Traffic data - e.g. vehicles per day?

Does anyone here know the best way to find out the traffic profile of a property (aside from guessing!)?

Is data available for example listing the number of vehicles that pass a property on a daily basis?

Part of my search for real estate involves categorising my finds into "main road" / "not main road", but I'm interested in refining that categorisation effort to be a lot less crude.

 

Find council DA website. Locate a commercial dev approval in same street that is recent. eg Dentist, shopping centre, childcare etc Traffic survey data will be part of approval and be a public document. BUT...Its likely up to 8 years out of date sometimes. Some RMS's have limited data eg NSW has "traffic volume viewer" on web. Main roads !!

 

Wow, so the only (slim) hope is if there is some kind of commercial building in the street?

Hmm, might have to somehow crowd source this myself.

 

If you go to Google Maps you can look at the traffic density during the day - it will colour code the road for you.

Actuaries get traffic data from Google Maps and Apple (i.e. looking at how many mobile phones traverse the road) so perhaps you could investigate that angle?

 

Thanks, that might be a worthy Plan B.