| --- |
| license: "cc-by-4.0" |
| pretty_name: "Driver's licences by postcode, age and sex, South Australia" |
| language: |
| - "en" |
| tags: |
| - "australia" |
| - "government" |
| - "open-data" |
| - "publicdata-au" |
| - "driver-s-licences" |
| - "licensed-drivers" |
| - "south-australia" |
| - "trlb05-drivers-licences" |
| size_categories: |
| - "10K<n<100K" |
| configs: |
| - config_name: "default" |
| data_files: "data.parquet" |
| --- |
| |
| # Driver's licences by postcode, age and sex, South Australia |
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| The number of current driver's licences in South Australia at the end of the newest quarter, by holder's postcode, age and sex. Updated quarterly. |
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| This is a copy of the 2026-07-09 version of this dataset on publicdata.au, where it has 46,248 rows and 4 fields. The same version is kept at https://publicdata.au/d/sa-drivers-licences-by-postcode/v/2026-07-09/ in 9 formats, with every earlier version and a query API. |
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| ## Attribution |
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| The data is published by Department for Infrastructure and Transport under CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The licence requires this attribution: |
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| > Department for Infrastructure and Transport, Government of South Australia, Drivers' Licences by postcode, age and sex, https://data.sa.gov.au/data/dataset/drivers-licences-by-postcode-age-and-sex, accessed 3 October 2026, licensed under CC BY 4.0. |
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| To cite this version, including where it was serialised: |
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| > Department for Infrastructure and Transport, Government of South Australia, Drivers' Licences by postcode, age and sex, https://data.sa.gov.au/data/dataset/drivers-licences-by-postcode-age-and-sex, accessed 3 October 2026, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Serialised and versioned by National Digital at publicdata.au, https://publicdata.au/d/sa-drivers-licences-by-postcode/v/2026-07-09/ |
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| This is an independent republication. The publisher has not endorsed this site. |
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| ## Versions |
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| publicdata.au keeps a new version each time the publisher changes the source file, and lists them all at https://publicdata.au/d/sa-drivers-licences-by-postcode/versions.json. This repository tags each version it holds as `v<date>`, so `load_dataset("National-Digital/sa-drivers-licences-by-postcode", revision="v2026-07-09")` always returns these rows. |
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| ## Query it without downloading |
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| The publicdata.au query API filters and totals the newest version of this dataset and needs no key: |
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| ``` |
| https://publicdata.au/api/v1/datasets/sa-drivers-licences-by-postcode/rows?limit=10 |
| ``` |
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| ## Fields |
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| | Field | Type | Description | |
| | --- | --- | --- | |
| | `postcode` | string | PostCode | |
| | `age` | integer | Age | |
| | `sex` | string | Sex | |
| | `licences` | integer | Total | |
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| `publicdata.json` beside the data names the version, licence, attribution and the SHA-256 of the publisher's file it was built from. |
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