Suburbtrends Media Desk — The Rent Burden
Suburbtrends Media Desk
The Cost-of-Living Desk

The rent that gets you in.

Set a weekly rent — or switch to share of income and set a rent-to-income line. See where the typical rental is still within reach, and how far that's shifted in a year, across the eight capitals.

Renter's weekly budget
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The angle

CapitalShare of markets where the typical rental is within budgetvs a year ago

How to read it: the bar is the share of a capital's markets where the typical (median) rental meets your setting today; the gold line marks a year ago. Dollar budget compares the median advertised weekly rent against your figure. Share of income compares that rent against local household income — ABS Census 2021 average household weekly income by SA2, aggregated to each SA3 market by dwelling count and indexed ×1.16 to 2026; income is held at that base for both periods, so the year-ago marker isolates the rent move. House and Unit use that dwelling type's median rent; All blends the two, weighted by rental-market size. Rolling 12-month lease medians. Source: Suburbtrends; income ABS Census 2021.

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