Wards - Geoscape Administrative Boundaries

Abstract Wards is a spatial representation of the gazetted ward districts, which are a subset of Local Government Area boundaries defined by the State and Territory governments of Australia. Wards represent distinct areas within a local government area that relate to the election of councillors for the related local government. Not all Local Government Areas consist of Wards. Wards aggregates the representations unique to each jurisdiction into a consistent, seamless representation of the ward boundaries across Australia. Currency Date Modified: May 2026 Modification Frequency: Quarterly Data Extent Coordinate Reference: Geocentric Datum of Australia 2020 | GDA2020 Spatial Extent North: -8° South: -45° East: 168° West: 96° Source Information The data was obtained from [data.gov.au], is also accessible through [Geoscape Administrative Boundaries - Geoscape] as of August 2025. The Australian Government has negotiated the release of Administrative Boundaries to the whole economy under an open [CCBY 4.0 licence]. Users must only use the data in ways that are consistent with the Australian Privacy Principles issued under the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth). Lineage Statement Wards is created through processing ward data sourced from Australia’s States and Territories. Source attributes are mapped and standardised to provide a coherent definition across the jurisdiction supplies, with associated geometry being cleaned and processed to output a topologically consistent layer of Australia’s ward boundaries at a national scale.Additional attributes have been generated and integrated by Geoscape to support the jurisdictional information as well as to provide convenience in the use and representation of the dataset. Geoscape Administrative Boundaries (comprised of Localities, Local Government Areas (LGAs), Wards, ABS Boundaries, Electoral Boundaries, State Boundaries, and Town Points) are created using a range of source data which is highlighted within their[ Data Copyright and Disclaimer.] The Digital Atlas of Australia team have published a Feature Service for Wards using the Geographic Coordinate System: Geocentric Datum of Australia 2020 (GDA2020). Wards are aggregated from State and Territory data to cover the National extent of Australia. Data Dictionary ────────────────┬─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── Attribute name │Description ────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── Ward Polygon PID│Unique persistent identifier for the Ward polygon. ────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── Ward PID │Persistent identifier for the Ward. ────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── Ward Name │The name of the Ward. ────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── LGA PID │The Persistent Identifier for the LGA that the Ward is related to. Not unique to a polygon. ────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── State │The abbreviated name of the State or Territory that the LGA spatially resides within. ────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── Date Created │The date the record is first introduced to the Geoscape product. ────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── Geometry │The geometry of the polygon. ────────────────┴─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── State - Description Table ───────────┬────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── Domain name│Description ───────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── NT │The data is located within the Northern Territory. ───────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── SA │The data is located within the state of South Australia. ───────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── VIC │The data is located within the state of Victoria. ───────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── WA │The data is located within the state of Western Australia. ───────────┴────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── Contact Department of Industry, Science and Resources (DISR), [data@industry.gov.au] For technical support contact [DigitalAtlas@ga.gov.au]