index (ABS CPI) - Source frequency: quarterly · Methodology · Corrections
Australia's rent price index (cpi) was 102.3 index (ABS CPI) as of April 2026. ABS Consumer Price Index for rents — the cost of renting a dwelling. Published as an index number (the ABS CPI reference period = 100), not a dollar figure per week. Rent levels are a key component of cost of living for the approximately 30% of Australians who rent. Rising rents reduce disposable income and can force housing trade-offs. Data is sourced from ABS Consumer Price Index (Cat. 6401.0) — Rents sub-index, quarterly (national) and updated quarterly.
ABS Consumer Price Index for rents — the cost of renting a dwelling. Published as an index number (the ABS CPI reference period = 100), not a dollar figure per week.
Rent levels are a key component of cost of living for the approximately 30% of Australians who rent. Rising rents reduce disposable income and can force housing trade-offs.
Lower is better
Source: ABS Consumer Price Index (Cat. 6401.0) — Rents sub-index, quarterly (national)
This data is sourced programmatically from official statistical APIs and data feeds (ABS Consumer Price Index (Cat. 6401.0) — Rents sub-index, quarterly (national)), updated quarterly. The source link above points to the human-readable publication page, which presents the same underlying data in a different format (e.g. Excel workbook, PDF release). Our pipeline fetches the machine-readable version automatically and converts it to the standardised format shown here.
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