Rental Affordability Index
An indicator of rental affordability relative to household incomes.
An indicator of rental affordability relative to household incomes.
Our Rental Affordability Index website page gives insight into the latest report released by National Shelter, Beyond Bank, Brotherhood of St Laurence and SGS Economics and Planning.
The RAI is a price index for housing rental markets. It is an indicator of rental affordability relative to household incomes and is applied to geographic areas across Australia. This report presents the findings of the November 2021 release of the RAI. It provides an update of the November 2020 RAI report by providing analysis of data from the four most recent available quarters (September and December 2020, March, and June 2021). The report relies on rental bond data up to and including the June quarter of 2021.
Important note for Western Australia
Select ‘all dwellings’ and select ‘the income’
The profiles do not activate due to a lack of data in relation to number of bedrooms
Historic Rental Affordability Index Reports