Land tenure of Australia 2010–11 to 2020–21

Publication date: 31 October 2024

The Land tenure of Australia 2010–11 to 2020–21 data package consists of seamless continental rasters showing Australia’s land tenure, and land tenure change, for three time periods 2010–11, 2015–16, and 2020–21. Using a 4-tiered hierarchical classification, the datasets show where land is owned, leased, reserved or unallocated to a defined purpose in Australia. The datasets were constructed by combining jurisdictional land title information from digital cadastral databases or their equivalents with Indigenous land grant instruments areas. The data package contains for each of the 3 time periods an independent raster and data caveat raster of known uncertainties in the product, plus 4 combined change rasters. The 5-yearly data is at a resolution of 250 by 250 metres. 

The Land tenure of Australia 2010–11 to 2020–21 data package is a product of the Australian Collaborative Land Use and Management Program. This data package replaces the Land tenure of Australia 2010–11 to 2015–16 data package, with updates to these time periods.

Map 1. Land tenure of Australia 2020-21 at Level 3

Map of Australia showing Land Tenure at Level 3 for 2020-21

Map 2. Land tenure of Australia change at Level 3

Map of Australia showing locations of Land Tenure change at Level 3 between the three time periods, 201-11, 2015-16 and 2020-21

Citation

ABARES 2024, Land tenure of Australia 2010–11 to 2020–21, Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences, Canberra, October, CC BY 4.0. DOI: 10.25814/89rx-zs30

Downloads

The entire contents of the Land tenure of Australia 2010–11 to 2020–21 data package including spatial data, data symbology, metadata and maps is available in a single zipped package – zip [96 MB]
The Land tenure of Australia 2010–11 to 2020–21 data package is also available on data.gov.au.

Data

Individual time periods with data caveats

Tenure and associated change for the three time periods

Metadata

Land tenure of Australia 2010–11 to 2020–21 – descriptive metadata – MS Word [10.5 MB] and PDF [1.0 MB] – reflects the contents of the entire download package

Maps

Maps of land tenure, tenure change and data caveats for the Land tenure of Australia 2010-11 to 2020-21 can be downloaded using the links below. 

Tenure Level 1

Tenure Level 2

Tenure Level 3*

Tenure Level 4

Tenure Change Level 3* and 4

Tenure Data Caveat

* Used for the National Land Accounts, Experimental Estimates.
Download a zipped folder containing all 17 maps as PNG and PDF - zip [43 MB]

Analysis

A summary of Australia's land tenure as at 2020-21 is available here. This data will inform the next National Land Account, Experimental Estimates to be released later in 2024.

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Contact

Land_management@aff.gov.au