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Suburb - Crime

Crime — rate per mesh block

GET/v1/suburbs/{suburb_name}/crime/by-mesh-block15¢ per call

Total crime rate for every mesh block in the suburb, keyed by ABS mesh-block code. Values are predicted incidents per 100,000 residents per year (see the payload's unit / definition keys).

Price: 15¢ per call.

Authorization

Request

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

Path parameters

suburb_namestringrequired

Query parameters

None — this endpoint accepts no query parameters. Call the path above with your bearer token and nothing else.

Responses

Successful Response

application/json
CrimeByMeshBlockfields returned to you
area_namestringalways returned

Suburb (SAL) name.

area_levelstringalways returned

Always 'suburb' for these endpoints.

metricstringalways returned

Always 'total_predicted_crime_rate' — what the mesh_blocks values measure.

unitstringalways returned

Unit of the mesh_blocks values — always 'predicted incidents per 100,000 residents per year'.

periodstringalways returned

Always 'annual' — the rates are yearly figures.

definitionstringalways returned

One-sentence definition of the metric, including model provenance.

mesh_blocksobjectalways returned

ABS 2021 mesh-block code → total crime rate: sum of all 8 modelled crime-type rates, predicted incidents per 100,000 residents per year.

GET/v1/suburbs/{suburb_name}/crime/by-mesh-block
cURL
curl --request GET \
  --url 'https://api.microburbs.com.au/v1/suburbs/Belmont%20North/crime/by-mesh-block' \
  --header 'Authorization: Bearer test'
Example Responses
{
  "data": {
    "area_level": "suburb",
    "area_name": "Belmont North",
    "definition": "Sum of the 8 modelled per-category crime rates for the mesh block (model trained on QLD Police mesh-block incidents averaged over 2020-2022, predicted for all Australian mesh blocks).",
    "mesh_blocks": {
      "10431160000": 12128.8,
      "10431170000": 1755.8,
      "10431200000": 2050.2
    },
    "metric": "total_predicted_crime_rate",
    "period": "annual",
    "unit": "predicted incidents per 100,000 residents per year"
  }
}
Successful Response200
application/json