Census Local Government Area (LGA)

These are the principal tabulation units used in the publication of Census data. They correspond in all but a few instances to legal Local Government Areas as defined at 31 January 1976. The exceptions are:

(i) Some very minor areas for which boundary changes, involving nil or very minor populations, were received too late for implementation.
(ii) City of Brisbane, Northern Territory and A.C.T., which are divided into statistical areas, which for the sake of utility are treated as LGA's for statistical purposes.

Census LGA's are numbered consecutively in alphabetical order within each State or Territory.

Detailed lists of codes and names are available in the 1976 Census publications Local Government Areas in Statistical Divisions and Local Government Areas in Census LGA Code Order.