postcodes {nswgeo}

Postal codes and localities of New South Wales.

Description

Derived from several government sources with some community curation. This version additionally attempts to canonicalise non-physical postcodes to assist with mapping.

Usage

postcodes

Format

A data frame with 7 columns:

postcode

A postal code

locality

A suburb or locality

state

NSW

SA2_NAME_2016

Statistical Area 2 name to assist with disambiguating localities with identical names

special

Flag indicating this is a post office box, mail distribution centre or other special postal code

old

Flag indicating that this code appears to have been superseded

canonical

The closest canonical postal code, e.g. mapping post office boxes to the main suburb's postal code

Source

Matthew Proctor. "Australian Postcodes", https://www.matthewproctor.com/australian_postcodes, accessed 6 February 2023.

The original dataset is released to the public domain.

Examples

set.seed(12345)
postcodes[sort(sample.int(nrow(postcodes), 5)),]