Australian places / G-NAF

Bowen, QLD: postcodes and geography

Bowen, QLD: 8,742 addresses. Postcodes 4805. Local government, electorates, remoteness and MMM.

Bowen addresses and postcodes

Bowen is a G-NAF locality in Queensland, with 8,742 addresses.

Postcodes
4805
Map reference
Postcode 4805, Latitude -20.009634, longitude 148.191194. 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 Bowen in QLD.

Local government areas

  • Whitsunday, 8,740 addresses (100%)
  • Migratory - Offshore - Shipping (Qld), 2 addresses (0%)

Federal electorates

  • Dawson, 8,740 addresses (100%)
  • Migratory - Offshore - Shipping (Qld), 2 addresses (0%)

State electorates

  • Burdekin, 8,740 addresses (100%)
  • Migratory - Offshore - Shipping (Qld), 2 addresses (0%)

Statistical Areas Level 3

  • Bowen Basin - North, 8,740 addresses (100%)
  • Migratory - Offshore - Shipping (Qld), 2 addresses (0%)

Statistical Areas Level 4

  • Mackay - Isaac - Whitsunday, 8,740 addresses (100%)
  • Migratory - Offshore - Shipping (Qld), 2 addresses (0%)

Remoteness areas

  • Outer Regional Australia, 8,689 addresses (99.4%)
  • Remote Australia, 51 addresses (0.6%)
  • Migratory - Offshore - Shipping (Qld), 2 addresses (0%)

Modified Monash categories

  • MM 4: Medium rural town, 7,646 addresses (87.5%)
  • MM 5: Small rural town, 1,043 addresses (11.9%)
  • MM 6: Remote community, 51 addresses (0.6%)
  • Unknown, 2 addresses (0%)

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=Bowen' \
  -H 'X-API-Key: YOUR_API_KEY'

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