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Microburbs Property Data API

Suburb - Transport

Public transport access and service

GET/v1/suburbs/{suburb_name}/transport/public-transport5¢ per call

Stops by mode, weekday service frequency, routes, and how many addresses are within a short walk of a stop or station, for suburbs in Victoria, South East Queensland, Perth, Adelaide, Tasmania and Darwin.

Coverage: Victoria (trains, trams, buses, coaches), South East Queensland, the Perth region and the towns its bus network serves, Adelaide and its regional services, Tasmania, and Darwin. Not covered: New South Wales, the ACT, the rest of Queensland and the Northern Territory outside Darwin. A suburb is included when it is in a covered state and within 25 km of a stop; inside that area a suburb with no service shows real zeros. Current to 2026-11-06. Full description, field list and method: /v1/datasets/public-transport.

Exact suburb identifier required. Exact official suburb name (SAL), 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.

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

suburb_namestringrequired

Exact official suburb name (SAL), 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

fieldsstringoptional

Comma-separated subset of: stops_total, stops_bus, stops_train, stops_tram, stops_ferry, weekday_trips_total, weekday_trips_bus, weekday_trips_train, weekday_trips_tram, weekday_trips_ferry, peak_trips_per_hour_busiest_stop, routes_total, routes_bus, routes_train, routes_tram, routes_ferry, share_addr_400m_stop_pct, share_addr_800m_station_pct, median_addr_distance_to_stop_m, nearest_train_station_m. 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/suburbs/{suburb_name}/transport/public-transport

cURL

curl --request GET \
  --url 'https://api.microburbs.com.au/v1/suburbs/Belmont%20North/transport/public-transport' \
  --header 'Authorization: Bearer test'

Example Responses

Show schema

{
  "data": {
    "dataset": "public-transport",
    "level": "suburb",
    "area": "St Kilda (Vic.)",
    "period_type": "snapshot",
    "as_of": "2026-11-06",
    "modelled": false,
    "fields": [
      {
        "field": "stops_total",
        "name": "Stops served",
        "unit": "count",
        "values": [
          {
            "period": "2026-11-06",
            "period_start": "2026-11-06",
            "value": 96
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "field": "stops_bus",
        "name": "Bus and coach stops",
        "unit": "count",
        "values": [
          {
            "period": "2026-11-06",
            "period_start": "2026-11-06",
            "value": 37
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "field": "stops_train",
        "name": "Train stations",
        "unit": "count",
        "values": [
          {
            "period": "2026-11-06",
            "period_start": "2026-11-06",
            "value": 0
          }
        ]
      }
    ]
  }
}

Successful Response200

application/json

About this dataset

Victoria (trains, trams, buses, coaches), South East Queensland, the Perth region and the towns its bus network serves, Adelaide and its regional services, Tasmania, and Darwin. Not covered: New South Wales, the ACT, the rest of Queensland and the Northern Territory outside Darwin. A suburb is included when it is in a covered state and within 25 km of a stop; inside that area a suburb with no service shows real zeros. Current to 2026-11-06; refreshed quarterly.

What it is

A public transport profile for each suburb, built from the published timetables of each state's transport department: how many bus, train, tram and ferry stops it has, how often vehicles actually call on a typical weekday, how many routes serve it, and how close its residents live to a stop or a train station.

What it shows

Stop counts by mode; total weekday vehicle calls, in total and by mode; the peak-hour frequency at the suburb's busiest stop (7 to 9 am); the number of distinct routes by mode; the share of the suburb's addresses within 400 m of any stop and within 800 m of a train station; the typical distance from an address to its nearest stop; and the distance from the suburb centre to the nearest train station.

Why use it

Stop counts alone mislead: a suburb can have 80 bus stops and one bus an hour. Service volume and peak frequency tell you whether public transport is genuinely usable, which is what drives car dependence, rental demand near stations and the walkability scores in a property report. Use it for a transport score in a suburb or property app, for filtering suburbs by 'a train within a 10 minute walk', or to compare commuter belts.

How it is built

We read each state's timetable, pick one typical weekday (a mid-week day in November to December 2026 that is neither unusually quiet nor busy) and count every vehicle call at every stop that day. Stops are placed in suburbs by their coordinates, and platforms grouped under one station count once. Walking access is measured in straight lines from each address point, so real walking routes are a little longer. Coverage is limited to states whose timetables are openly published; New South Wales and the ACT are not included and return no data rather than zeros. Timetables change a few times a year, so figures describe the network as published in late 2026.

Fields

Field	Unit	Description
`stops_total` Stops served	count	Stops in the suburb that at least one vehicle calls at on a typical weekday. A station or interchange that groups several platforms counts once; a stop used by more than one mode counts once here.
`stops_bus` Bus and coach stops	count	Stops with at least one bus or coach service on a typical weekday.
`stops_train` Train stations	count	Stations with at least one metro or suburban/regional train service on a typical weekday.
`stops_tram` Tram and light-rail stops	count	Stops with at least one tram or light-rail service on a typical weekday.
`stops_ferry` Ferry wharves	count	Wharves with at least one ferry service on a typical weekday.
`weekday_trips_total` Weekday vehicle calls, all modes	count	Total times a bus, train, tram or ferry calls at a stop in the suburb on a typical weekday (a vehicle that serves five stops in the suburb counts five). The measure of how much service the suburb actually receives.
`weekday_trips_bus` Weekday bus and coach calls	count	Weekday vehicle calls at the suburb's bus and coach stops.
`weekday_trips_train` Weekday train calls	count	Weekday train calls at the suburb's stations.
`weekday_trips_tram` Weekday tram calls	count	Weekday tram and light-rail calls at the suburb's stops.
`weekday_trips_ferry` Weekday ferry calls	count	Weekday ferry calls at the suburb's wharves.
`peak_trips_per_hour_busiest_stop` Peak departures per hour at the busiest stop	per hour	At the suburb's busiest stop, the average number of vehicle calls per hour between 7:00 and 8:59 am on a typical weekday. About 4 or more per hour means a service you can turn up to without a timetable.
`routes_total` Routes serving the suburb	count	Distinct routes (by published route name) that call at one or more stops in the suburb, all modes. Some operators publish each direction or origin-destination pair as its own route, so rail counts run higher in South East Queensland.
`routes_bus` Bus and coach routes	count	Distinct bus and coach routes calling in the suburb.
`routes_train` Train routes	count	Distinct train routes calling in the suburb.
`routes_tram` Tram routes	count	Distinct tram and light-rail routes calling in the suburb.
`routes_ferry` Ferry routes	count	Distinct ferry routes calling in the suburb.
`share_addr_400m_stop_pct` Addresses within 400 m of a stop	%	Share of the suburb's addresses within 400 metres (straight line, about a 5 minute walk) of a stop of any mode.
`share_addr_800m_station_pct` Addresses within 800 m of a station	%	Share of the suburb's addresses within 800 metres (about a 10 minute walk) of a train station. 0 where the state's feed has stations but none is near.
`median_addr_distance_to_stop_m` Typical distance to the nearest stop	m	Median straight-line distance from the suburb's addresses to their nearest stop of any mode.
`nearest_train_station_m` Distance from the suburb centre to the nearest train station	m	Straight-line distance from the suburb's centre point to the nearest train station in the same state's network. Not returned for Tasmania and Darwin, which have no passenger trains in the data.