Neighbourhood Lens · WA
Perth.
Seven factor heatmaps across Perth's suburb areas — from socio-economic status through to school rank. Brackets and deciles are within-city, so each map reads on its own scale.
Seven heatmaps. One city.
Tap any thumbnail to jump to its full-size map.
Socio-economic.
Composite of the four ABS SEIFA indexes (IRSAD, IRSD, IEO, IER) averaged into one advantage score per SA2. Captures income + education + occupation + housing + economic resources together, smoothing out the quirks of any single index.
Mean of IRSAD + IRSD + IEO + IER deciles. Each SA2 contributes a 3×3 weighted grid of points so adjacent suburbs blend smoothly.
Income.
Median equivalised household income — adjusts for household size so single-occupant and four-person households are directly comparable. Ranked into 1-10 deciles within the state.
Brackets split this state's SA2s into 5 equal-population groups by median household income (equivalised, ABS Nov 2025).
Cultural diversity.
Composite of (a) the share of residents born overseas and (b) the share speaking a language other than English at home. Higher decile = more linguistically + culturally varied.
Mean of % born overseas + % speaking another language at home. Brackets split this state's SA2s into 5 equal-population groups.
Household composition.
Share of households owned outright or with a mortgage. Higher decile = higher owner-occupied rate. The hover popup also surfaces the full tenure mix (% outright / % mortgaged / % rented).
Owned outright + mortgaged, as a share of occupied dwellings. Low brackets = renter-heavy suburbs; high brackets = owner-heavy.
School rank.
Every ACARA-registered school in the state plotted as a heatmap point, weighted by its ICSEA percentile. Clusters of high-ICSEA schools burn red. Hover any point to see the school name + percentile.
One point per school. ICSEA is a national index, not a state rank — high-percentile clusters mean genuinely top-tier educational catchments.
Crime.
Reported-incident density per 1,000 residents per year. QLD uses QPS open data; NSW uses BOCSAR LGA-level reports. Other states will be added as their statistics agencies publish machine-readable feeds.
Crime heatmap
Mapbox heatmap of reported incidents over the most recent rolling 12 months, with intensity normalised by SA2 population.
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Neighbourhood Lens is an educational summary of public Australian government data at the suburb (SA2) level. Each heatmap shades polygons by a single metric so spatial patterns are visible at a glance. The maps are heuristics, not valuations or recommendations.
Granularity: SA2 boundaries from the ABS Australian Statistical Geography Standard (ASGS Edition 3, 2021). Suburb-level statistics are aggregated at SA2 because SA1 data is suppressed for privacy below population thresholds.
Crime coverage is currently complete for QLD and NSW. Other states are being added as their respective statistics agencies publish machine-readable feeds — VIC's Crime Statistics Agency quarterly tables are the next planned ingest.
School rank shows the average ICSEA percentile per SA2, computed from ACARA's annual public school list. Individual NAPLAN scores are not republished — link to the school's My School page is available via the SafeBuy property report.
For numbers you can rely on for a single property, use the SafeBuy property report, which surfaces the same data sources at lot precision plus zoning, flood, heritage, planning and financial calculators specific to the address.
Social support.
Density of recipients across age pension, disability support, JobSeeker, family tax benefit A, rent assistance, and health care card — most recent quarter, summed per SA2.
Sum of six payment categories (latest quarter). Retirement-heavy areas rank high without implying disadvantage.