Base URL: https://api.microburbs.com.au
URL: https://api.microburbs.com.au/v1/suburbs/{suburb_name}/demographics/underclass-drag
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": {
    "growth_impact": {
      "band": "Middle 90%",
      "pct_per_year": 0
    },
    "n_microburbs": 77,
    "public_housing_basis": "microburb_downscale",
    "public_housing_pct": 6.6,
    "suburb": "Belmont North",
    "tier": "Mid",
    "welfare_dependency_pct": 16.2
  }
}

Changes

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