Australia economic indicators
Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics · Checked
Inflation rate
Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics · series CPI 3.10001.10.50.M · 18 published readings held, Apr 2025 to Sep 2026 · Open the source table · Year-on-year change in the monthly Consumer Price Index, all groups.
Where a Money Snap calculator works on the same figure, the row carries an Open calculator link. Most series have no matching calculator and carry none.
Change pills and trend lines show direction only — teal for a rise, red for a fall — and are not a view on whether a move helps or hurts you. Figures are reproduced from the Australian Bureau of Statistics without adjustment; nothing here is estimated, smoothed or interpolated. The ABS Data API publishes no release date, so each row is dated by its reference period only. The freshest series here runs to Oct 2026 and the slowest to 5 Nov 2026. Always check the official release before relying on a figure.
One table, one source, no estimates
Every figure below is reproduced exactly as the Australian Bureau of Statistics published it. Money Snap adds no forecasts, no seasonal adjustment of its own and no gap filling.
Dated by reference period only
Unlike most statistics agencies, the ABS Data API does not publish a release timestamp — the only freshness fact it exposes is the period a figure refers to. So each row here is dated by its reference period and nothing else. The monthly series land within weeks; the population estimate runs about nine months behind and is always the oldest figure on the page.
Colour means direction, not judgement
Teal marks a rise on the previous published reading and red marks a fall. Whether that is welcome depends entirely on your position — a higher mean dwelling price helps an owner and hurts a first home buyer — so the colour never implies good or bad.
Two ABS series were discontinued
Retail turnover ended in June 2025 and the Residential Property Price Index ended in December 2021. Rather than carry a frozen number or substitute something that measures a different thing without saying so, this page uses the ABS replacements and labels them: household spending in place of retail turnover, and the mean price of residential dwellings — a stock valuation, not a price index — in place of the property index.
Where these figures show up
Several of these series feed the Money Snap calculators directly. Open the one that matches what you are working out.
Which indicator matters to me?
Pick the situation closest to yours and go straight to the series behind it.
I am saving for a first home
Mean dwelling prices set the deposit you are chasing, and first home buyer loan commitments show how many people are actually getting in each month.
I want to know if building is keeping up
Dwelling approvals are the earliest signal of future supply — they move months before commencements and years before completions.
My mortgage rate moves with the RBA
The cash rate target is the rate every variable home loan is priced off. Lenders set their own margin on top, so the two move together but are not the same number.
I am negotiating a pay rise
The Wage Price Index is what wages did across the economy, stripped of changes in who is working where. Set it beside inflation to see whether a rise keeps up.
I am wondering how tight the job market is
The unemployment rate is the headline, but underemployment counts people who have work and want more hours — together they show how much slack there really is.
My bills keep rising
The monthly inflation rate is the 12-month change in the Consumer Price Index — the broadest measure of what households pay across the whole basket.
I want the inflation reading the RBA watches
Trimmed mean inflation removes the largest price moves in both directions each period, so it shows the trend without one volatile item dominating it.
I am watching whether households are pulling back
Discretionary household spending is the part of the budget people can cut first, so it turns before total spending does.
I am judging where the economy is heading
GDP growth per quarter is the broad measure of output. GDP per person strips out population growth, which is why the two can point different ways.
I am building a retirement buffer
The household saving ratio is the share of household income not spent. It sets the backdrop for how much room people have to put money aside.
No situation matches that filter.
Common questions
Every series is pulled straight from the Australian Bureau of Statistics Data API, the ABS’s own machine-readable service. The source line under each chart names the exact dataflow and series key the figure came from, and links to that series in the API, so any number here can be traced back to the ABS record it reproduces.
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Official data sources
Every figure above is dated individually by its ABS reference period. The ABS Data API publishes no release timestamp, so no single verification date applies to the page.