National-Digital/sa-registered-vehicles-by-postcode

Registered vehicles by owner postcode, make and body type, South Australia

The number of vehicles registered in South Australia at 30 June, counted by owner postcode, make, body type, cylinders and year of manufacture. Updated yearly.

This is a copy of the 2026-07-09 version of this dataset on publicdata.au, where it has 764,731 rows and 6 fields. The same version is kept at https://publicdata.au/d/sa-registered-vehicles-by-postcode/v/2026-07-09/ in 9 formats, with every earlier version and a query API.

Attribution

The data is published by Department for Infrastructure and Transport under CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The licence requires this attribution:

Department for Infrastructure and Transport, Government of South Australia, Registered Vehicles by Postcode, https://data.sa.gov.au/data/dataset/registered-vehicles-by-postcode, accessed 3 October 2026, licensed under CC BY 4.0.

To cite this version, including where it was serialised:

Department for Infrastructure and Transport, Government of South Australia, Registered Vehicles by Postcode, https://data.sa.gov.au/data/dataset/registered-vehicles-by-postcode, accessed 3 October 2026, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Serialised and versioned by National Digital at publicdata.au, https://publicdata.au/d/sa-registered-vehicles-by-postcode/v/2026-07-09/

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/sa-registered-vehicles-by-postcode/versions.json. This repository tags each version it holds as v<date>, so load_dataset("National-Digital/sa-registered-vehicles-by-postcode", revision="v2026-07-09") 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/sa-registered-vehicles-by-postcode/rows?limit=10

Fields

Field	Type	Description
owner_postcode	string	Owner PostCode
make	string	Vehicle Make
body_type	string	Vehicle Body Type
cylinders	string	As the publisher writes it, such as 4 Cylinders or Rotary, and blank for a vehicle without an engine.
year_of_manufacture	integer	Vehicle Year of Manufacture
vehicles	integer	Count of Vehicle ROIDs

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