Facts, calculations and unknown data: how to read a Districts figure

A value taken from a named source and shown as that source recorded it. Product examples: the sale price and date from the transaction record; officialParcelArea from the cadastre; zone.code from the planning layer; advertised rent from the listing. Districts may normalise the format. It does not adjust the value. A listing observation is a fact about the listing, not about the property.

Gross yield from a sourced weekly rent times 52, divided by a sourced price. floodShare from an official flood overlay intersected with the official parcel. A ratio of statutory land value to ask, where that series is loaded. The inputs stay visible. If an input is missing, the calculation is not invented.

Development optionality reads the loaded zone, overlays and parcel geometry. Rental supply pressure reads nearby comparable rentals and nearby residential projects. Price explanation asks whether constraints help explain the ask relative to land size. These are the checks most often misread as decisions. The label is there so you can disagree with the rule. The inputs are shown.

When a check cannot be produced, it is shown as unknown with the reason: layer not loaded, register not available, series not held. Unknown is the correct answer. It is not zero and not “no”. Estimating to fill the slot would produce a number that looks like the others and carries none of their support. See why Districts shows unknown data. Confidence on a check describes how directly the sources support the result: an official parcel intersected with an official overlay is high; a listing hint with no official layer is low; a count from a register whose coverage of the area is partial is moderate. Read it as how much to trust the slot, never as a risk rating.

These mistakes weigh a derived screen as if it were a title search.

• Reading optionality as an approval.
• Reading floodShare as a flood certificate.
• Reading a listing land size as the parcel.
• Reading unknown as clear.
• Skipping the methodology link on a figure you would pay for.

A source-data label does not certify that the registry keyed the sale correctly. A calculation does not make the inputs true. A derived indicator does not bind a council. Confidence on a check describes the evidence, not the property. Low confidence on a flood slot means the sources were weak, not that flooding is unlikely. Planning layers and registers also differ by state and territory, so the same label sits on different objects.

Each figure’s source line names the label, the source, the period and the date checked, and links to the methodology page for that kind of figure. When listing land size and officialParcelArea disagree, both are shown. The parcel record is the one to rely on. When a check is unknown, the reason sits beside it.

Follow the source line to the record. Follow the methodology link for the formula or rule. For anything material, take the figure to the verifier for that kind of fact. See how to verify. If two labelled figures disagree, keep both on the page and act on the stronger label: official parcel over listing area, official overlay over listing hint, recorded sale over ask. A derived indicator never outranks source data on the same question.