National-Digital/qld-births-by-mothers-postcode

Births registered by mother's postcode, Queensland, latest year

The number of births registered in Queensland in the newest published year for each postcode of the mother's usual residence, where the count is above 5.

This is a copy of the 2026-03-26 version of this dataset on publicdata.au, where it has 397 rows and 2 fields. The same version is kept at https://publicdata.au/d/qld-births-by-mothers-postcode/v/2026-03-26/ in 9 formats, with every earlier version and a query API.

Attribution

The data is published by Department of Justice under CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The licence requires this attribution:

Department of Justice, Queensland Government, Births by mothers postcode, sourced 3 October 2026, https://www.data.qld.gov.au/dataset/births-by-mothers-postcode, licensed under CC BY 4.0.

To cite this version, including where it was serialised:

Department of Justice, Queensland Government, Births by mothers postcode, sourced 3 October 2026, https://www.data.qld.gov.au/dataset/births-by-mothers-postcode, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Serialised and versioned by National Digital at publicdata.au, https://publicdata.au/d/qld-births-by-mothers-postcode/v/2026-03-26/

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/qld-births-by-mothers-postcode/versions.json. This repository tags each version it holds as v<date>, so load_dataset("National-Digital/qld-births-by-mothers-postcode", revision="v2026-03-26") 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/qld-births-by-mothers-postcode/rows?limit=10

Fields

Field	Type	Description
postcode	string	Postcode of the mother's usual residence. Kept as text.
births_registered	integer	Transactions

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