Australian postcode
ID au_postcode
Pattern of postindexPersonal data (PII)categoricalDraft
This record is a draft: it has not been reviewed yet and may be incomplete or wrong. Do not rely on it for compliance decisions. Help improve it (see CONTRIBUTING.md).
Postcode in Australia: four digits. Codes in the Northern Territory start with 0, such as 0800 for Darwin.
- Pattern of
- Postal code/index
postindex - Categories
- Geographic identifiers, Personally identifiable information, Common
- Countries
- Australia
- Languages
- English
- FTA
POSTAL_CODE.POSTAL_CODE_AU- Quality
- 100/100
- Metacrafter rules
- no detection rule yet
- Supported by tools
- FTA (Fast Text Analysis), Snowflake sensitive data classification, Tableau
Regular expression
^\d{4}$Python re syntax.
Examples
| Value | Description |
|---|---|
| 2000 | Sydney |
| 3000 | Melbourne |
| 0800 | Darwin |
| 20000 invalid |
Translations
| Language | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Russian | Почтовый индекс Австралии |
Sources
- wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postcodes_in_Australia
- other: https://github.com/tsegall/fta/blob/main/SemanticTypes.md
Use this record
- Page URL:
http://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/au_postcode - JSON: API v1 · legacy shape (used by metacrafter) · Markdown (for LLMs)
- Improve it: edit
data/datatypes/AU/geo/au_postcode.yamlon GitHub