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Microburbs Property Data API
Suburb - Development

Average council rates

GET/v1/suburbs/{suburb_name}/development/council-rates5¢ per call

Average annual residential council rate for the suburb's LGA.

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: 5¢ per call.

Authorization

Request

The only values you send. Fields under Responses below are what comes back — you never pass those.

Path parameters

suburb_namestringrequired

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.

Query parameters

None — this endpoint accepts no query parameters. Call the path above with your bearer token and nothing else.

Responses

Successful Response

application/json
SuburbCouncilRatesfields returned to you
area_namestringalways returned

Suburb (SAL) name.

area_levelstringalways returned

Always 'suburb'.

lgastringalways returned

Local government area the suburb belongs to.

avg_rate_aud_yrintegeralways returned

Average annual residential rate (AUD per year).

data_sourcestringmay be null

Provenance of the rate figure (e.g. 'NSW_OLG_AVG').

GET/v1/suburbs/{suburb_name}/development/council-rates
cURL
curl --request GET \
  --url 'https://api.microburbs.com.au/v1/suburbs/Belmont%20North/development/council-rates' \
  --header 'Authorization: Bearer test'
Example Responses
{
  "data": {
    "area_name": "Belmont North",
    "area_level": "suburb",
    "lga": "Lake Macquarie",
    "avg_rate_aud_yr": 1584,
    "data_source": "NSW_OLG_AVG"
  }
}
Successful Response200
application/json