National-Digital/au-modified-monash-model-by-suburb

Modified Monash Model 2023 remoteness by suburb and postcode, Australia

The Modified Monash Model 2023 remoteness category of every Australian suburb and locality, with its postal area and the area in each category, from the Department of Health, Disability and Ageing.

This is a copy of the 2025-11-06 version of this dataset on publicdata.au, where it has 15,999 rows and 7 fields. The same version is kept at https://publicdata.au/d/au-modified-monash-model-by-suburb/v/2025-11-06/ in 9 formats, with every earlier version and a query API.

Attribution

The data is published by Department of Health, Disability and Ageing under CC BY 2.5 AU, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/au/. The licence requires this attribution:

Department of Health, Disability and Ageing, Australian Government, Suburbs and Localities (SAL) 2021 - Postal Areas (POA) 2021 - Modified Monash Model 2023, sourced 3 October 2026, https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/suburbs-and-localities-sal-2021-postal-areas-poa-2021-modified-monash-model2023, licensed under CC BY 2.5 AU.

To cite this version, including where it was serialised:

Department of Health, Disability and Ageing, Australian Government, Suburbs and Localities (SAL) 2021 - Postal Areas (POA) 2021 - Modified Monash Model 2023, sourced 3 October 2026, https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/suburbs-and-localities-sal-2021-postal-areas-poa-2021-modified-monash-model2023, licensed under CC BY 2.5 AU. Serialised and versioned by National Digital at publicdata.au, https://publicdata.au/d/au-modified-monash-model-by-suburb/v/2025-11-06/

This is an independent republication. The publisher has not endorsed this site.

Versions

publicdata.au keeps a new version each time the publisher changes the source file, and lists them all at https://publicdata.au/d/au-modified-monash-model-by-suburb/versions.json. This repository tags each version it holds as v<date>, so load_dataset("National-Digital/au-modified-monash-model-by-suburb", revision="v2025-11-06") always returns these rows.

Query it without downloading

The publicdata.au query API filters and totals the newest version of this dataset and needs no key:

https://publicdata.au/api/v1/datasets/au-modified-monash-model-by-suburb/rows?limit=10

Fields

Field	Type	Description
sal_2021_code	string	SAL 2021 Code
sal_2021_name	string	SAL 2021 Name
sal_area_sqkm	number	SAL 2021 Area (km2)
poa_2021_code	integer	POA 2021 Code
mmm_2023	integer	MMM 2023
mmm_area_sqkm	number	MMM 2023 Area in SAL 2021 (km2)
state	string	State

publicdata.json beside the data names the version, licence, attribution and the SHA-256 of the publisher's file it was built from.