Know a place like you have lived there.

The complete printed reference to Frankston, Victoria 3199.

Most of what is written about a place is scattered, dated or shallow: one screen here, a forum thread there, a figure with no source anywhere. This book is the opposite: the complete, current, source-cited portrait of Frankston, VIC 3199, assembled from the official record and printed as a 95-page A4 reference work.

95 pages · 13 parts · 18 pages of maps · 843 streets · A4 comb-bound · Edition 2026 Q3

The standard it is built to

Complete. 13 parts: the place, 18 full pages of maps, safety and crime, the people, housing and property, getting around, every service, nature, the economy, every one of the 843 streets, the neighbours, written chapters, and the method.
Current. Edition 2026 Q3. Housing and rent figures from the Census; the full Census picture with change over time.
Cited. Every figure carries its source and its date, from the ABS to the state's own housing statistics. The final chapter is the method itself.

Could you gather this yourself?

Most of it, eventually. The sources are public, and each one is named on the page. What you buy is the finished work: dozens of official releases read, reconciled, dated and typeset into one reference, so an evening in an armchair replaces weeks at a screen.

Who keeps it on the desk

Buyers weighing the move. New arrivals learning the ground. Agents and professionals who need the local facts at hand. Locals who want the full picture of their own place. And it is giftable, which a website never is: as a housewarming, farewell or Christmas present it says what a card cannot, that your place matters. It reads in an evening and serves for years.

Why print, and why this print

A website scrolls past. A reference book stays. A4, professionally printed, comb bound so it opens flat, with a clear protective front cover and a durable black back. A real object: read it at the kitchen table, mark it up, gift it, keep it on the shelf. Three censuses inside: 2021 in full, 2016 beside it, 2011 as background.

The plain promise

The cover line says the most comprehensive suburb guide on the planet, and the contents page is where we prove it. Nothing else in print covers an Australian suburb at this depth.

Edition 2026 Q3 is the current edition. When the Q4 edition is released, Q3 closes. Made, printed and shipped in Australia. Built by an Aussie data engineer.

Printed in black and white. Listing images are an artist impression of the finished book.

Sources: official government and open data, used under their licences and credited inside the guide.