APN National | Australian Property Network™

City, Regional and Remote: Where Australians Live by Remoteness, and How the Places Differ

At the 2021 Census 72.2% of Australians lived in a major city, 26.0% in a regional area and 470,053 (1.9%) in remote or very remote areas. Inner regional areas are the oldest, with 22.2% of residents aged 65 and over;...

Thursday October 15, 2026

Households Without a Car, and With Three or More: Motor Vehicles by State and Suburb at the 2021 Census

Mobility Matrix (Transport)

Households Without a Car, and With Three or More: Motor Vehicles by State and Suburb at the 2021 Census

At the 2021 Census 673,969 Australian households had no motor vehicle, 7.4% of those that stated a number, and 1.75 million (19.1%) had three or more. The share with no vehicle ran from 5.0% in Western Australia to 11.1% in...

Thursday October 15, 2026

How Australians Got to Work on Census Day 2021: Car, Public Transport, Foot or Home, by State and Suburb

Mobility Matrix (Transport)

How Australians Got to Work on Census Day 2021: Car, Public Transport, Foot or Home, by State and Suburb

On Census day in August 2021, 2.53 million employed Australians worked at home, 21.0% of the workforce against 4.7% in 2016, from 31.0% in New South Wales to 4.2% in the Northern Territory. Of the 8.04 million who travelled to...

Thursday October 15, 2026

Preschool in 2025: Where Four- and Five-Year-Olds Are Enrolled, in What Kind of Service, and at What Fee

Early Foundation (Childcare)

Preschool in 2025: Where Four- and Five-Year-Olds Are Enrolled, in What Kind of Service, and at What Fee

In 2025, 350,491 Australian children aged four or five were enrolled in a preschool program, half of them through centre based day care alone. 29.2% had a program at no fee after subsidies, from 12.9% in New South Wales to...

Thursday October 15, 2026

Household Income Growth by Suburb, 2016 to 2021

Advancement Velocity

Household Income Growth by Suburb, 2016 to 2021

Australia's median household income rose from $1,438 to $1,746 a week between the 2016 and 2021 Censuses, up 21.4%, while consumer prices rose about 9.5%. Across 6,169 comparable suburbs the middle suburb rose 19.1%, and in about one in six...

Thursday October 15, 2026

Degrees by Suburb: Who Holds a University Qualification, by Age, State and Suburb at the 2021 Census

Human Capital Depth

Degrees by Suburb: Who Holds a University Qualification, by Age, State and Suburb at the 2021 Census

At the 2021 Census 5.46 million people held a bachelor degree or above, 26.3% of residents aged 15 and over and 40.1% of those aged 25 to 34. The share rises with the size of the place, from 16.4% to...

Wednesday October 14, 2026

Where University Students Live: Higher Education Students by State and Suburb at the 2021 Census

Tertiary Node & Knowledge

Where University Students Live: Higher Education Students by State and Suburb at the 2021 Census

At the 2021 Census 1.19 million people were studying at a university or other higher education provider, 5.7% of residents aged 15 and over. The share ran from 2.7% in localities of 201 to 999 residents to 6.7% in those...

Wednesday October 14, 2026

Government, Catholic and Other Schools: Where School Students Go, by State and Suburb

School Density & Sector Mix

Government, Catholic and Other Schools: Where School Students Go, by State and Suburb

At the 2021 Census 36.3% of Australia's 3.70 million school students attended a non-government school. The share varies little between states, from 33.2% in Tasmania to 37.9% in South Australia, and widely between suburbs, from 1.3% to 80.6% among larger...

Wednesday October 14, 2026

Australia in Education: Who Was Studying at the 2021 Census, from Preschool to University

APN Meridian™

Australia in Education: Who Was Studying at the 2021 Census, from Preschool to University

At the 2021 Census 6.22 million people in Australia were attending an educational institution, 24.5% of the population. Among people aged 20 to 24 the share studying was 40.4%, and it ran from 23.6% in localities of 201 to 999...

Wednesday October 14, 2026

Households on Less Than $650 a Week: Where Low Incomes Are Concentrated, by State and Suburb

APN Acute Vulnerability Index™

Households on Less Than $650 a Week: Where Low Incomes Are Concentrated, by State and Suburb

At the 2021 Census 1.43 million Australian households had an income under $650 a week, 15.7% of households, leaving out those in which no one stated an income. The share was 39.5% among lone-person and group households and 5.9% among...

Wednesday October 14, 2026

Where Australians Were Born, Suburb by Suburb: Country of Birth at the 2021 Census

Demographic Tension Index

Where Australians Were Born, Suburb by Suburb: Country of Birth at the 2021 Census

At the 2021 Census 7.0 million people living in Australia were born overseas, 29.3% of those who stated a birthplace. The share ran from 16.3% in Tasmania to 34.2% in Western Australia, and among larger suburbs from 4.7% to 85.8%.

Wednesday October 14, 2026

Staying Put: Who Lived at the Same Address Five Years On, by State and Suburb

Housing Security & Churn

Staying Put: Who Lived at the Same Address Five Years On, by State and Suburb

At the 2021 Census 12.7 million Australians were at the same address as five years earlier, 56.6% of those who answered. South Australia was the most settled state at 61.0%; among larger suburbs the share ran from 3.2% in a...

Tuesday October 13, 2026

Who Volunteers, and Where: Voluntary Work by State, Age and Locality at the 2021 Census

Bonding Capital (Civic Engagement)

Who Volunteers, and Where: Voluntary Work by State, Age and Locality at the 2021 Census

At the 2021 Census 2,933,646 Australians had volunteered in the previous year: 14.1% of people aged 15 and over, or 15.1% of those who answered the question. Among those who answered, the rate was 20.0% in localities with 201 to...

Tuesday October 13, 2026

Three Measures of Home Values and One Turn: What the ABS, Cotality and PropTrack Figures Show to September 2026

Market Reports

Three Measures of Home Values and One Turn: What the ABS, Cotality and PropTrack Figures Show to September 2026

Annual growth in home values reads 6.8%, 0.0% or 0.1% depending on the measure. The ABS figure is for the June quarter and the Cotality and PropTrack figures for September; all three put the high point in March 2026 and...

Tuesday October 13, 2026

The June Quarter of 2026 Across the Housing Data: What Rose and What Fell

Analysis

The June Quarter of 2026 Across the Housing Data: What Rose and What Fell

In the June quarter of 2026 the mean dwelling price fell 0.7% and new owner-occupier loans 3.3%, while approvals, commencements and completions were each more than 12% above a year earlier and 248,733 dwellings were under construction. Sixteen measures side...

Tuesday October 13, 2026

Investor vs. Owner-Occupier Behaviour Analysis

Where Investors Borrow: The Investor Share of New Home Loans, State by State

Investors took out 40.3% of new home loans in the year to June 2026, up from 27.4% six years earlier. The share runs from 48.3% in the Northern Territory to 28.2% in the ACT, and Western Australia's has more than...

Tuesday October 13, 2026

Market Psychology & Herd Behaviour

Rising Together: How Often Dwelling Prices and Home Loan Numbers Move in the Same Direction

Through 2025 the mean dwelling price and the number of new home loans rose together for four quarters, the longest run since 2011. In the June quarter of 2026 both fell, for the first time since March 2023. Across 59...

Tuesday October 13, 2026

Property Prices

Median House and Unit Prices in the Capitals and the Regions, June Quarter 2026

The median house sold for $1,487,600 in Sydney and $1,155,000 in Brisbane in the June quarter of 2026, on preliminary ABS figures. Melbourne, at $850,000, is sixth of the eight capitals: up 2.4% in five years against 87.0% in Perth...

Monday October 12, 2026

When Dwelling Prices Fall: Every Decline Since 2011, State by State

Price Volatility & Risk Assessment

When Dwelling Prices Fall: Every Decline Since 2011, State by State

The average Australian dwelling was valued at $1,100,400 in the June quarter of 2026, $8,200 less than in March: the fourteenth quarterly fall in 59 quarters. New South Wales, Victoria and the ACT fell; the other five states and territories...

Monday October 12, 2026

Australia’s Homes in Numbers: 11.5 Million Dwellings Worth $12.7 Trillion

National

Australia’s Homes in Numbers: 11.5 Million Dwellings Worth $12.7 Trillion

Australia had 11.53 million dwellings worth $12.69 trillion at the June quarter of 2026, $992bn more than a year earlier but $34bn less than in March, the first quarterly fall in the total since 2022. Households own 96.0% of the...

Monday October 12, 2026

What Australia Is Approving Outside Housing: Non-Residential Building by Type

Specific Property Sector Reports Analysis

What Australia Is Approving Outside Housing: Non-Residential Building by Type

Australia approved $95.7bn of non-residential building in the year to August 2026, close to double 2019. A fifth of it, $19.3bn, is in the ABS category that includes data centres, against $0.62bn seven years earlier. Offices fell from 18.3% of...

Monday October 12, 2026

Construction Finance & Capacity

Residential and Land Development in the Banks’ Commercial Property Lending, 2011 to 2026

Banks had approved $109.3bn of credit for residential projects and land development at June 2026, 20.2% of their commercial property limits and the highest share since 2018. The two categories supplied 45.4% of the past year's growth.

Monday October 12, 2026

New Housing Supply Forecasts

Work in Hand: The Value of Residential Building Yet to Be Done

Builders had $84.7bn of residential work yet to be done at June 2026, a new high for the eighth consecutive quarter and 8.7 months of current output. Since 2019 the value of work done has risen 45.8%, its volume 2.1%.

Monday October 12, 2026

The Epoch of Synthetic Expansion: Continuing or Ending?

National Structural Diagnosis

The Epoch of Synthetic Expansion: Continuing or Ending?

Australia's dwelling values have stopped rising: the stock was worth slightly less in the June quarter 2026, and by September values were level with a year earlier. Yet prices remain close to their record against earnings and the margin for...

Saturday October 10, 2026

Years of Earnings for the Average Dwelling, State by State, 2012 to 2026

Housing Affordability Analysis

Years of Earnings for the Average Dwelling, State by State, 2012 to 2026

The average Australian dwelling was worth 10.16 years of full-time earnings in the June quarter 2026, up from 6.98 in 2012. Four jurisdictions peaked in 2021–22; Queensland, South Australia and Western Australia reached their highest ratios in 2026.

Friday October 9, 2026

Building Approvals & Commencements Data

Starts per 100 Approvals: How Each State’s Dwelling Commencements Track Its Approvals

From 2011 to 2025, 98.4 dwellings were begun in Australia for every 100 approved, and every state finished within a few points of one start per approval. In the year to June 2026 the states diverged: Victoria 103.2, Queensland 94.1,...

Friday October 9, 2026

Months of Pipeline: How Long the Dwellings Under Construction Would Take to Complete

Economic Factors

Months of Pipeline: How Long the Dwellings Under Construction Would Take to Complete

At the June quarter 2026 pace of completions, the 248,733 dwellings under construction would take 15.7 months to complete, fewer than a year earlier: completions rose 15.8% while the stock rose 10.8%.

Friday October 9, 2026

Construction & Development Pipeline Analysis

From Approval to Completion: Australia’s Dwelling Pipeline Stage by Stage

In the year to June 2026, 204,440 dwellings were commenced and 180,501 completed. With starts running ahead of completions, 248,733 dwellings were under construction at June 2026, the highest since the ABS series began in 1984.

Friday October 9, 2026

Rent Against Earnings in the June Quarter 2026: Five States Compared

Housing Affordability Analysis

Rent Against Earnings in the June Quarter 2026: Five States Compared

A new lease took 33.39% of a week’s full-time adult ordinary-time earnings in the June quarter 2026, up from 32.74% a year earlier. Rents rose faster than earnings in all five states, most of all in Tasmania.

Friday October 9, 2026

Fiscal Stress & Debt

Mortgage Repayments Against Income, Suburb by Suburb, 2021

At the 2021 Census the median mortgage repayment equalled about 24.6% of median household income. Suburb by suburb the ratio was highest in New South Wales and lowest in the ACT, measured when the cash rate was 0.10%.

Thursday October 8, 2026

Tenure Stability & Housing

Where Most Households Own, and Where They Do Not: Home Ownership by Suburb, 2021

Two-thirds of households owned their home at the 2021 Census, but in 660 localities fewer than half did, and 3.0 million people lived in them. Home ownership suburb by suburb, state by state.

Thursday October 8, 2026

Socio-Economic Advantage

The ABS Advantage Index: What It Measures and Where Localities Sit

The ABS Index of Relative Socio-economic Advantage and Disadvantage ranks areas from the Census. What it measures, how to read its scores, and how each state's residents were spread across it in 2021.

Thursday October 8, 2026

Labour Resilience & Jobs

Unemployment by Suburb at the 2021 Census

On Census night 2021, 5.1% of the labour force were unemployed. Suburb by suburb the rate ranged far wider, and 392 localities, home to 1.0 million people, had rates of 10% or more.

Thursday October 8, 2026

Income Velocity & Wealth

Household Income Across Australia’s Suburbs in 2021

The median Australian household earned $1,746 a week at the 2021 Census. Across suburbs the median ran from about $1,000 to $2,400 or more, and where people lived on that range differed sharply by state.

Thursday October 8, 2026

APN Enabling Infrastructure Index™

Public Groundwork in the June Quarter 2026: Electricity Down, Water and Sewerage at Records

Public engineering work on roads, water, sewerage and electricity grew 4.3% over the year to June 2026, below its long-run average. Electricity work fell 5.8% while water, sewerage and roads each reached the largest quarter in a series that begins...

Thursday October 8, 2026

APN Bedrock™

The Socio-Economic Ladder, State by State: Where Australians Lived in 2021

At the 2021 Census, more than half of ACT residents lived in Australia's most advantaged fifth of localities, and a third of Tasmanians in the least advantaged fifth. Each state's residents on the national socio-economic ladder.

Wednesday October 7, 2026

Advantage, Safety and Services: Which Neighbourhood Conditions Go Together

APN Social Capital Index™

Advantage, Safety and Services: Which Neighbourhood Conditions Go Together

Across 6,782 Australian localities, socio-economic position goes with safety and education but not with local amenity or resilience to natural hazards. What the five pillars of the APN Social Capital Index show when set side by side.

Wednesday October 7, 2026

Building Approvals & Commencements Data

Dwelling Approvals, August 2026: Houses Lead a Rising Year

Australia approved 208,184 new homes in the 12 months to August 2026, up 9.5% and the most since April 2022. House approvals led, while Queensland and Western Australia rose most among the larger states.

Wednesday October 7, 2026

Inflation

The August 2026 CPI: Housing Costs by Capital City

Consumer prices rose 4.0% over the year to August 2026 and housing costs 5.7%, from 4.5% in Melbourne to 7.9% in Adelaide. Electricity, new home prices and rents drove the differences between the capitals.

Wednesday October 7, 2026

APN Future Development Pipeline Index™

Is It Getting Harder to Build New Homes? Five Conditions in the June Quarter 2026

Conditions for turning land into new homes were less favourable in the June quarter 2026 than at any time since June 2023. Five measures show why: slower growth in development finance, a narrowing gap between prices and building costs, and...

Wednesday October 7, 2026

New-Lease Rents in the June Quarter 2026: Five States Compared

Rental Market Analysis

New-Lease Rents in the June Quarter 2026: Five States Compared

Rents on new leases rose 5.7% over the year to the June quarter 2026 across NSW, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia and Tasmania, fastest in Tasmania and WA. What the bond data show.

Tuesday October 6, 2026

Money for Building: Bank Credit for Land Development and Construction Since 2011

APN Development Finance Conditions™

Money for Building: Bank Credit for Land Development and Construction Since 2011

Lenders' credit limits for land development and new construction lending both reached series highs in the year to June 2026, yet APN Development Finance Conditions eased in the June quarter, because the index reads the pace of growth, not the...

Tuesday October 6, 2026

Planning Regulations

Measuring Planning in Australia: What the Data Can and Cannot Show

Of nine things a reader might want to measure about Australia's planning systems, a national figure exists for one. A guide to what is published, where each measure stops, and where APN covers it.

Tuesday October 6, 2026

Demographic Trend Analysis

Fewer Births: The Fall in Australia’s Fertility Rate

Australia’s total fertility rate was 1.481 babies per woman in 2024, the lowest since at least 1975 and down from 1.917 in 2011. The fall is concentrated among women under 35.

Monday October 5, 2026

Rental Market Regulations Analysis

Rents Where the Rules Changed: Bond Data Around Four Tenancy Reforms

Four states changed tenancy laws between June 2024 and May 2025. Rents on new tenancies kept rising in each, and every shift in pace was shared by another state over the same years.

Monday October 5, 2026

Development Application (DA) & Approval Process Analysis

Residential Development Applications in NSW: How Long a Decision Takes

The median time from lodgement to decision for NSW development applications proposing new homes fell from 96 days in the March quarter 2024 to 62 in the June quarter 2026, on the gross-day basis the state uses for its council...

Monday October 5, 2026

Development Application (DA) & Approval Process Analysis

How Long Does a Development Approval Take? What Each State Reports

Six states and territories reported a median development approval time to National Cabinet, from 18 to 146 days, on different day counts and pathways. Victoria’s own dashboard gives 70 calendar days for the same period. A national figure cannot be...

Monday October 5, 2026

Banking & Lending Regulation Analysis

New Housing Lending by Purpose Since 2019: Investors’ Share on Two Measures

Investors took 36.5% of new home lending funded in the June quarter 2026 on APRA’s figures, and 38.7% of new commitments on the ABS measure, which leaves out refinancing. Both peaked in September 2025: APRA’s highest since its collection began...

Monday October 5, 2026

Household Formation Trends

Living Alone, Couples and Families: Household Types Across Three Censuses

Lone-person households grew 25.5% between the 2011 and 2021 Censuses, against 15.9% for couples with children, which remain the most common type. In SA and Tasmania people living alone already outnumber couples with children.

Monday October 5, 2026

Heritage & Environmental Conservation Planning Analysis

Where Hazard Controls Are Mapped: Bushfire and Flood Planning Layers, State by State

Victoria has redrawn its bushfire prone area 26 times since 2011; the statewide NSW flood planning layer carries a 2019 edition date; Queensland’s floodplain overlay is an interim 2013 product. What each state maps, what it triggers, and why there...

Sunday October 4, 2026

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City, Regional and Remote: Where Australians Live by Remoteness, and How the Places Differ

Households Without a Car, and With Three or More: Motor Vehicles by State and Suburb at the 2021 Census

How Australians Got to Work on Census Day 2021: Car, Public Transport, Foot or Home, by State and Suburb

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