dwellings per quarter - Source frequency: quarterly · Methodology · Corrections
Australia's new dwelling completions was 38k dwellings per quarter as of January 2026. Number of new residential dwellings completed each quarter, nationally and by state. Insufficient housing supply drives up prices and rents. Completions measure whether supply is keeping pace with population growth. Data is sourced from ABS Building Activity, Australia (Cat. 8752.0) and updated quarterly.
Number of new residential dwellings completed each quarter, nationally and by state.
Insufficient housing supply drives up prices and rents. Completions measure whether supply is keeping pace with population growth.
This data is sourced programmatically from official statistical APIs and data feeds (ABS Building Activity, Australia (Cat. 8752.0)), updated quarterly. The source link above points to the human-readable publication page, which presents the same underlying data in a different format (e.g. Excel workbook, PDF release). Our pipeline fetches the machine-readable version automatically and converts it to the standardised format shown here.
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