Rent prices in Australia
What rooms, shared rooms and whole places cost in each city, from live listings on Flathive. Pick a city to see every suburb and postcode. Updated 30 October 2026.
Median rent by city
Weekly rent by city
| City | Rooms |
|---|---|
| Melbourne | $300$250–$400 |
| Sydney | $375$246–$538 |
| Perth | $350$250–$600 |
| Kelvin Grove | $300$300–$300 |
Median weekly rent, with the typical range below it (the middle 80% of rents). Shared rooms are per person. “—” means fewer than 5 listings of that type.
Common questions
- Which city in Australia has the cheapest rooms?
- Of the cities with enough listings on Flathive, Melbourne has the lowest median room rent ($300 a week) and Sydney the highest ($375 a week).
- How are these rent prices worked out?
- Every day we take the rent of each published listing on Flathive: each room's rent for rooms, the whole rent for whole places. We show the median (the middle rent) and the typical range (the middle 80% of rents). A city or postcode is only shown once it has at least 5 rents of that type.