List of postal codes in Australia

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Postcodes were introduced in Australia in 1967 by the Postmaster-General's Department (PMG), the predecessor of Australia Post.

Australian postcodes are routing information, and while they are often associated with a single bounded geographical area (e.g. suburb or town) they are not always contiguous areas. They sometimes have quite complex geography, especially in areas beyond the urban fringe (e.g. the southern Queensland 4352 postcode). Some postcodes cover large populations (e.g., postcode 4350 serving some 100,000 people in the City of Toowoomba).

Australian Postcodes are four digits long, and written after the name of the city, suburb, or town, and the state or territory:

400 Kent Street
Sydney NSW 2000
Australia

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[edit] Format

Although the first digit of the post code indicates the state or territory, an abbreviation is also used:

State/Territory Abbreviation Post Code
New South Wales NSW 2xxx
Australian Capital Territory ACT 2600 to 2618 and 29xx
Victoria Vic 3xxx
Queensland Qld 4xxx
South Australia SA 5xxx
Western Australia WA 6xxx
Tasmania Tas 7xxx
Northern Territory NT 08xx and 09xx

This does not apply to Australia's External Territories of Norfolk Island, Christmas Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands:

Territory Post Code
Norfolk Island 2899
Christmas Island 6798
Cocos (Keeling) Islands 6799

[edit] State and territory capitals

Each state or territory's capital has two separate post codes, for street addresses (ending with the digits '00') and PO Box addresses (ending with the digits '01'):

City State/Territory Street Address PO Box Address
Sydney NSW 2000 2001
Canberra ACT 2600 2601
Melbourne Vic 3000 3001
Brisbane Qld 4000 4001
Adelaide SA 5000 5001
Perth WA 6000 6001
Hobart Tas 7000 7001
Darwin NT 0800 0801

[edit] Post Codes for PO Box and large users

In the late 1990s, new post code ranges were introduced for PO Box and large users in the following cities:

City State/Territory Post Code
Canberra ACT 02xx
Sydney NSW 1xxx
Melbourne Vic 8xxx
Brisbane Qld 9xxx

[edit] Exceptions to these Postcode Ranges

Although postcode areas in Australia are supposed to correspond with state and territory boundaries, there are many exceptions as of 22 September 2005 (taken by querying Australia Post's own public database):

Postcode Suburb State Derived from Postcode Ranges Actual State for this Suburb
0872 ERNABELLA NT SA
0872 FREGON NT SA
2540 HMAS CRESWELL NSW ACT
2540 JERVIS BAY NSW ACT
2611 BRINDABELLA ACT NSW
2611 URIARRA ACT NSW
2620 HUME NSW ACT
2620 THARWA NSW ACT
3500 PARINGI VIC NSW
3644 BAROOGA VIC NSW
3707 BRINGENBRONG VIC NSW

Some or all of the postcodes above may span two states. For example postcode 2620 covers both a suburb in NSW (Gundaroo) as well as a suburb in the ACT (Hume) - the postcode is within the ACT range.

Jervis Bay, an exclave of the ACT, is geographically located on the coast of NSW, just south of the towns of Vincentia and Huskisson, which accounts for it having a NSW postcode.

[edit] See also

  1. List of postcodes in the Australian Capital Territory
  2. List of postcodes in Geelong
  3. List of postcodes in New South Wales (A-E)
  4. List of postcodes in New South Wales (F-M)
  5. List of postcodes in New South Wales (N-Z)
  6. List of postcodes in the Northern Territory
  7. List of postcodes in Queensland (A-K)
  8. List of postcodes in Queensland (L-Z)
  9. List of postcodes in South Australia
  10. List of postcodes in Tasmania
  11. List of postcodes in Victoria
  12. List of postcodes in Western Australia

[edit] External links

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