Local Government Areas

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Overview

Local Government Areas is a spatial representation of the administrative divisions that local governments are responsible for across Australia defined by State and Territory governments. Local Government Areas aggregates the representations unique to each jurisdiction into a consistent seamless representation of the local government areas of Australia.

Geoscape welcomes your feedback on the Local Government Areas product. We also publish regular product development updates on our website ( www.geoscape.com.au ).

Release Summary

This product was released to customers on 20 May 2024 with data extracted on 13 May 2024.

  • This release is a full national data population for Version 2.0 of the Local Government Areas product, described by the Local Government Areas Product Guide v2.0.

Any issues that have been identified for this release are described in the Issues section.

Change Notifications

Removal of the ‘Documents’ folder from data packages

Geoscape has moved product descriptions, guides and reports online to https://docs.geoscape.com.au From this release onwards, data packages will no longer include the ‘Documents’ folder.

Updates

New and Retired

New

There is one new LGA Locality record in this update.

lga_locality_pid

lga_pid

lga_name

locality_pid

locality_name

state

lgliPfjP1cT1lbQ

lga99e9c6a53cea

City of Marion

loc0308bef210d1

Seacliff

SA

Retired

There were no LGA’s retired this release.

Spatial Changes

Spatial changes (area) greater than 1 km2 are shown below:

lga_pid

lga_name

state

Difference_SQKM

Old_SQKM

New_SQKM

lga20efe678919a

Sorell Council

TAS

6

619

625

lga93f152136839

Barcaldine Regional

QLD

3

53,436

53,439

lga17db7019f3af

Carpentaria Shire

QLD

2

64,181

64,183

lgae3c62fc70808

Flinders Shire

QLD

1

41,229

41,230

lgac23ab624ca25

Richmond Shire

QLD

-1

26,585

26,584

lga0753be54f219

Croydon Shire

QLD

-2

29,511

29,509

lgae51387f515c9

Central Highlands Regional

QLD

-3

59,793

59,790

lgaae8336fce317

Clarence City Council

TAS

-7

410

403

Other Updates

There were no other updates.

Issues

New Issues

No new issues.

Resolved Issues

No resolved issues to note.

Known Issues

Un-enclosed gaps between Local Government Areas in NT

There are three un-enclosed gaps present in the Local Government Areas data in NT. These gaps are not valid and do not represent rivers. Below, the un-enclosed gaps can be seen between polygons when they are dissolved together.

Image of Un-enclosed gaps between LGAs in NT

SA coastline generalisation for The DC of Grant

Jurisdictional changes to the coastline geometry have resulted in polygon generalisation for ‘The DC of Grant’ LGA in South Australia. This has reduced the number of vertices in the polygons resulting in geometry differences and, in some scenarios, the creation of new polygons for the LGA. Below is an example where the previous Admin Boundaries LGA outline (blue) can be seen compared to the new Local Government Area product representation (red area).

Image of coastline generalisation in SA

Geoscape is currently investigating this generalisation with the SA jurisdiction.

Single VIC lga_locality linkage not made

The LGA named ‘Mount Buller Alpine Resort (Unincorporated)’ (lga_pid = lga69dad94a9718) does not link to the ’Mount Buller’ locality (locality_pid = ‘loc8688ba223de1’) record despite new rules which allow small LGAs that are contained within, or have large overlap with, a locality.

Future Considerations

This section outlines enhancements or changes under consideration, but not planned into a specific release. For further details on future initiatives, please contact Geoscape Support.

Annex A – Release Counts

Additional, retired and total Local Government Areas counts and the percent change to the previous release have been listed in the table below.

TABLE

ACT

NSW

NT

OT

QLD

SA

TAS

VIC

WA

TOTAL

lga

Additional

0

32

3

0

21

11

18

30

56

171

Retired

0

32

3

0

21

11

18

30

56

171

Updated

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

Total

0

198

800

3

209

173

533

92

201

2,209

% Change

0.00%

0.00%

0.00%

0.00%

0.00%

0.00%

0.00%

0.00%

0.00%

0.00%

lga_locality

Total

0

5,030

318

3

3,345

2,077

888

3,339

1,753

16,753