Australian places / G-NAF

Forbes, NSW: postcodes and geography

Forbes, NSW: 5,777 addresses. Postcodes 2871. Local government, electorates, remoteness and MMM.

Forbes addresses and postcodes

Forbes is a G-NAF locality in New South Wales, with 5,777 addresses.

Postcodes
2871
Map reference
Postcode 2871, Latitude -33.389046, longitude 147.986153. This is a postcode centroid, not a suburb boundary or suburb centre.
ABS locality
The suburb name is also present in the ABS Suburbs and Localities allocation for these postcodes.

Geography and address shares

Shares count G-NAF addresses, including addresses with unknown allocations. They describe addresses, not population or land area. Counts are restricted to addresses labelled Forbes in NSW.

Local government areas

  • Forbes, 5,777 addresses (100%)

Federal electorates

  • Parkes, 5,777 addresses (100%)

State electorates

  • Orange, 5,777 addresses (100%)

Statistical Areas Level 3

  • Lachlan Valley, 5,777 addresses (100%)

Statistical Areas Level 4

  • Central West, 5,777 addresses (100%)

Remoteness areas

  • Outer Regional Australia, 5,777 addresses (100%)

Modified Monash categories

  • MM 4: Medium rural town, 5,395 addresses (93.4%)
  • MM 5: Small rural town, 382 addresses (6.6%)

Allocations follow the boundary editions in the loaded data release. A postcode or suburb can cross an electorate or council boundary. Query a full address for its allocation.

Try it

The API adds address identifiers, property coordinates and boundary codes for individual addresses. Get a free API key and replace YOUR_API_KEY.

curl 'https://addresses.sessional.au/v1/addresses?q=Forbes' \
  -H 'X-API-Key: YOUR_API_KEY'

See the API reference for response fields, query limits and pagination.