{
 "publisher": "DwellDelta, a service of Xcelerent Pty Ltd",
 "built": "2026-11-03",
 "state": "ACT",
 "state_name": "Australian Capital Territory",
 "measure": "interim_rent_cover",
 "interim": true,
 "what": "Australian Capital Territory interim rent cover, from ABS data: median weekly rent paid in each postal area at the 2021 Census, the ABS rents index for Canberra since 2022, and median dwelling sale prices for the latest quarter. No rents from bond lodgements are held for the Australian Capital Territory.",
 "why_interim": "Every other state's rents file gives the median rent of new bonds lodged in a quarter, from its bond authority. No such data is held for the Australian Capital Territory; this file stands in until it is, and is a different kind of file, with fields named for what they are.",
 "periods": {
  "census_2021": "Census night, 2021-08-10 (10 August 2021)",
  "cpi_rents": "July 2022 to September 2026",
  "dwelling_prices": "June 2026 quarter"
 },
 "licence": "CC BY 4.0",
 "licence_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
 "rights_holder": "Commonwealth of Australia (Australian Bureau of Statistics)",
 "source_notice": "https://www.abs.gov.au/website-privacy-copyright-and-disclaimer",
 "attribution": "Based on Australian Bureau of Statistics data. ABS data used with permission from the Australian Bureau of Statistics. Census of Population and Housing 2021, General Community Profile DataPack, Postal Areas, tables G02 and G40 (accessed 2026-09-22); Consumer Price Index, Australia (6401.0), Table 10, release sep-2026; Total Value of Dwellings (6432.0), Table 2, release jun-quarter-2026. Licensed under CC BY 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. www.abs.gov.au",
 "changes_made": "Selected by DwellDelta: the G02 median weekly rent for each Australian Capital Territory postal area as the ABS publishes it (0, where the ABS gives no median, is null here), and G40's count of renting households. Calculated by DwellDelta from G40: renting households who stated their rent; the three landlord shares (census_2021_private_landlord_share_pct, census_2021_social_landlord_share_pct and census_2021_other_landlord_share_pct), each of the sum of G40's five landlord-type cells; and the two flags, mostly_not_private_rentals and small_census_sample, which are DwellDelta's own marks, not the ABS's. From CPI Table 10: the year change and the change since the series began, calculated from the ABS's index. From Total Value of Dwellings Table 2: the ABS's figures, $'000 shown in dollars.",
 "limits": [
  "Interim, and not like the other states' rents files: no figure here is a rent of new bonds lodged in a quarter, an advertised rent, or what a home rents for today.",
  "The Census figures are of Census night, 2021-08-10 (10 August 2021), more than five years old: the median weekly rent paid by households renting a private dwelling on Census night who stated their rent, on new and old leases alike (the ABS leaves out 'Visitors only' and 'Other non-classifiable' households and dwellings 'Occupied rent-free'). Rents have moved since; the 2026 Census, when the ABS releases it, will replace them.",
  "Every landlord is in the Census median: a real estate agent or a private person (the private market), a state or territory housing authority or a community housing provider (social housing, whose rents are usually set below the market), and what the Census calls 'other landlord type' (residential parks, and employers, Defence Housing Australia among them). Where few households rent privately the median can sit far below a market rent. The three census_2021_*_landlord_share_pct fields, calculated by DwellDelta, give each group's share of the renting households G40 counts under a stated landlord type - the sum of its five landlord-type cells, so the three add to 100 but for rounding (null where that sum, or G40's count of renting households less those whose landlord type is not stated, is under 20). A postal area where under 50% rent privately is flagged mostly_not_private_rentals (null where there is no share) - do not quote its median as a market rent. In this file: 2609.",
  "The ABS adjusts every Census count slightly at random to protect confidentiality. A postal area whose median rests on fewer than 30 renting households who stated their rent, or that has no median, is flagged small_census_sample.",
  "Postal areas are the ABS's approximations of postcodes, placed in a state by their number. The ABS lists the ones that cross a border: 2611, 2618, whose figures take in the whole postal area across the border (crosses_border says which states).",
  "The rents index (cpi_rents) measures CHANGE in what tenants pay in Canberra, across new and continuing leases; it is not a dollar rent and its level means nothing alone. Its monthly series begins July 2022, after Census night, so it cannot carry a 2021 rent forward to today, and nothing in this file does: no current rent is estimated.",
  "The dwelling prices are median SALE prices of the homes transferred in the June 2026 quarter, for Canberra as a whole - not rents, no suburb or postcode, and not a mean price. The ABS revises recent quarters in later releases; the file names the release it read.",
  "Do not divide one figure by another: the rents are of August 2021 and the prices of the June 2026 quarter, so no rental yield can be read from this file.",
  "DwellDelta is not connected with, sponsored by or endorsed by the Australian Bureau of Statistics.",
  "Information, not financial or tenancy advice."
 ],
 "census_2021": {
  "period": "Census night, 2021-08-10 (10 August 2021)",
  "census_date": "2021-08-10",
  "source": "ABS Census of Population and Housing 2021, General Community Profile DataPack, Postal Areas: table G02 (Selected Medians and Averages) for the median weekly rent, table G40 (Rent (weekly) by Landlord Type) for renting households and their landlords.",
  "accessed": "2026-09-22",
  "measures": "the median weekly rent paid on Census night by households renting a private dwelling who stated their rent - leases new and old, whoever the landlord, social and community housing included; the ABS leaves out 'Visitors only' and 'Other non-classifiable' households and dwellings 'Occupied rent-free'",
  "postcodes": [
   {
    "postcode": "2600",
    "census_2021_median_weekly_rent_aud": 540,
    "census_2021_renting_households": 986,
    "census_2021_renting_households_rent_stated": 967,
    "census_2021_private_landlord_share_pct": 85.6,
    "census_2021_social_landlord_share_pct": 11.7,
    "census_2021_other_landlord_share_pct": 2.7,
    "mostly_not_private_rentals": false,
    "small_census_sample": false
   },
   {
    "postcode": "2601",
    "census_2021_median_weekly_rent_aud": 550,
    "census_2021_renting_households": 1110,
    "census_2021_renting_households_rent_stated": 1092,
    "census_2021_private_landlord_share_pct": 97.6,
    "census_2021_social_landlord_share_pct": 1.0,
    "census_2021_other_landlord_share_pct": 1.4,
    "mostly_not_private_rentals": false,
    "small_census_sample": false
   },
   {
    "postcode": "2602",
    "census_2021_median_weekly_rent_aud": 436,
    "census_2021_renting_households": 5133,
    "census_2021_renting_households_rent_stated": 4989,
    "census_2021_private_landlord_share_pct": 72.3,
    "census_2021_social_landlord_share_pct": 24.1,
    "census_2021_other_landlord_share_pct": 3.6,
    "mostly_not_private_rentals": false,
    "small_census_sample": false
   },
   {
    "postcode": "2603",
    "census_2021_median_weekly_rent_aud": 481,
    "census_2021_renting_households": 1399,
    "census_2021_renting_households_rent_stated": 1364,
    "census_2021_private_landlord_share_pct": 86.8,
    "census_2021_social_landlord_share_pct": 10.1,
    "census_2021_other_landlord_share_pct": 3.1,
    "mostly_not_private_rentals": false,
    "small_census_sample": false
   },
   {
    "postcode": "2604",
    "census_2021_median_weekly_rent_aud": 500,
    "census_2021_renting_households": 2555,
    "census_2021_renting_households_rent_stated": 2492,
    "census_2021_private_landlord_share_pct": 83.4,
    "census_2021_social_landlord_share_pct": 14.2,
    "census_2021_other_landlord_share_pct": 2.5,
    "mostly_not_private_rentals": false,
    "small_census_sample": false
   },
   {
    "postcode": "2605",
    "census_2021_median_weekly_rent_aud": 490,
    "census_2021_renting_households": 1134,
    "census_2021_renting_households_rent_stated": 1097,
    "census_2021_private_landlord_share_pct": 79.5,
    "census_2021_social_landlord_share_pct": 17.8,
    "census_2021_other_landlord_share_pct": 2.7,
    "mostly_not_private_rentals": false,
    "small_census_sample": false
   },
   {
    "postcode": "2606",
    "census_2021_median_weekly_rent_aud": 430,
    "census_2021_renting_households": 2242,
    "census_2021_renting_households_rent_stated": 2175,
    "census_2021_private_landlord_share_pct": 86.7,
    "census_2021_social_landlord_share_pct": 9.7,
    "census_2021_other_landlord_share_pct": 3.6,
    "mostly_not_private_rentals": false,
    "small_census_sample": false
   },
   {
    "postcode": "2607",
    "census_2021_median_weekly_rent_aud": 440,
    "census_2021_renting_households": 1345,
    "census_2021_renting_households_rent_stated": 1296,
    "census_2021_private_landlord_share_pct": 74.9,
    "census_2021_social_landlord_share_pct": 21.8,
    "census_2021_other_landlord_share_pct": 3.3,
    "mostly_not_private_rentals": false,
    "small_census_sample": false
   },
   {
    "postcode": "2609",
    "census_2021_median_weekly_rent_aud": 322,
    "census_2021_renting_households": 145,
    "census_2021_renting_households_rent_stated": 139,
    "census_2021_private_landlord_share_pct": 40.6,
    "census_2021_social_landlord_share_pct": 13.3,
    "census_2021_other_landlord_share_pct": 46.2,
    "mostly_not_private_rentals": true,
    "small_census_sample": false
   },
   {
    "postcode": "2611",
    "census_2021_median_weekly_rent_aud": 450,
    "census_2021_renting_households": 3005,
    "census_2021_renting_households_rent_stated": 2893,
    "census_2021_private_landlord_share_pct": 67.2,
    "census_2021_social_landlord_share_pct": 27.6,
    "census_2021_other_landlord_share_pct": 5.2,
    "mostly_not_private_rentals": false,
    "small_census_sample": false,
    "crosses_border": "allocated to Australian Capital Territory by the ABS; takes in New South Wales, Australian Capital Territory"
   },
   {
    "postcode": "2612",
    "census_2021_median_weekly_rent_aud": 490,
    "census_2021_renting_households": 4281,
    "census_2021_renting_households_rent_stated": 4192,
    "census_2021_private_landlord_share_pct": 83.6,
    "census_2021_social_landlord_share_pct": 10.6,
    "census_2021_other_landlord_share_pct": 5.8,
    "mostly_not_private_rentals": false,
    "small_census_sample": false
   },
   {
    "postcode": "2614",
    "census_2021_median_weekly_rent_aud": 418,
    "census_2021_renting_households": 2060,
    "census_2021_renting_households_rent_stated": 1974,
    "census_2021_private_landlord_share_pct": 74.9,
    "census_2021_social_landlord_share_pct": 22.0,
    "census_2021_other_landlord_share_pct": 3.1,
    "mostly_not_private_rentals": false,
    "small_census_sample": false
   },
   {
    "postcode": "2615",
    "census_2021_median_weekly_rent_aud": 420,
    "census_2021_renting_households": 3849,
    "census_2021_renting_households_rent_stated": 3677,
    "census_2021_private_landlord_share_pct": 63.1,
    "census_2021_social_landlord_share_pct": 33.6,
    "census_2021_other_landlord_share_pct": 3.4,
    "mostly_not_private_rentals": false,
    "small_census_sample": false
   },
   {
    "postcode": "2617",
    "census_2021_median_weekly_rent_aud": 440,
    "census_2021_renting_households": 5860,
    "census_2021_renting_households_rent_stated": 5697,
    "census_2021_private_landlord_share_pct": 83.6,
    "census_2021_social_landlord_share_pct": 11.8,
    "census_2021_other_landlord_share_pct": 4.6,
    "mostly_not_private_rentals": false,
    "small_census_sample": false
   },
   {
    "postcode": "2618",
    "census_2021_median_weekly_rent_aud": 449,
    "census_2021_renting_households": 73,
    "census_2021_renting_households_rent_stated": 70,
    "census_2021_private_landlord_share_pct": 91.7,
    "census_2021_social_landlord_share_pct": 8.3,
    "census_2021_other_landlord_share_pct": 0.0,
    "mostly_not_private_rentals": false,
    "small_census_sample": false,
    "crosses_border": "allocated to Australian Capital Territory by the ABS; takes in New South Wales, Australian Capital Territory"
   },
   {
    "postcode": "2900",
    "census_2021_median_weekly_rent_aud": 450,
    "census_2021_renting_households": 813,
    "census_2021_renting_households_rent_stated": 795,
    "census_2021_private_landlord_share_pct": 89.0,
    "census_2021_social_landlord_share_pct": 9.8,
    "census_2021_other_landlord_share_pct": 1.2,
    "mostly_not_private_rentals": false,
    "small_census_sample": false
   },
   {
    "postcode": "2902",
    "census_2021_median_weekly_rent_aud": 400,
    "census_2021_renting_households": 1234,
    "census_2021_renting_households_rent_stated": 1161,
    "census_2021_private_landlord_share_pct": 54.5,
    "census_2021_social_landlord_share_pct": 42.8,
    "census_2021_other_landlord_share_pct": 2.7,
    "mostly_not_private_rentals": false,
    "small_census_sample": false
   },
   {
    "postcode": "2903",
    "census_2021_median_weekly_rent_aud": 400,
    "census_2021_renting_households": 746,
    "census_2021_renting_households_rent_stated": 712,
    "census_2021_private_landlord_share_pct": 58.1,
    "census_2021_social_landlord_share_pct": 41.0,
    "census_2021_other_landlord_share_pct": 0.9,
    "mostly_not_private_rentals": false,
    "small_census_sample": false
   },
   {
    "postcode": "2904",
    "census_2021_median_weekly_rent_aud": 462,
    "census_2021_renting_households": 691,
    "census_2021_renting_households_rent_stated": 666,
    "census_2021_private_landlord_share_pct": 71.9,
    "census_2021_social_landlord_share_pct": 26.6,
    "census_2021_other_landlord_share_pct": 1.5,
    "mostly_not_private_rentals": false,
    "small_census_sample": false
   },
   {
    "postcode": "2905",
    "census_2021_median_weekly_rent_aud": 430,
    "census_2021_renting_households": 2122,
    "census_2021_renting_households_rent_stated": 2035,
    "census_2021_private_landlord_share_pct": 66.0,
    "census_2021_social_landlord_share_pct": 31.1,
    "census_2021_other_landlord_share_pct": 2.9,
    "mostly_not_private_rentals": false,
    "small_census_sample": false
   },
   {
    "postcode": "2906",
    "census_2021_median_weekly_rent_aud": 410,
    "census_2021_renting_households": 1177,
    "census_2021_renting_households_rent_stated": 1136,
    "census_2021_private_landlord_share_pct": 63.8,
    "census_2021_social_landlord_share_pct": 30.1,
    "census_2021_other_landlord_share_pct": 6.1,
    "mostly_not_private_rentals": false,
    "small_census_sample": false
   },
   {
    "postcode": "2911",
    "census_2021_median_weekly_rent_aud": 460,
    "census_2021_renting_households": 571,
    "census_2021_renting_households_rent_stated": 552,
    "census_2021_private_landlord_share_pct": 67.8,
    "census_2021_social_landlord_share_pct": 12.1,
    "census_2021_other_landlord_share_pct": 20.0,
    "mostly_not_private_rentals": false,
    "small_census_sample": false
   },
   {
    "postcode": "2912",
    "census_2021_median_weekly_rent_aud": 450,
    "census_2021_renting_households": 1695,
    "census_2021_renting_households_rent_stated": 1663,
    "census_2021_private_landlord_share_pct": 82.3,
    "census_2021_social_landlord_share_pct": 7.9,
    "census_2021_other_landlord_share_pct": 9.8,
    "mostly_not_private_rentals": false,
    "small_census_sample": false
   },
   {
    "postcode": "2913",
    "census_2021_median_weekly_rent_aud": 460,
    "census_2021_renting_households": 3977,
    "census_2021_renting_households_rent_stated": 3849,
    "census_2021_private_landlord_share_pct": 78.7,
    "census_2021_social_landlord_share_pct": 12.7,
    "census_2021_other_landlord_share_pct": 8.7,
    "mostly_not_private_rentals": false,
    "small_census_sample": false
   },
   {
    "postcode": "2914",
    "census_2021_median_weekly_rent_aud": 480,
    "census_2021_renting_households": 3452,
    "census_2021_renting_households_rent_stated": 3360,
    "census_2021_private_landlord_share_pct": 72.4,
    "census_2021_social_landlord_share_pct": 13.6,
    "census_2021_other_landlord_share_pct": 13.9,
    "mostly_not_private_rentals": false,
    "small_census_sample": false
   }
  ]
 },
 "cpi_rents": {
  "city": "Canberra",
  "source": "ABS Consumer Price Index, Australia (6401.0), Table 10: rents index, Canberra, monthly, original",
  "release": "sep-2026",
  "series_id": "A130395218J",
  "measures": "an index of change in what tenants pay across new and continuing leases in Canberra - not a dollar rent, and not an advertised rent; its level means nothing alone",
  "period": "July 2022 to September 2026",
  "latest_month": "2026-09",
  "index_latest_month": 101.4,
  "year_change_pct": 1.4,
  "year_change_period": "September 2025 to September 2026",
  "first_month": "2022-07",
  "index_first_month": 95.0,
  "change_since_first_month_pct": 6.7,
  "change_since_first_month_period": "July 2022 to September 2026"
 },
 "dwelling_prices": {
  "source": "ABS Total Value of Dwellings (6432.0), Table 2: median price and number of transfers, established houses and attached dwellings, original, by capital city and rest of state",
  "release": "jun-quarter-2026",
  "measures": "median SALE price of the established houses and of the attached dwellings transferred in the quarter, and how many were - sale prices, not rents, and not a mean price",
  "period": "June 2026 quarter",
  "places": [
   {
    "region": "Canberra",
    "latest": {
     "quarter_ending": "2026-06",
     "quarter_name": "June 2026 quarter",
     "median_price_established_houses_aud": 1030000,
     "established_house_transfers": 1061,
     "median_price_attached_dwellings_aud": 615000,
     "attached_dwelling_transfers": 1143
    },
    "year_before": {
     "quarter_ending": "2025-06",
     "quarter_name": "June 2025 quarter",
     "median_price_established_houses_aud": 1000000,
     "established_house_transfers": 1043,
     "median_price_attached_dwellings_aud": 605000,
     "attached_dwelling_transfers": 1151
    }
   }
  ]
 }
}