Australian Entertainment Venue Map

Frequently asked questions

What venues are shown on the entertainment map?

The map shows licensed pubs and hotels, bars, clubs (RSL, leagues, nightclubs) and dining & licensed premises. In NSW and VIC, venues come directly from the government liquor registers (Liquor & Gaming NSW and the Victorian Commission for Gambling and Liquor Regulation). For all other states, venue locations come from OpenStreetMap. Bottle shops, producers and limited licences are excluded.

Which areas have the highest concentration of venues?

Inner-city entertainment precincts dominate the density map: Surry Hills, Newtown and Potts Point in Sydney; Fitzroy, Collingwood and St Kilda in Melbourne; Fortitude Valley in Brisbane. Zoom into a city to see individual venue dots and filter by type — bars are concentrated in the same strips as pubs but skew toward inner-suburb restaurant precincts.

How is the Entertainment Score calculated?

The Entertainment Score on each suburb profile is a 0–100 national percentile of licensed-venue density (venues per 1,000 residents), with a small variety bonus for suburbs that have multiple licence types. A score of 80 means the suburb is in the top 20% nationally. Zero-venue suburbs score 0. See the Entertainment Score methodology post for the full detail.

Why do some states show fewer venues?

NSW and VIC have comprehensive government liquor registers with precise geocoded addresses — these are the primary source. For QLD, SA, WA, TAS, NT and ACT, venues are sourced from OpenStreetMap, which has good but not complete coverage (community-mapped data). We plan to add government register data for additional states as it becomes available.