APRIQ is building a national evidence system for Australian property. It assembles what Australian governments publish about housing — population, migration, dwelling approvals, construction and achieved rents — into one record where every figure can be traced to the file its publisher released, and shows it as one page per market for 1,687 suburbs, postcodes and council areas.
It exists to answer four questions, in order, and to be checkable at each one.
How fast a market’s population is growing, how much housing is being permitted and finished, and what tenants are actually paying. Live today, for every market with a page.
Where the population change came from — natural increase, people arriving from elsewhere in Australia, people arriving from overseas — and how far the approved pipeline is converting into homes. Live today, where the evidence exists at a defensible geography.
Under construction, behind published validation gates. APRIQ will not claim to know the future; it will estimate how likely different futures are from the evidence available today, and publish the uncertainty beside the estimate.
The reason the archive exists. A forecast made in 2026 can only be graded in 2027 by someone who kept what they said, when they said it, and what the data looked like at the time. Predictions here will be immutable, and the misses will stay up.
The pillar that connects those questions is Housing Balance: where is housing demand coming from, how quickly is supply actually being delivered, and how are rents responding? It appears on every market page as a set of separate readings rather than one score — because a single number would hide which of its inputs was doing the work, and could not be argued with.
What APRIQ deliberately does not do is put a figure on how many homes a place is short. That calculation is usually population growth divided by an average household size, and it is wrong in a way that is invisible in its own output: the average is national and the places are not, and a student suburb and a retirement coast do not form households at the same rate. It is also the most quotable number this site could publish, which is exactly why it is prohibited by a check rather than by good intentions.
APRIQ keeps a complete evidence chain behind every figure — the organisation, the file, the retrieval, its hash, and every transformation applied. Source files are stored by content hash before anything reads them and are never overwritten, so a figure can always be re-checked against the bytes that were published. What a page shows you is the evidence type, geography, timing and quality, with the publisher named wherever its licence requires it or naming it helps — which today is every source APRIQ holds.
Every classification says the rule that produced it and shows the figures underneath. You are not asked to trust a verdict; you can follow it to the arithmetic and disagree.
A suburb is not a statistical area and a postcode is not a council. Where a figure was measured for a wider area, the page says so and names that area. Where it was apportioned in by an official correspondence, it says that, shows the weights, and is rounded rather than printed to the person.
Insufficient evidence is a stated result, not a blank. A market APRIQ cannot describe says which input is missing — because a blank leaves you unable to tell an unremarkable market from an unmeasured one.
Australia’s housing argument reduces to “migration caused the crisis” or “migration is not the problem”. APRIQ takes neither side. It holds the components beside supply and rents, dated, and lets the evidence be argued with.
Where a state publishes nothing, APRIQ publishes nothing. There is no modelled infill, no scraped listings, no survey panel, and no distributing a state figure across suburbs to make every market look complete.
Every figure is what a tenant started paying on a lodged bond — not an asking price, not an estimate. Advertised rents record what landlords hoped for; bonds record what happened.
Every number comes from a state government release. Where a state publishes nothing, APRIQ publishes nothing. No scraped listings, no survey panels, no modelled infill.
No account, no key, no tier that unlocks the real data. Every page and the JSON API behind it are open, under the licences each figure lists.
Every figure on this site comes from an openly licensed government release, and each one carries its publisher, its licence, the date it was retrieved and the hash of the file it came from. You are not asked to trust the page; you can pull the file.
The same rule will apply to anything APRIQ estimates rather than observes. A published forecast stays published, with what it assumed and how it fared, whether it was right or wrong.
| Not a listings site | There are no properties here, for rent or for sale, and no agents. APRIQ describes markets after leases begin; it plays no part in any transaction. |
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| Not a forecast, yet | Every figure on the site today records leases that have already started. Nothing is projected, modelled or extrapolated into a prediction. Forecasting is being built, and when it appears it will carry its probability, its uncertainty and its record of past accuracy — or it will not appear. |
| Not advice | A suburb median describes a few hundred bonds, not your lease, your property or your decision. Treat it as a fact to reason from, not a recommendation to act on. |
| Not complete | Western Australia, the Northern Territory and the ACT publish no usable rent data, so their pages are empty and say so. An empty page states a fact about the publisher; a filled-in one would be an invention. |
Read from the database when this page was built, so it cannot fall out of step with the rest of the site. Each state publishes on its own schedule and none of them tells us in advance, so this says what has arrived and nothing about when the next release will.
| State | Published at | Figures current to |
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| New South Wales | council area, postcode | June quarter 2026 |
| Queensland | council area, suburb, postcode | June quarter 2026 |
| South Australia | suburb, postcode | June quarter 2026 |
| Tasmania | suburb, postcode | June quarter 2026 |
| Victoria | suburb | September quarter 2025 |
If a figure on APRIQ is wrong, the fault is ours and the correction is published rather than argued. Every figure names the file it was built from, so a claim can be checked before it is disputed — the method page lists every source and its licence, and each market page offers its own numbers as a CSV to hold against the publisher’s own workbook.
Figures on this site are drawn from state government releases and republished under their licences; each one lists its source, retrieval date and file hash. APRIQ is an independently owned public resource, a separate entity from any business that cites its data. No data vendor owns it, nobody pays to appear here, and nothing on the site is for sale. Method, sources and licences.