Ipswich, QLD

Ipswich has 56 suburbs tracked by NestLedger, with an average weekly rent of $575. A single person needs to earn at least $97,067/yr (median) to keep rent below 30% of income.

28 suburbs are in rental stress, where median rent exceeds 30% of median household income.

Across the 56 priced suburbs NestLedger tracks in Ipswich, weekly medians run from $270 in Ipswich up to $900 in Brookwater, a 3.3× spread. Where you land inside that range matters more to a budget than the citywide average does.

28 of the tracked suburbs sit in rental stress, where the median rent exceeds 30% of the local median household income. Tracked rents rose an average 10.5% over the past year, so figures date quickly.

For the long-form version of how these numbers work, see the NestLedger guides.