Building approvals by Local Government Area, monthly, 2025-26, Australia

Dwellings and building jobs approved each month in 2025-26 in every Australian council area, by type of work and type of building, with their value, from the ABS.

This is the 2026-10-03 version of this dataset on publicdata.au, with 300,240 rows and 14 fields. The same version is kept at https://publicdata.au/d/au-building-approvals-by-lga-2025-26/v/2026-10-03/ in 9 formats, with every earlier version and a query API. Each Zenodo version of this record is one publicdata.au version.

The data is published by Australian Bureau of Statistics under CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The licence requires this attribution:

Australian Bureau of Statistics, Building Approvals by Local Government Area (LGA 2025) (BA_LGA2025), ABS Data Explorer, sourced 3 October 2026, https://explore.data.abs.gov.au/vis?df[ds]=ABS_ABS_TOPICS&df[id]=BA_LGA2025&df[ag]=ABS&df[vs]=1.0.0, licensed under CC BY 4.0.

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