Rent affordability calculator Australia

Enter your salary and optionally a suburb. See your max affordable rent live, with a clear verdict against the 30% benchmark.

Your details

All amounts in AUD

Household type
Suburb (optional)
Max affordable rent
$490/wk
Monthly$2,125
Annual$25,500

Suburbs you can afford

Comfortable rent at $85,000/yr, across 5,093 suburbs

450
comfortably affordable suburbs (9% of those we track)

"Comfortable" means the suburb's median rent sits within 80% of the 30% rental-stress threshold for your income. Example links open the full breakdown at the nearest analysed salary.

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How this is calculated

  • Max affordable weekly rent = gross income × 30% ÷ 52 weeks.
  • The 30% benchmark is the standard Australian rental-stress threshold used by housing researchers and policymakers.
  • Suburb rent is the median weekly rent across all property types from state rental bond authority data.
  • Verdict: comfortable when suburb median ≤ 80% of your max; stretched at 80–100%; rental stress above 100%.

Indicative only. This is not financial advice. Rent data is derived from state rental bond authority records and may not reflect current market conditions.

Full budget picture

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