Australian Rent Benchmarks
Compare your rent with Australian suburb rental benchmarks, property prices and local incomes.
Enter a suburb, property type and weekly rent to see how it compares with median house prices, real reported rents from state rental authorities, and rental affordability against local household incomes — a useful sense-check when reviewing rent, without pretending there is one “correct” market rent.
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That's $33,800 per year.
Select a property type to see how this rent compares to the local benchmark for similar properties.
Size of increase
Significant increase+8.3%From $600 to $650 per week
Affordability vs local households
Not enough data—
Select a suburb to benchmark the proposed rent against local household incomes.
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View pricingContext only, not advice or a legal rent-setting tool. Affordability compares your proposed rent to the suburb's median household income (ABS Census 2021) — not to comparable market rents or any individual tenant. Nearby suburbs are grouped by the local government area they sit in, not by distance or shared borders. Australian suburbs only. Always check your state or territory's rules on rent increases.
How to read the result
A rent review is a judgement call. These two signals give it some objective grounding, but neither is a rule.
Affordability vs local households
Annual rent ÷ suburb median household income
Housing costs above roughly 30% of income are the widely-used marker for housing stress. We compare your proposed rent to what a typical household in that suburb earns (from the ABS Census), so you can see whether it sits comfortably within local incomes or towards the top of them. It is a market-context signal, not a statement about your actual tenant — whose income you wouldn't usually know.
Size of the increase
(Proposed − current) ÷ current × 100
Separate from affordability, this is simply how big a jump the review represents. Smaller, regular adjustments are generally easier for tenants to absorb and less likely to trigger a dispute than a single large step. A large increase isn't wrong, but it's worth backing up with evidence of comparable local listings.
What this tool does not do
- It doesn't quote comparable market rents — Akweno isn't a rent-index provider. It benchmarks against local incomes and demographics only.
- It isn't legal or financial advice, and it doesn't reflect your state or territory's specific rules on how often and by how much rent can rise.
- Census data is a point-in-time snapshot (ABS 2021), so treat it as broad context rather than a live market read.
- It covers Australian suburbs only for now.
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