AUD - Source frequency: quarterly · Methodology · Corrections
Australia's median home price was $1,056,534 as of June 2026. Mean price of residential dwellings: the value of dwellings owned by households divided by the number of dwellings, nationally (RBA Table E1) and by state (ABS, the same calculation). A mean, not a median, and it counts households' dwellings only: the Northern Territory figure is about 17% below ABS's all-sector mean price because households own a smaller share of its dwelling value. Housing affordability is one of the most significant quality-of-life issues in Australia. Rising prices make home ownership harder for younger Australians. Data is sourced from National: RBA Table E1 (derived: household dwelling value ÷ dwelling stock). States: ABS Total Value of Dwellings, RES_DWELL_ST (household dwelling value ÷ number of dwellings), the same quantities. and updated quarterly.
Mean price of residential dwellings: the value of dwellings owned by households divided by the number of dwellings, nationally (RBA Table E1) and by state (ABS, the same calculation). A mean, not a median, and it counts households' dwellings only: the Northern Territory figure is about 17% below ABS's all-sector mean price because households own a smaller share of its dwelling value.
Housing affordability is one of the most significant quality-of-life issues in Australia. Rising prices make home ownership harder for younger Australians.
This data is sourced programmatically from official statistical APIs and data feeds (National: RBA Table E1 (derived: household dwelling value ÷ dwelling stock). States: ABS Total Value of Dwellings, RES_DWELL_ST (household dwelling value ÷ number of dwellings), the same quantities.), 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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