How we use this data

Rental figures describe the weekly rents recorded for new rental bonds lodged with NSW Fair Trading in the stated year or reporting period. Values are in Australian dollars per week. They cover the whole postcode, which may include several suburbs, rather than a particular street or property. Suburbs sharing a postcode may therefore show the same rental figures.

A median is the middle weekly rent after the values are ordered from lowest to highest; with an even number of values, it is the average of the two middle values. Annual charts show the available yearly medians. Dwelling-type and bedroom charts show medians for the corresponding groups of bond lodgements. Where shown, a sample count is the number of bond lodgements used for that median. These figures describe new bond lodgements, rather than all existing tenancies or advertised asking rents.

Year-on-year change expresses the difference from the comparison period as a percentage of the previous value. For rental figures, this compares the median weekly rent with the previous year. For recorded incidents, it compares the current reporting window with the preceding equivalent window; check the period shown on the suburb profile.

Positive values mean an increase and negative values mean a decrease. A change in the rental median can also reflect a different mix of homes in the lodgement data; it does not measure the rent increase for the same property. A percentage change from zero is undefined. Missing comparison values must not be read as zero change.

Year-on-year change (%) = ((current value − previous value) ÷ previous value) × 100

Illustrative examples: a median weekly rent moving from $600 to $660 gives ((660 − 600) ÷ 600) × 100 = 10%. A recorded-incident count moving from 200 to 180 gives ((180 − 200) ÷ 200) × 100 = −10%. These examples do not describe a particular suburb.

The incident snapshot shows the recorded total for the 12-month window labelled on the suburb profile. Broad-group charts compare current and previous counts, and category charts show the available incident counts by offence category. Where a category share is shown, it is the category count divided by the reported total, multiplied by 100. Check the reporting window when comparing figures: crime and rental data can cover different periods.

An incident is a police-recorded event, not a conviction or a count of unique offenders. These totals are not adjusted for population and are not crime rates or a ranking of safety. Visitor activity, transport hubs, reporting behaviour and policing can affect the counts. Suppressed category values are omitted from the displayed breakdown, so the categories shown need not add up to the headline total.

The homepage summary uses the suburbs in the visible featured collections, counting each suburb once even if it appears in several collections. Suburbs and states are counts within that featured set. The weekly rent range is the lowest and highest available postcode median in that set, rather than a range of individual property rents. The review total adds the available BeforeYouRent review counts for those suburbs.

The rent comparison chart sorts the available medians; when there are more than 12 suburbs it shows the six lowest and six highest. The year-on-year chart shows up to 10 suburbs, selecting up to five increases and five decreases before filling remaining places with the largest absolute changes. The review coverage chart uses suburbs with both reviews and reviewed properties and shows up to eight. These are selected comparisons, not totals or rankings covering every suburb in NSW.

We show the reporting periods supplied with the data. Different sources have different publication schedules, and an available figure may relate to an earlier period. Missing or suppressed observations are not estimates of zero. Values without usable data are omitted, and charts do not create observations for missing years.

Currency values are displayed in whole Australian dollars and percentage changes are rounded for readability. Displayed rounded values may not reproduce a percentage calculated from the underlying values exactly. BeforeYouRent review counts and ratings reflect submitted reviews and are separate from government statistics. Check the original publications and consider the limitations before relying on a comparison.

Rental figures are derived from NSW Fair Trading rental bond lodgement data, © State of New South Wales, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Postcode-level medians and year-on-year changes were calculated by BeforeYouRent.

Crime figures are sourced from the NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research (BOCSAR), © State of New South Wales (Department of Communities and Justice). Its current copyright notice specifies CC BY 4.0 unless otherwise stated. Year-on-year changes were calculated by BeforeYouRent. Figures are police-recorded incidents, not convictions, and are not adjusted for population.

The linked publisher notices and licences explain the terms for the original data. BOCSAR’s current website notice uses CC BY 4.0 unless otherwise stated; a different licence supplied with a particular dataset takes precedence. Source names, reporting periods and any supplied dataset licence are also shown at the bottom of suburb profiles.

• For current information go to www.nsw.gov.au.
• NSW Fair Trading rental bond data
• NSW Government copyright and attribution notice
• Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence (CC BY 4.0)
• BOCSAR criminal incident data
• BOCSAR / Department of Communities and Justice copyright and disclaimer

This data is general information only. Neither NSW Fair Trading nor BOCSAR endorses BeforeYouRent or warrants the accuracy of these figures.