About this site

Info about the NSW Rental Bond Cheatsheet

Purpose

This site was written for the purpose of:

1. helping renters in NSW keep their bond
2. providing greater transparency of Rental Bonds Online data

Author

This site was written by Hamish Croser. Please reach out if you have suggestions or corrections.

Contact email - nswbondcheatsheet@gmail.com
Github - https://github.com/h-croser

Source code

https://github.com/h-croser/nsw-bond-cheatsheet

Access the data

The data for this page was originally sourced from the Fair Trading rental bond data website.

The original data has been transformed in order to reduce the download sizes and provide the visualisations. Download the transformed data below:

• Download holdings
• Download refunds totals
• Download refunds portions
• Download all median rents
• Download median rents by bedroom

Information sources

Tenants’ Union of NSW. (2024). Website. https://www.tenants.org.au

This website was used as a primary information source for the Cheatsheet page

East Area Tenants Service. (2024). Website. https://eats.org.au

This website was used as a primary information source for the Cheatsheet page

Rental bond data. (2024). Website. https://www.nsw.gov.au/housing-and-construction/rental-forms-surveys-and-data/rental-bond-data

This website was used as the source of all data for the Bond Data and Rent Data pages.

M Proctor. (2024). Australian Postcodes. GitHub repository. https://github.com/matthewproctor/australianpostcodes

This dataset of Australian postcodes was used to create a map of postcode locations for a data visualisation on the Bond Data and Rent Data pages.

Australian Government - Department of Industry, Science and Resources. (2022). NSW State Boundary - Geoscape Administrative Boundaries. Dataset. https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/nsw-state-boundary

This dataset of NSW state boundaries was used to create a map of NSW for data visualisation on the Bond Data and Rent Data pages.

Acknowledgements

Observable Framework. (2024). Software library. https://observablehq.com/framework

This site was built with Observable

M Bloch. (2024). Mapshaper. Software. https://mapshaper.org/, https://github.com/mbloch/mapshaper

This tool was used to simplify and convert the NSW state boundary shape file.

Zac Agius. Site reviewer. https://zacagius.cargo.site

Zac provided valuable feedback on the usability and presentation of this site