About

About Public IQ

Free, public-data-backed
suburb intelligence for Australia.

Public IQ is built by the team behind brokeriq. We aggregate Australian Bureau of Statistics, ACARA, Valuer-General, state crime, public-transport and rental data into one citation-ready profile per suburb — free, no signup required.

Why we built this

Public data should be one click away.

Australian buyers, agents and brokers spend hours stitching together ABS Census, ACARA school ICSEA, Valuer-General sales and state rental bond data — paying for tools that wrap free public datasets behind paywalls. Public IQ is the alternative: every public dataset, joined to every suburb, free forever for end-users. We pay for the infrastructure because brokeriq pays us when buyers eventually plan a home loan.

What you can do here

Explore every Australian suburb

16,000+ suburbs across all 8 states + territories. Filter by state, price, yield, income, population — sort and rank live.

See how prices + rents have moved

Multi-year time series for NSW + VIC suburbs (some series back to 1974). 1Y, 5Y, 10Y CAGR computed live.

Map with school + boundary layers

Vector-tile map with the SA2 boundary, ACARA schools coloured by ICSEA, transit and amenity overlays.

Crime + safety per LGA

VIC CSA, NSW BOCSAR, QLD QPS, WA WAPF and SA SAPOL data normalised and rate-adjusted to population.

School quality + sector mix

Every ACARA-registered school within a suburb, with ICSEA, sector, enrolments and year range.

Capacity calculator + brokeriq

See which suburbs sit inside your borrowing envelope. One-click handoff to a free broker via brokeriq.

Where the data comes from

All data on Public IQ is sourced from Australian government and statutory authority releases under their respective open-data licences. We never re-license or paywall public data — every figure is citation-ready.

Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS)
Census 2021, SEIFA 2021, Building Approvals, Population Projections
CC BY 4.0
ACARA
School Profile + Location, ICSEA, sector, enrolments
CC BY 4.0
NSW Valuer-General + LRS
Property sales by suburb (back to 1974 in some areas)
CC BY 4.0 (NSW Open Data)
VIC Department of Treasury & Finance
Property sales (Valuer-General)
CC BY 4.0 (DataVic)
VIC Department of Families, Fairness & Housing
Quarterly rental bond data by suburb
CC BY 4.0 (DataVic)
NSW Department of Communities & Justice
Rent & Sales Report (rental medians)
CC BY 4.0 (NSW Open Data)
Crime Statistics Agency Victoria
LGA-level crime by offence division (CSA)
CC BY 4.0
NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics & Research
LGA-level recorded crime (BOCSAR)
CC BY 4.0
Queensland Police Service
LGA-level crime statistics (QPS)
CC BY 4.0 (QLD Open Data)
WA Police Force
District-level crime mapped to LGA (WAPF)
CC BY 4.0 (data.wa.gov.au)
South Australia Police
LGA-level crime statistics (SAPOL)
CC BY 4.0 (data.sa.gov.au)
State public-transport authorities
GTFS feeds — bus, train, tram, ferry stops by LGA
Per-state open-data licences
Clean Energy Regulator
Small-scale solar PV installations
CC BY 4.0
Australian Business Register (ABN Lookup)
Active ABNs by postcode
CC BY 4.0
OpenStreetMap + Google Places
Amenity counts, ratings, walking distances
ODbL + Google ToS
OpenFreeMap (OpenMapTiles + OSM)
Map base tiles
CC BY 4.0 + ODbL

Each suburb profile cites its sources inline. If a number looks off, tell us — we audit against the originating agency.

Who Public IQ is for

Buyers + investors

Compare suburbs side-by-side, run capacity scenarios, save shortlists, get cross-device sync — all free, all anonymous unless you sign in.

Buyers agents

Print-ready suburb reports, branded compare PDFs, private notes per suburb, watchlist sharing via URL. Get in touch for a custom plan.

Mortgage brokers

Pre-fill borrowing capacity scenarios across suburbs, share filtered shortlists with clients, hand off context-rich leads to brokeriq.

How we make money

We're free for end-users. Brokers pay us, never you.

Public IQ is operated by the team behind brokeriq, a free mortgage-broker matching service for Australian home buyers. When you click "Plan a home loan with brokeriq" from a suburb profile, you're handed off to brokeriq with the suburb context, where you can opt in to be matched with a local mortgage broker. Brokers pay brokeriq a referral fee if a loan is settled — that pays for the public-data infrastructure here.

We never sell your data. We never include sponsored suburbs in our rankings. We never paywall a number that's public.

See our Privacy Policy and Terms for the legal detail.

The company

Domato AI Pty Ltd

Registered name
Domato AI Pty Ltd
ABN
94 695 794 346
Country of registration
Australia
Hosting
Microsoft Azure (Australia East)

Get in touch

Council, agent, broker or curious?

We read every enquiry — usually reply within one business day.

Contact us