Local business mix
/v1/suburbs/{suburb_name}/demographics/business10¢ per callABN industry-mix pattern (Diverse / Professional-services-heavy / Mining-exposed / Low-commercial residential) plus the POI categories unusually common in the suburb, with named examples.
Exact suburb identifier required. Exact ABS Suburb and Locality (SAL) name, e.g. Burwood (NSW) — many suburbs carry a state suffix. If starting from free text or an unverified bare name, first call GET /v1/geocode/suburb?q=<text>, then use the exact data[].area_name it returns. Suburb data endpoints do not guess a state or typo-correct names.
Price: 10¢ per call.
Authorization
Request
The only values you send. Fields under Responses below are what comes back — you never pass those.
Path parameters
suburb_namestringrequiredExact ABS Suburb and Locality (SAL) name, e.g. `Burwood (NSW)` — many suburbs carry a state suffix. If starting from free text or an unverified bare name, first call `GET /v1/geocode/suburb?q=<text>`, then use the exact `data[].area_name` it returns. Suburb data endpoints do not guess a state or typo-correct names.
Query parameters
Responses
Successful Response
suburbstringalways returnedCanonical SAL name.
patternobjectalways returnedBusiness-mix pattern classification.
industriesarray of BusinessIndustryalways returnedTop ABN industries by share (up to 5).
distinctive_categoriesarray of DistinctiveCategoryalways returnedPOI categories unusually common here (up to 4).
busiest_street_footnotestringmay be nullBusiest-residential-street context sentence.
/v1/suburbs/{suburb_name}/demographics/businesscurl --request GET \
--url 'https://api.microburbs.com.au/v1/suburbs/Belmont%20North/demographics/business' \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer test'{
"data": {
"busiest_street_footnote": "On the busiest residential street, Croudace Bay Rd, the median house price sits at $890k.",
"distinctive_categories": [
{
"category": "Takeaway",
"count": 6,
"examples": [
"Golden Wok",
"Belmont North Pizza"
],
"times_more_common": 4.9
}
],
"industries": [
{
"industry": "trade_construction",
"label": "Trades & construction",
"n": 143,
"share": 0.21
}
],
"pattern": {
"headline": "Mostly residential — too few businesses to identify a market pattern.",
"label": "Low-commercial residential",
"subline": "The local business mix below shows what is distinctive in this suburb regardless."
},
"suburb": "Belmont North"
}
}