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Microburbs Property Data API

LGA - Health

NDIS participants

GET/v1/lga/{lga_name}/health/ndis-participants5¢ per call

Number of people with an approved National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) plan living in each council area, state and Australia, every quarter from December 2021 to June 2026.

Coverage: About 510 council areas (councils with fewer than 11 participants are suppressed), all 8 states and territories, and Australia; quarterly from October 2021 (December 2021 quarter-end) to April 2026 (June 2026 quarter-end). Period is the first day of the quarter. Current to 2026-06-30. Full description, field list and method: /v1/datasets/ndis-participants.

Authorization

Bearer tokentest

Sandbox key test works for the allowlisted GNAF + SAL — no signup.

Request

The only values you send. Fields under Responses below are what comes back — you never pass those.

Path parameters

lga_namestringrequired

Council (LGA) name exactly as /v1/lga/list returns it, e.g. `Lake Macquarie`.

Query parameters

fieldsstringoptional

Comma-separated subset of: participants. Omit for all.

fromstringoptional

First period to include: 2020, 2020-Q3, 2020-07 or 2020-07-01.

tostringoptional

Last period to include, same formats as `from`.

Responses

Successful Response

application/json

DatasetValuesfields returned to you

datasetstringalways returned

Dataset slug; describe it with /v1/datasets/{slug}.

levelstringalways returned

suburb, lga or block.

areastringalways returned

Canonical name (or mesh-block code) of the area answered.

period_typestringalways returned

snapshot, year, financial_year, quarter or month.

as_ofstring · datealways returned

Date the dataset is current to. Values are never withheld for age; check this instead.

modelledbooleanalways returned

True when the figures are estimates from a model rather than counts or measurements.

fieldsarray of DatasetFieldSeriesalways returned

GET/v1/lga/{lga_name}/health/ndis-participants

cURL

curl --request GET \
  --url 'https://api.microburbs.com.au/v1/lga/Lake%20Macquarie/health/ndis-participants' \
  --header 'Authorization: Bearer test'

Example Responses

Show schema

{
  "data": {
    "dataset": "ndis-participants",
    "level": "lga",
    "area": "Lake Macquarie",
    "period_type": "quarter",
    "as_of": "2026-06-30",
    "modelled": false,
    "fields": [
      {
        "field": "participants",
        "name": "NDIS participants",
        "unit": "persons",
        "values": [
          {
            "period": "2025-Q4",
            "period_start": "2025-10-01",
            "value": 8565
          },
          {
            "period": "2026-Q1",
            "period_start": "2026-01-01",
            "value": 8729
          },
          {
            "period": "2026-Q2",
            "period_start": "2026-04-01",
            "value": 8766
          }
        ]
      }
    ]
  }
}

Successful Response200

application/json

About this dataset

About 510 council areas (councils with fewer than 11 participants are suppressed), all 8 states and territories, and Australia; quarterly from October 2021 (December 2021 quarter-end) to April 2026 (June 2026 quarter-end). Period is the first day of the quarter. Current to 2026-06-30; refreshed quarterly.

What it is

A quarterly count of active NDIS participants (people with an approved disability support plan) by where they live, for every council area, each state and territory, and Australia, from the December 2021 quarter to the June 2026 quarter (19 quarters).

What it shows

For each area and quarter, how many residents are NDIS participants at the end of the quarter. Period is the first day of the quarter, so the June 2026 quarter is 2026-04-01. Watch the series to see how fast the scheme is growing locally: nationally it rose from about 502,000 to about 782,000 participants over the window.

Why use it

The NDIS is the biggest driver of disability housing and support-worker demand in Australia. A large or fast-growing participant base points to demand for specialist disability and supported accommodation, accessible rentals, therapy and support businesses, and local care jobs. Use it to size a disability housing or care-services opportunity in a council area, compare regions, or add a disability-support panel to a council or state report.

How it is built

We take the scheme's published quarterly counts of active participants by the council area of their home address and match each area to our council names. Counts below 11 are suppressed at source for privacy, so very small councils return no value for some or all quarters rather than zero. Council areas follow one fixed boundary edition across all quarters, so the series is comparable over time; councils renamed or merged since then are matched to our current name where they are the same area. State and Australia figures add up every participant in the state, including the few whose address could not be placed in a council area, so the council areas of a state add up to slightly less than the state figure. Participants are counted once, at their home address; this is a count of people, not of funding.

Fields

Field	Unit	Description
`participants` NDIS participants	persons	Active NDIS participants (people with an approved plan) living in the area at the end of the quarter. Values under 11 are not published, so a missing quarter means fewer than 11, not zero.