Shopping Centre Toilets in Australia

1,470 of the public toilets on the national map are in shopping centres. New South Wales holds the most at 526 — 36% of the national figure — ahead of Victoria (359) and Queensland (256). The smallest recorded total is Northern Territory, with 25. They sit in 939 named towns across 954 recorded areas.

The largest clusters are at Sydney (23), Homebush (13) and Perth (11). Those 3 account for 47 of the 1,470; a further 655 towns record exactly one. The single busiest is Sydney, NSW.

Among them are Lismore Square Shopping Centre at 95 Diadem Street, Bonnyrigg Plaza, Westfield Coomera and Jam Factory. Around Sydney the listings run to World Square Lower Ground, David Jones - Castlereagh Street and Stockland Piccadilly Centre. Further afield the map records Ocean Keys Shopping Centre (WA) and Noosa Civic (QLD).

Of the 1,470, 927 have a baby-change table, 1,318 are recorded as wheelchair accessible and 26 are Changing Places facilities. That is 6% of every public toilet recorded across Australia (24,446 in total), and 1% of those open 24 hours.

1,318 of the 1,470 are recorded as wheelchair accessible — such as Warrawong Plaza near Hoyts and Ed.Square Town Centre. 26 are Changing Places facilities, with an adult-sized change table and a hoist — among them Centro The Glen and Westfield Knox. 37 open with an MLAK key, the national Master Locksmiths Access Key — among them Ingleburn and Bank Street. 49 need a key from the operator instead, which means finding whoever holds it before you arrive. 927 of the 1,470 have a baby-change table, and 906 of those sit at a site that is also wheelchair accessible.

82 of the 1,470 are published as open 24 hours — among them Caix Square and Rawson Shopping Centre. 107 open in daylight hours only, 27 list variable hours and 20 follow the host venue's hours. Where set times are published, the earliest opening is 4am at The Stables Shopping Centre and the latest closing is 11:59pm at Fairfield Forum. 10 are shown as closed on Mondays. 520 publish no weekly hours at all, so treat those as unknown rather than open.

3 of the 1,470 charge for entry; the rest are free — the charging ones being Post Office Square and St Ives Shopping Village 1. Centre facilities are tied to trading hours, and the block itself is usually the last thing locked. Where a centre records a parents' room it is counted below as a baby-change facility. These numbers come straight from the National Public Toilet Map, so confirm anything you are relying on before you set out.