Derived from several government sources with some community curation. This version additionally attempts to canonicalise non-physical postcodes to assist with mapping.
Format
A data frame with 7 columns:
- postcode
A postal code
- locality
A suburb or locality
- state
NSW
- SA2_NAME_2021
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Flag indicating that this code appears to have been superseded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 5 March 2026.
The original dataset is released to the public domain.
Examples
set.seed(12345)
postcodes[sort(sample.int(nrow(postcodes), 5)),]
#> # A tibble: 5 × 7
#> postcode locality state SA2_NAME_2021 special old canonical
#> <chr> <chr> <chr> <chr> <lgl> <lgl> <chr>
#> 1 1118 SYDNEY NSW NA TRUE FALSE 2000
#> 2 2161 OLD GUILDFORD NSW Yennora Industrial FALSE FALSE 2161
#> 3 2164 WETHERILL PARK BC NSW Wetherill Park Indus… FALSE FALSE 2164
#> 4 2469 KIPPENDUFF NSW Casino Surrounds FALSE FALSE 2469
#> 5 2849 LEE CREEK NSW Wollangambe - Wollemi FALSE FALSE 2849