Private-school students
/v1/suburbs/{suburb_name}/demographics/private-school10¢ per callShare of residents attending Catholic / Independent schools — suburb rollup plus the per-microburb shares behind it.
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.
private_school_pctnumberalways returnedShare of residents attending Catholic / Independent schools, as a percentage.
basisstringalways returnedHow private_school_pct was derived — 'microburb_downscale' (mesh-block share rollup, preferred) or 'census_count_over_population' (suburb census student count over mesh-block population).
growth_impactobjectalways returnedWhat a suburb's score on this indicator has historically gone together with, in capital-growth terms. ⚠️ **This is an association, not a prediction, and not a calculation from this suburb's own numbers.** The suburb is sorted into one of a few bands, and each band carries a fixed figure drawn from Microburbs' research across many suburbs. Two suburbs in the same band always return exactly the same `pct_per_year`. Do not add these up across indicators to build a growth forecast, and do not present the figure as something this suburb will do.
n_microburbsintegeralways returnedMesh blocks in the microburbs list.
microburbsarray of PrivateSchoolMicroburbalways returnedPer-mesh-block private-school shares (sparse cells dropped).
/v1/suburbs/{suburb_name}/demographics/private-schoolcurl --request GET \
--url 'https://api.microburbs.com.au/v1/suburbs/Belmont%20North/demographics/private-school' \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer test'{
"data": {
"basis": "microburb_downscale",
"growth_impact": {
"band": "Low private-school share",
"pct_per_year": -0.3
},
"microburbs": [
{
"mb": "10664530000",
"private_school_pct": 5.8,
"street": "Marquis St"
}
],
"n_microburbs": 71,
"private_school_pct": 4.7,
"suburb": "Belmont North"
}
}