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What the registers show, in aggregate

Our reports read government registers one address at a time. These analyses read them whole. Everything here is published under CC BY 4.0 with the method stated in full; journalists are welcome to the underlying working.

At least 500 new homes were proposed on mapped flood planning land in NSW in the last year

187 applications in twelve months, and more than half of them are in one council area, Clarence Valley.

More than 7,300 pieces of land in NSW and Victoria are reserved for future roads and public works

The reservations cluster in the growth corridors where first home buyers are looking, led by Hawkesbury, Penrith, Casey and Wyndham.

Seven orders added, ten removed: exactly what changed on the NSW serious defects register between 16 July and 14 August.

More than 5,500 NSW apartments sit in buildings named on the serious defects register

2026 is already the register's biggest year, and the postcode with the most orders is not in Sydney.

NSW property crime by suburb: the highest and lowest recorded rates

Five property offences combined into one rate per 100,000 residents, ranked, with every suburb linked to its own data page.