National-Digital/qld-median-rents-by-postcode

Median weekly rents by postcode and dwelling type, Queensland

The median weekly rent of new tenancies in each Queensland postcode by dwelling type and number of bedrooms, each quarter since March 2012, from the Residential Tenancies Authority.

This is a copy of the 2026-10-15 version of this dataset on publicdata.au, where it has 101,185 rows and 5 fields. The same version is kept at https://publicdata.au/d/qld-median-rents-by-postcode/v/2026-10-15/ in 8 formats, with every earlier version and a query API.

Attribution

The data is published by Residential Tenancies Authority under CC BY 3.0 AU, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/au/. The licence requires this attribution:

© The State of Queensland Residential Tenancies Authority, Bond statistics data, Median rents by Postcode, sourced 19 October 2026, https://www.rta.qld.gov.au/sites/default/files/2023-04/rta-bond-statistics.xlsx, licensed under CC BY 3.0 AU.

To cite this version, including where it was serialised:

© The State of Queensland Residential Tenancies Authority, Bond statistics data, Median rents by Postcode, sourced 19 October 2026, https://www.rta.qld.gov.au/sites/default/files/2023-04/rta-bond-statistics.xlsx, licensed under CC BY 3.0 AU. Serialised and versioned by National Digital at publicdata.au, https://publicdata.au/d/qld-median-rents-by-postcode/v/2026-10-15/

This is an independent republication. The publisher has not endorsed this site.

Versions

publicdata.au keeps a new version each time the publisher changes the source file, and lists them all at https://publicdata.au/d/qld-median-rents-by-postcode/versions.json. This repository tags each version it holds as v<date>, so load_dataset("National-Digital/qld-median-rents-by-postcode", revision="v2026-10-15") always returns these rows.

Query it without downloading

The publicdata.au query API filters and totals the newest version of this dataset and needs no key:

https://publicdata.au/api/v1/datasets/qld-median-rents-by-postcode/rows?limit=10

Fields

Field	Type	Description
postcode	string	Postcode
dwelling	string	Dwelling type
quarter_month	string	The month that ends the quarter, Mar, Jun, Sep or Dec.
year	integer	Year
median_weekly_rent	number	Median weekly rent ($)

publicdata.json beside the data names the version, licence, attribution and the SHA-256 of the publisher's file it was built from.