Suburb - Demographics

Unemployment rate

Labour-force-weighted unemployment rate for the suburb against the pinned national median, plus the per-microburb shares behind it.

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/unemployment

Request

  • Base URL: https://api.microburbs.com.au
  • URL: https://api.microburbs.com.au/v1/suburbs/{suburb_name}/demographics/unemployment
  • 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": {
    "basis": "labour_force",
    "growth_impact": {
      "band": "Mid unemployment",
      "pct_per_year": 0
    },
    "microburbs": [
      {
        "mb": "10664530000",
        "street": "Marquis St",
        "unemployment_pct": 3.1
      }
    ],
    "n_microburbs": 71,
    "national_median_pct": 5.2,
    "suburb": "Belmont North",
    "unemployment_pct": 4.2,
    "vs_national": "below"
  }
}

Changes

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