How to use Districts suburb profiles

Write the field name, the period and the source before you quote the number. Median sale and its one-year change are recorded-sale statistics with a sales count. Median rent on the profile is a suburb advertised median unless the line says otherwise. Gross yield on the profile is a suburb-level calculation from those two medians, not any property’s yield. Population on the profile is a Census figure with its observation date when loaded. It is not this quarter’s ERP. If a state rental-bond series is loaded, keep it on a third line. Bond medians and advertised medians are different tapes.

Census night 2021, QuickStats: 24,896 people; 13,043 private dwellings; 11,040 occupied; 1,594 unoccupied (12.6 per cent, not a vacancy rate); rented 48.1 per cent of occupied dwellings; apartments about 34 per cent. Those rows are official and dated. They are not Districts sale or rent medians.

A Districts Brunswick profile, if loaded, will show a later median sale, a sales count, an advertised median rent and a gross yield, each with its own window. Write them on a second block. If a field is not loaded, leave it unknown. Do not average the 2021 Census median rent ($441) with this year’s advertised median. See how to research a suburb. Pipeline dwellings, if a nearby extract is loaded on a property page in that suburb, are still not stock. Do not add them to the Census dwelling count.

The profile links to property pages in the suburb. Use it to decide where to look, then run the ten checks on the candidate. The suburb hazard picture does not exempt a lot from its own overlay. The suburb median is not the ask. A profile with an unavailable median and a loaded Census population is still a usable file. It is a people file, not a price file.

These mistakes put two dates on one line.

• Mixing Census tenure with this year’s advertised rent.
• Reading one-year median change as growth without the sales count and the mix.
• Treating unoccupied dwellings as vacant rentals.
• Comparing two profiles on unmatched periods or dwelling classes. See comparing suburbs.
• Stopping at the suburb and skipping the lot.

A profile with an unavailable median and a loaded Census population is still a usable file. It is a people file, not a price file.

It does not establish why households moved, what an employer will do, or the value of a lot. Districts does not hold industry mix on every profile. Where the Census geography and the listing suburb differ, the figure belongs to the geography it was counted on. Planning and rental series also differ by state and territory.

Match the SAL or SA2 code on the ABS table to the boundary the sales source used. Open the current ERP release if you need usual residents. Then open a property page. A profile is not a substitute for that page. If the names match and the codes do not, you are holding two places.