Road Safety Index.
Every Australian region ranked by the best driving roads, fauna hotspots, crash density, and road risk. Built on 500m-granularity scores across every public road in the country.
Rankings use real road data - geometry, surface, gradient, crash records, and wildlife observations. Not editorial picks. No crash data is available for the Northern Territory - NT scores reflect geometry, surface condition, and fauna risk only.
No data available for this combination yet. LGA and postcode rankings populate after the spatial join pipeline runs.
This index is built on Contour's road intelligence pipeline - 500m-granularity scoring across every public road in Australia. Risk index uses a length-weighted formula: regions with more high-risk road kilometres rank higher than those with isolated stretches. Best roads rankings reflect road geometry, surface condition, gradient, and curvature. Crash data covers all states except NT.
About the data
Every road in this index is scored using named, attributed sources: crash records from state police registries, road geometry from OpenStreetMap, wildlife sighting density from ALA/GBIF biodiversity databases, and weather risk from Bureau of Meteorology records.
Scores run from 0 to 10. Higher is safer. Each score covers a 500-metre stretch of road and accounts for crash history, road geometry, surface condition, fauna risk, and wet road risk.
The national dataset covers 904,086 km of Australian public roads across all eight states and territories. Crash data includes 1.2 million records and 13,519 fatal crashes, each matched to the specific road segment where it occurred.
No crash data is available for the Northern Territory. NT regions appear in the index but crash components are excluded from their scores.
Data sources: OpenStreetMap - ABS 2021 Census - State crash registries (VIC, NSW, QLD, SA, WA, TAS, ACT) - Atlas of Living Australia / GBIF - Bureau of Meteorology