City Compass

LLM access for Ballina (A), New South Wales.

Entry point: https://citycompass.com.au/ballina-a/community
Catalog: https://citycompass.com.au/ballina-a/community/llm/index.json

How to use this data

Each topic is available as both an HTML page and a machine-readable JSON/CSV endpoint.

Read the HTML page first. It provides interpretation context: what the data measures, how to read the numbers, what benchmark deviations are meaningful, and which related topics to cross-reference. The "Key insight" section contains a pre-computed editorial summary of the most notable finding.

Then use the JSON endpoint for precise data. Responses include counts, percentages, benchmark comparisons, and change-over-time for both Census years. Rows with a non-null "highlight" field have a noteworthy deviation from the benchmark. The "manifest" block lists all valid parameter combinations for further queries.

To compare a single category across all suburbs within the LGA, use ?view=compare&category={slug} on the JSON endpoint. To understand what drives a pattern, pull related topics listed in topic_metadata.related_topics for the same area.

Canonical route patterns for this LGA:
https://citycompass.com.au/ballina-a/community
https://citycompass.com.au/ballina-a/community/{suburb}
https://citycompass.com.au/ballina-a/community/api/{category}/{topic}.json
https://citycompass.com.au/ballina-a/community/api/{category}/{topic}.csv
https://citycompass.com.au/ballina-a/community/{category}/{topic}
https://citycompass.com.au/ballina-a/community/{category}/{topic}?view=change
https://citycompass.com.au/ballina-a/community/{category}/{topic}?view=compare
https://citycompass.com.au/ballina-a/community/{category}/{topic}?view=compare&category={category-slug}
https://citycompass.com.au/ballina-a/community/specialist/{topic}
https://citycompass.com.au/ballina-a/community/specialist/{topic}?index=irsd&view=internal
https://citycompass.com.au/ballina-a/community/{suburb}/{category}/{topic}
https://citycompass.com.au/ballina-a/community/{suburb}/{category}/{topic}?view=change

Use the `/community/api/{category}/{topic}.json` and `.csv` routes for the canonical machine-readable topic contract.
Use `?view=change` for the change view on multi-year community topics.
Use `?view=compare&category={slug}` on the topic API to compare one category across all suburbs in the LGA.
Compare view is always LGA-scoped and does not accept suburb area values.
Use `?view=internal` for the SEIFA within-area specialist view.

Example API calls:
https://citycompass.com.au/ballina-a/community/api/population/service-age-groups.json?area=alstonvale&benchmark=gccsa&sex=persons
https://citycompass.com.au/ballina-a/community/api/income/household-income-quartiles.json?area=alstonvale&benchmark=gccsa&sex=persons
https://citycompass.com.au/ballina-a/community/api/housing/dwellings.json?area=alstonvale&benchmark=gccsa&sex=persons

Suburbs in this LGA (use as {suburb} in route patterns above):
- alstonvale (Alstonvale)
- alstonville (Alstonville)
- bagotville (Bagotville)
- ballina (Ballina)
- brooklet (Brooklet)
- cabbage-tree-island-ballina-nsw (Cabbage Tree Island (Ballina - NSW))
- coolgardie-nsw (Coolgardie (NSW))
- cumbalum (Cumbalum)
- dalwood-ballina-nsw (Dalwood (Ballina - NSW))
- east-ballina (East Ballina)
- east-wardell (East Wardell)
- empire-vale (Empire Vale)
- fernleigh (Fernleigh)
- goat-island (Goat Island)
- keith-hall (Keith Hall)
- kinvara (Kinvara)
- knockrow (Knockrow)
- lennox-head (Lennox Head)
- lynwood-nsw (Lynwood (NSW))
- meerschaum-vale (Meerschaum Vale)
- newrybar (Newrybar)
- patchs-beach (Patchs Beach)
- pearces-creek-part (Pearces Creek (part))
- pimlico-nsw (Pimlico (NSW))
- pimlico-island (Pimlico Island)
- rous (Rous)
- rous-mill (Rous Mill)
- skennars-head (Skennars Head)
- south-ballina (South Ballina)
- teven (Teven)
- tintenbar (Tintenbar)
- tuckombil (Tuckombil)
- uralba (Uralba)
- wardell (Wardell)
- west-ballina (West Ballina)
- wollongbar (Wollongbar)

Only implemented Community Explorer pages and machine-readable topic contracts for this LGA are listed in the catalog.