GP Catchment 2023 - Postal Areas 2021

Created 06/11/2025

Updated 06/11/2025

General Practitioner Catchment (GPC)

Developed by the Australian Government Department of Health and Aged Care as custom aggregations of the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) Australian Statistical Geography Standard (ASGS) 2021 Statistical Area Level 1 (SA1), Statistical Area Level 2 (SA2), Statistical Area Level 3 (SA3), and Urban Centre and Locality (UCL) geographies. The GP catchment areas give a more accurate picture of where patients access their health services.

Postal Areas (POA)

Postal Areas are an ABS Mesh Block approximation of a general definition of postcodes. They enable comparison of ABS data with other data collected using postcodes as the geographic reference. ABS approximations of administrative boundaries do not match official legal boundaries and should only be used for statistical purposes.

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Title GP Catchment 2023 - Postal Areas 2021
Language English
Licence Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 Australia
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/24d97ee0-73dd-4ff4-aea6-b2cbabe4021e
Contact Point
Department of Health and Aged Care
HWDDataGovernance@health.gov.au
Reference Period 15/01/2024
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
{
  "coordinates": [
    151.122622,
    -25.371968
  ],
  "type": "Point"
}
Data Portal Data.gov.au