National-Digital/vic-vehicle-registrations-by-postcode

Registered vehicles by postcode, make, year and fuel, Victoria

The number of vehicles registered in Victoria at the end of the quarter in each postcode, by make, vehicle class, year of manufacture and fuel type. About a million rows.

This is a copy of the 2026-07-14 version of this dataset on publicdata.au, where it has 1,156,741 rows and 6 fields. The same version is kept at https://publicdata.au/d/vic-vehicle-registrations-by-postcode/v/2026-07-14/ in 8 formats, with every earlier version and a query API.

Attribution

The data is published by Department of Transport and Planning under CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The licence requires this attribution:

Department of Transport and Planning, Victorian Government, Whole Fleet Vehicle Registration Snapshot by Postcode, sourced 3 October 2026, https://discover.data.vic.gov.au/dataset/whole-fleet-vehicle-registration-snapshot-by-postcode, licensed under CC BY 4.0.

To cite this version, including where it was serialised:

Department of Transport and Planning, Victorian Government, Whole Fleet Vehicle Registration Snapshot by Postcode, sourced 3 October 2026, https://discover.data.vic.gov.au/dataset/whole-fleet-vehicle-registration-snapshot-by-postcode, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Serialised and versioned by National Digital at publicdata.au, https://publicdata.au/d/vic-vehicle-registrations-by-postcode/v/2026-07-14/

This is an independent republication. The publisher has not endorsed this site.

Versions

publicdata.au keeps a new version each time the publisher changes the source file, and lists them all at https://publicdata.au/d/vic-vehicle-registrations-by-postcode/versions.json. This repository tags each version it holds as v<date>, so load_dataset("National-Digital/vic-vehicle-registrations-by-postcode", revision="v2026-07-14") always returns these rows.

Query it without downloading

The publicdata.au query API filters and totals the newest version of this dataset and needs no key:

https://publicdata.au/api/v1/datasets/vic-vehicle-registrations-by-postcode/rows?limit=10

Fields

Field	Type	Description
make	string	The register's make code, up to six characters.
vehicle_class	string	The register's vehicle class code.
year_of_manufacture	integer	NB_YEAR_MFC_VEH
postcode	string	The postcode of the registered address, kept as text.
fuel_type	string	The register's one letter fuel or engine code. Blank on some rows.
vehicles	integer	TOTAL1

publicdata.json beside the data names the version, licence, attribution and the SHA-256 of the publisher's file it was built from.