Postcode checker
See which official tables list a postcode, for each type of work, on the 417 and 462 visa.
See every listed postcode on the map
How the lists work
Home Affairs publishes six tables of postcodes. Each table covers certain types of work. A postcode can be in several tables.
The six tables, in plain words
- Remote and Very Remote Australia: tourism and hospitality, work from 22 June 2021.
- Four extra postcodes (4406, 4416, 4498, 7215): tourism and hospitality, applications from 1 July 2022.
- Northern Australia: tourism and hospitality. For 462 also farm, fishing, tree and construction work.
- Regional Australia: farm, fishing, tree farming, mining, construction (417). Farm and construction only (462).
- Bushfire declared areas: recovery work after 31 July 2019, paid or volunteer.
- Natural disaster declared areas: flood, cyclone and storm recovery after 31 December 2021, paid or volunteer.
Which postcode do I use?
The postcode where you actually do the work. Not your employer's office, and not where you live.