--- title: Median weekly rents by suburb and property type, Victoria resource: https://publicdata.au/d/vic-rents-by-suburb/ publisher: Homes Victoria licence: CC BY 4.0 licence_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ version: 2026-02-24 rows: 114639 fields: 6 source: https://www.dffh.vic.gov.au/moving-annual-rent-suburb-september-quarter-2025-excel source_sha256: 817c5b8ea7985651af84519149276ef0281f8b6cfa4bcada39ea8aa87ed2952e language: en-AU operator: National Digital not_endorsed: true --- # Median weekly rents by suburb and property type, Victoria The median weekly rent of new leases in each Victorian suburb and town, by property type, for each quarter since March 2000, with the number of leases. Published by Homes Victoria under CC BY 4.0 and republished here in other formats, with cells typed and suppressed values made null. Homes Victoria has not endorsed this site. Also called: Victorian Rental Report moving annual rents by suburb, Average rent in Melbourne by suburb, Melbourne median rent by suburb and property type, Homes Victoria rental data. ## Download Latest version, redirects to `https://publicdata.au/d/vic-rents-by-suburb/v/2026-02-24/`: - csv: https://publicdata.au/d/vic-rents-by-suburb/latest/data.csv (8.6 MB) - xlsx: https://publicdata.au/d/vic-rents-by-suburb/latest/data.xlsx (3.2 MB) - json: https://publicdata.au/d/vic-rents-by-suburb/latest/data.json (18 MB) - parquet: https://publicdata.au/d/vic-rents-by-suburb/latest/data.parquet (304 KB) - sqlite: https://publicdata.au/d/vic-rents-by-suburb/latest/data.sqlite (17 MB) - duckdb: https://publicdata.au/d/vic-rents-by-suburb/latest/data.duckdb (2.0 MB) - ndjson: https://publicdata.au/d/vic-rents-by-suburb/latest/data.ndjson (18 MB) - arrow: https://publicdata.au/d/vic-rents-by-suburb/latest/data.arrow (1.4 MB) - csv.gz: https://publicdata.au/d/vic-rents-by-suburb/latest/data.csv.gz (770 KB) Pinned version 2026-02-24: `https://publicdata.au/d/vic-rents-by-suburb/v/2026-02-24/data.`. Dated versions never change. ## Query The query API returns only the rows you ask for, as JSON, NDJSON or CSV, from the same typed rows as the files. It needs no key. Rows: https://publicdata.au/api/v1/datasets/vic-rents-by-suburb/rows. Counts and sums: https://publicdata.au/api/v1/datasets/vic-rents-by-suburb/aggregate. - Rows: https://publicdata.au/api/v1/datasets/vic-rents-by-suburb/rows?property_type=eq.2%20bedroom%20flat&year_ending=eq.2025-09-01&limit=5 - Aggregate: https://publicdata.au/api/v1/datasets/vic-rents-by-suburb/aggregate?group=suburb&metric=max.median_rent&property_type=eq.2%20bedroom%20flat&year_ending=eq.2025-09-01 Each filter is `field=operator.value` in the query string, and every filter must match. A number or date field compares as a number or date, and a text field compares as text. Values are case-sensitive except with `ilike`. Prefix `not.` to negate a filter, as `not.eq.value`. Operators: `eq.value`, `neq.value`, `gt.value`, `gte.value`, `lt.value`, `lte.value`, `like.*text*`, `ilike.*text*`, `in.(a,b,c)`, `is.null`. - `select`: Fields to return, comma-separated. Every field when absent. - `order`: `field.asc` or `field.desc`, comma-separated. The publisher's row order when absent. - `limit`: Rows per page, 1 to 10,000. 100 when absent. - `offset`: Rows to skip. The `next` URL in each answer sets it for you. - `group`: On `aggregate`, fields to group by, comma-separated. - `metric`: On `aggregate`, `count`, `sum.field`, `avg.field`, `min.field` or `max.field`, comma-separated. `count` when absent. - `format`: `json`, `ndjson` or `csv`. JSON carries the provenance header, and the others carry it in response headers. Without a version the API answers from the newest loaded version, and that answer changes when the publisher releases again. Put `versions//` before `rows` or `aggregate` for an answer that never changes. `/api/v1/datasets//versions` lists the loaded versions. The API allows 60 requests in 10 seconds from one address. Above that it answers 429 for 10 seconds with a `Retry-After` header, a `RateLimit-Policy` header and a JSON body that gives the limit. Every API answer carries the same `RateLimit-Policy`. A client should wait the `Retry-After` seconds, or read the files, which have no limit. OpenAPI for this dataset: https://publicdata.au/d/vic-rents-by-suburb/openapi.json ## Explore Charts and dashboards in the browser: https://publicdata.au/d/vic-rents-by-suburb/explore/. A dashboard can be shared as a link or embedded. ## Smaller files - by `property_type`: https://publicdata.au/d/vic-rents-by-suburb/v/2026-02-24/by/property_type/index.json lists 7 files ## Fields | field | type | publisher's header | note | |---|---|---|---| | `property_type` | string | (sheet) | | | `region` | string | (row header 1) | | | `suburb` | string | (row header 2) | | | `year_ending` | date | (column header 1) | First day of the month the twelve months end in. | | `new_lettings` | integer | (cell: Count) | | | `median_rent` | integer | (cell: Median) | | Key: `property_type, region, suburb, year_ending`. ## Versions - 2026-02-24: 114639 rows, 6 fields, sha256 817c5b8ea798. https://publicdata.au/d/vic-rents-by-suburb/v/2026-02-24/ Machine-readable: https://publicdata.au/d/vic-rents-by-suburb/versions.json, https://publicdata.au/d/vic-rents-by-suburb/changes.json, https://publicdata.au/d/vic-rents-by-suburb/datapackage.json, https://publicdata.au/d/vic-rents-by-suburb/schema.json, https://publicdata.au/d/vic-rents-by-suburb/history.tar.zst ## Same subject, other publishers - [Median weekly rents and bonds lodged by suburb, South Australia](https://publicdata.au/d/sa-private-rents-by-suburb/) (SA) - [Median weekly rents by suburb and dwelling type, Queensland](https://publicdata.au/d/qld-median-rents-by-suburb/) (Qld) - [Median weekly rents and bonds lodged by postcode, South Australia](https://publicdata.au/d/sa-private-rents-by-postcode/) (SA) - [Median house prices by suburb, Victoria](https://publicdata.au/d/vic-median-house-prices-by-suburb/) (Vic) - [Median unit prices by suburb, Victoria](https://publicdata.au/d/vic-median-unit-prices-by-suburb/) (Vic) - [Median vacant land prices by suburb, Victoria](https://publicdata.au/d/vic-median-vacant-land-prices-by-suburb/) (Vic) - [Median weekly rents by postcode and dwelling type, Queensland](https://publicdata.au/d/qld-median-rents-by-postcode/) (Qld) - [Median house sale prices by suburb, metropolitan Adelaide](https://publicdata.au/d/sa-metro-median-house-prices/) (SA) - [Rental bond lodgements, New South Wales, 2021](https://publicdata.au/d/nsw-rental-bond-lodgements-2021/) (NSW) - [Rental bond lodgements, New South Wales, 2022](https://publicdata.au/d/nsw-rental-bond-lodgements-2022/) (NSW) - [Rental bond refunds, New South Wales, 2021](https://publicdata.au/d/nsw-rental-bond-refunds-2021/) (NSW) - [Rental bond lodgements, New South Wales, 2024](https://publicdata.au/d/nsw-rental-bond-lodgements-2024/) (NSW) ## Attribution and citation Homes Victoria, Victorian Government, Rental Report - Quarterly - Moving Annual Rents by Suburb, sourced 29 September 2026, https://discover.data.vic.gov.au/dataset/rental-report-quarterly-moving-annual-rents-by-suburb, licensed under CC BY 4.0. The licence requires the publisher's attribution. We ask that you also name publicdata.au and link to the version you used. Plain text: Homes Victoria, Victorian Government, Rental Report - Quarterly - Moving Annual Rents by Suburb, sourced 29 September 2026, https://discover.data.vic.gov.au/dataset/rental-report-quarterly-moving-annual-rents-by-suburb, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Serialised and versioned by National Digital at publicdata.au, https://publicdata.au/d/vic-rents-by-suburb/v/2026-02-24/ Harvard: Homes Victoria (2026) Median weekly rents by suburb and property type, Victoria, version 2026-02-24 [data set], CC BY 4.0, sourced 29 September 2026. Serialised and versioned by National Digital at publicdata.au. Available at: https://publicdata.au/d/vic-rents-by-suburb/v/2026-02-24/ Markdown: Data: [Median weekly rents by suburb and property type, Victoria](https://discover.data.vic.gov.au/dataset/rental-report-quarterly-moving-annual-rents-by-suburb), Homes Victoria, [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), sourced 29 September 2026. Files: [publicdata.au](https://publicdata.au/d/vic-rents-by-suburb/v/2026-02-24/) by [National Digital](https://nationaldigital.com.au/). ## Questions ### How do I download Median weekly rents by suburb and property type as a CSV file? Open https://publicdata.au/d/vic-rents-by-suburb/latest/data.csv. It redirects to the newest dated version, which is https://publicdata.au/d/vic-rents-by-suburb/v/2026-02-24/data.csv today. The same path serves Excel, JSON, Parquet, SQLite, DuckDB, NDJSON, Arrow. A dated URL never changes, so use it when the file must stay the same. ### Can I open Median weekly rents by suburb and property type in Excel? Yes. https://publicdata.au/d/vic-rents-by-suburb/v/2026-02-24/data.xlsx is a workbook with the 114,639 rows on a records sheet, the field list on a second sheet and the provenance on a third. The CSV also opens in Excel. https://publicdata.au/d/vic-rents-by-suburb/v/2026-02-24/data.csv.gz is the CSV at about a tenth of the size. ### What years does Median weekly rents by suburb and property type cover? The current version covers 1999 to 2024. Each release from Homes Victoria becomes a new dated version here, and earlier versions stay online. ### How often is Median weekly rents by suburb and property type updated? Homes Victoria releases it quarterly. This site checks the portal every week and adds a dated version when the file changes. ### Can I use Median weekly rents by suburb and property type commercially? Yes. CC BY 4.0 allows commercial use, redistribution and derived works as long as the attribution is kept. The attribution string is in this page's side column and inside every file. ### Is this the official source for Median weekly rents by suburb and property type? No. The publisher is Homes Victoria, and its page is https://discover.data.vic.gov.au/dataset/rental-report-quarterly-moving-annual-rents-by-suburb. This site republishes the publisher's file without changing its content. The original sits beside every version as source.xlsx with its SHA-256, so the two can be compared. ### How do I get only the rows for one property type? Every version has one JSON file per value of property_type, 7 files in the current version, listed with row counts at https://publicdata.au/d/vic-rents-by-suburb/v/2026-02-24/by/property_type/index.json. For example https://publicdata.au/d/vic-rents-by-suburb/v/2026-02-24/by/property_type/1-bedroom-flat.json holds the 16,377 rows where property_type is 1 bedroom flat. ### What is a moving annual median? Each figure is the median weekly rent of the new leases that began in the twelve months ending in the quarter named, beside the count of those leases. A row dated March 2025 covers leases that began from April 2024 to March 2025. ### What does a blank median mean? The publisher shows a dash where it gives no figure for a suburb and property type. The dash is kept here as a null value in both the count and the median. ### What are the Group Total rows? Each region ends with the publisher's own total row, named Group Total in the suburb column. It is kept as published. ## What this site did to the data Cells were typed, headers were renamed to snake_case and the encoding was made UTF-8. Rows were left alone. Nothing is derived. The publisher's file is beside every version as `source.xlsx`. ## Improve this dataset This page is built from [register/vic-rents-by-suburb.yaml](https://github.com/National-Digital/publicdata.au/blob/main/register/vic-rents-by-suburb.yaml) on GitHub, and a fix to it is welcome as a pull request. https://publicdata.au/contribute/ explains how.