---
id: "au_postcode"
kind: "pattern"
status: "draft"
is_pii: true
categories: ["geo", "pii", "common"]
country: ["AU"]
langs: ["en"]
quality: 100
url: "http://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/au_postcode"
---

# Australian postcode (`au_postcode`)

> **Draft.** Draft records have not been reviewed yet and may be incomplete or wrong; do not treat them as authoritative for legal or compliance decisions.

Postcode in Australia: four digits. Codes in the Northern Territory start with 0, such as 0800 for Darwin.

- Pattern of: `postindex`
- Personal data (PII): yes
- Categories: Geographic identifiers (geo), Personally identifiable information (pii), Common (common)
- Countries: Australia (AU)
- Languages: English (en)
- Classification: categorical

## Detection

Regular expression (Python `re`):

```
^\d{4}$
```

## Examples

- `2000` — Sydney
- `3000` — Melbourne
- `0800` — Darwin
- `20000` (invalid example)

## Mappings

- fta: `POSTAL_CODE.POSTAL_CODE_AU`

## Supported by tools

- `fta`
- `snowflake`
- `tableau`

## Translations

- ru: Почтовый индекс Австралии

## Sources

- wikipedia: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postcodes_in_Australia>
- other: <https://github.com/tsegall/fta/blob/main/SemanticTypes.md>

## Quality

Score 100/100.

JSON: <http://registry.apicrafter.io/api/v1/datatypes/au_postcode.json> · Edit: <https://github.com/apicrafter/metacrafter-registry/edit/main/data/datatypes/AU/geo/au_postcode.yaml>