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Before you put six figures into one suburb

The top suburb can make you $280,000 in 12 months. On an $800,000 budget — and you keep $243,000 of it after stamp duty and every other fee.

Same money. Same twelve months. One suburb turned $800,000 into $280,000. The middle of the pack managed $120,000. That gap is the whole decision — and it is made before you buy.

We rank all 3,493 Australian suburbs on your budget, highest growth first, in ninety seconds. Nobody else will show you that list.

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Two questions. See the profit gap in your budget:

$
Also in range scoring in the national top 15%
The top suburb made $—

One figure, off a single budget and one state. The full tool takes both ends of your budget and every state you would buy in, then names three real suburbs off your shortlist — free, no sign up.

If this is you

You cannot buy the best suburb
if you have never seen the list.

The growth figures are not hidden. They are published one suburb at a time, by people with something to sell, and nobody has ever put all 3,493 of them in front of you in one order.

So most investors choose from about six. The gap between the best of those six and the best of all 3,493 is the whole of what this costs you.

"I've been researching for months and I'm no closer."

Forty browser tabs, three spreadsheets and a list of suburbs that keeps changing. Every source covers a different set of places, over a different period, in a different format — so nothing is ever comparable and the list never converges.

"Median, average, yearly growth, quarterly growth — which one matters?"

A median is the middle sale, not the average. A twelve month figure and a quarterly one can point in opposite directions on the same suburb. Nobody explains which is which, and reading them the wrong way round is how people buy in after the run rather than before it.

"Everyone tells me somewhere different."

The agent says their patch. The developer says their estate. The forum says whatever went up last year. Your brother-in-law says the suburb he bought in, in a market that no longer exists. None of them is lying, and none of them is looking at the whole country.

"What if I pick the one that goes nowhere?"

You will own it for years, and selling costs tens of thousands before anything else. It is the one part of the decision that cannot be adjusted later — and it is the part almost nobody researches systematically.

So we built the list.

You tell us three things. We score every suburb in the country on published growth figures, weight them the way you asked, and hand you all of them in one order — strongest at the top — with a map beside it.

No appointment. No sales call. No email address. And no suburb we are paid to put at the top, because nobody pays us to.

The selling agent won't tell you They hold the listings in one area and are paid when one of them sells. Ranking their suburb against two thousand others is not something anybody is asking them to do, and it is not something they could do if they wanted to.
The listing portals won't tell you They will show you every house in a suburb you have already chosen. What they will not do is put that suburb's twelve month growth beside the other 3,493 and tell you where it lands.
A buyer's agent will — for $5,000 to $15,000 And for some people that is exactly the right call: they inspect the house, negotiate the price and know the street, which SuburbRank never will. Most people simply need the shortlist first, which is the cheap half of the job.

Three questions. Ninety seconds. Three real suburbs off the top of your list, free.

The money

Two investors. Same $800,000.
One of them made $280,000.

Both had $550,000 to $850,000 to spend, anywhere in Australia. 917 suburbs were inside that budget. He compared six of them. She ranked all 917 and bought the strongest.

Guessed

Bought in a suburb they had heard of

  • Shortlisted six suburbs, all suggested by somebody with a listing in one of them
  • Compared headline growth figures published over different periods
  • Never saw the quarterly figure, so could not tell a live market from a finished one
  • Landed on an ordinary market — the middle of the 917
Their median moved, over twelve months $120,000
Worked it out

Ranked every suburb in range, then chose

  • Scored every market in the budget on one measure, on the same release, on the same day
  • Read the twelve month figure and the quarterly one together, per suburb
  • Checked how much of the shortlist was really one region wearing several names
  • Bought in Harvey, WA — top of the ranking, scoring 97 out of 100
Their median moved, over twelve months $280,000
In just 12 months, on an $800,000 purchase, the top ranked suburb made $280,000 That is $5,385 a week, on a decision that took one afternoon.

Last year 3,423 of Australia's 3,493 suburbs went up and only 51 went down, across 8 states and territories. Finding one that grew was never the hard part. Finding the ones that grew hardest is.

And that is before the fees, so here is the whole sum. Stamp duty on an $800,000 purchase in that state is $32,316. Add conveyancing, building and pest, the lender and registration and the fees come to $36,416 all up. Take every cent of that off and you still keep $243,000 — 87% of the growth, in twelve months, on one decision.

Sell it and an agent takes a commission too, which still leaves $207,000 in your hand. Hold it and you keep the full $243,000. Either way it is money that came from choosing one suburb over another, and nothing else.

The same $800,000 in the middle of the country keeps $83,000. The gap is $160,000, after every fee either buyer pays. Same money, same year, same paperwork — the only thing that differed was which suburb it went into.

He did not do anything wrong. He was simply never shown the other 911 suburbs that cleared the bar, so he finished on $120,000 instead. The shortlist is worth getting right before you buy, because afterwards it is the one thing about the purchase you cannot change.

Both figures are what the published medians actually did, over twelve months that have already finished. Neither is a forecast, and nothing on this site is one.

The fees above are stamp duty at the investor rate for that state, conveyancing, building and pest, the lender and the disbursements. They do not include lender’s mortgage insurance, which you pay only if you borrow more than 80% — on a purchase this size that is another $12,000 to $20,000. Nothing here counts capital gains tax, land tax or the cost of holding the place.
The report that stops this being you costs $149.

Both investors are invented. The suburbs, the medians and the growth figures are not. They come out of the September 2026 update, the same one the tool ranks on, and the whole shortlist that produced these two numbers is published in full on the sample report — all nine suburbs, with the arithmetic beside them. Past growth does not predict future growth.

The alternatives

Three ways to choose a suburb.
Only one shows you all 3,493.

Research it yourself
What most people do
Buyer's agent
Per purchase
SuburbRank
This calculator
What it costs Nothing now,
six figures later
$5,000 – $15,000 $149
How long it takes Weeks of tabs and spreadsheets Weeks, plus the engagement Under 2 minutes
Every Australian suburb compared
Working shown Usually not
Inspects the house and negotiates

The clock

Three things that are true right now

Nothing on this site counts down to an offer, because there is not one. What moves is the data. Every median and every growth figure here is replaced every month — twelve times a year — and when the next release lands the whole ranking moves with it.

28 September 2026

Every figure here is replaced

The next update lands then, and each suburb's median and both growth figures move with it. That happens twelve times a year, not four: a shortlist you ran last month is already a month behind this one. Some of today's top twelve will still be there; some will not, and telling those two apart is most of what a second run is for. Every one refresh that lands inside your window is included at no extra cost. Why we do not guess what happens next.

+45%

The strongest twelve months in the country

Against a middle of the country at +14% over the same twelve months. That spread — from +45% at the top to +14% in the middle — is the whole reason a ranking is worth running, and it is why the difference between a strong pick and an ordinary one is measured in six figures rather than percentage points. How to read a spread that wide.

Zero

Forecasts, anywhere on this site

Every dollar figure here describes a period that has already finished, applied to your own purchase price. No projections, no ten year compounding, no "if this continues". The national median sits at $997,107 and what happens to it next is not something anybody can sell you — which is exactly why we show you what already happened, to all 3,493 of them.

The report

The Full Shortlist Report

The free result names three real suburbs from the middle of your top twelve and covers the six above them. This is the part that lifts the cover, opens the other hundred or the other thousand, draws every one of them on the map, and explains what each score is actually made of. Twelve sections and eight charts, on your own search, with every figure shown so you can check it or argue with it.

Free — and yours to keep

  • Three real suburbs, named in full — ranks 7, 8 and 9 of your shortlist, with real medians, real growth and real scores
  • Your top twelve as a grid, so you can see how far the covered ones go
  • How many suburbs are in range at all, and what they average
  • A live map with those three drawn on it, in 2D, 3D or satellite
  • What the top suburb made over the average one, in dollars
  • The full "show details" panel on all three

Full Access — $149 once

  • The six ranked above the three you were shown — the actual top of your list
  • Every suburb in range, ranked and scored — not twelve rows
  • The whole national heatmap, every matching boundary drawn
  • What each score is actually made of — the same 78 built two different ways is two different buys
  • Where each suburb sits inside its own region, which the national ranking cannot show
  • How concentrated your shortlist really is — one bet or six
  • The suburbs the figures say to look at twice, and exactly which figure says so
  • Unlimited shortlists while your pass runs, and every refresh inside it
  • The assistant, on your own shortlist, with no limit
  • The whole thing as a PDF you can print, plus a share link

See a real one, free — an invented search run all the way through on live data, with the open half exactly as a customer sees it, and the assistant live on it for two questions.

How it works

Every suburb in Australia, in three steps

If you know roughly what you can spend, you can use this. Simple mode asks three questions. Advanced is there if you want to set the purchase price the dollar figures are built on and rule out weak suburbs before anything is ranked.

01

Tell us the search

Both ends of your budget, which states you would genuinely buy in, and whether you are after long-run growth, a market that is moving now, or the lowest entry price that still performs. No name, no email, no sign up, and nothing about your finances beyond the budget figure — we do not ask and we could not store it if we did.

02

See three of them, free

Your top twelve as a grid, with ranks seven, eight and nine named in full — real medians, both growth figures, real scores — drawn on a live map you can pan and tilt. Enough to check the ranking against everything you already know. The six above them stay covered.

03

Uncover the six above them

$149 once lifts the cover off every row, opens every remaining suburb, the whole map, the breakdown behind each score and the ones to look at twice — plus unlimited runs while your pass is live, and every refresh inside it. PDF included, ready to send to a broker.

Built on published medians

A monthly update of median house sale prices by suburb — a new one every month, not every quarter — grouped into 88 regions, every state and territory. The release is printed on every report.

Never a forecast

Every figure describes a period that has already finished. No projections, no compounding a strong year out over a decade, and nothing a reader has to take on trust.

Not advice, and we say so

We are not licensed to tell you where to buy, and we never do. No suburb pays to appear here, and the ranking is arithmetic you can check line by line.

Refunded if it does not deliver

If Full Access does not do what these pages say it does, tell us what went wrong within 14 days and we refund you in full.

Included with the report

And if you do not follow something,
just ask it.

Every report comes with an assistant that has read your shortlist — your suburbs, your scores, your regions — and answers questions about it in plain English. Not a search box and not a help page. It knows what your report says because it has been handed it.

Ask Agent
Why is Harvey ahead of Gray? Gray grew the same amount.
Both are +35% over the year, so they are level on the growth signal. The quarter separates them: Harvey is +10% and Gray is +6%, which is worth about four points on the quarter on a balanced setting. Harvey's run is still going; Gray's has slowed. On a long-hold setting where the quarter matters less, the two of them come back together.
Is this shortlist all in one place?
Largely. Eight of the nine are in Western Australia, and five of those — Harvey, Collie, Waroona, Brunswick and Donnybrook — are all in the Bunbury region. That is 56% of the list reading one local market, so whatever moves Bunbury moves more than half of it at once.

A real exchange from the sample report. You get two questions on it free, before you pay for anything.

  • It has your shortlist, not a script "Why is this one ahead of that one?" "Is my list all in one region?" "Which of these should I be careful of?" It answers from your own suburbs and quotes the figures back at you.
  • Plain English, and it knows its limits It is told exactly what SuburbRank holds — medians and growth rates and nothing else — so when you ask about rental yield or flood zoning it says the report does not cover that, instead of reasoning its way to an answer.
  • Entirely optional. Use it or ignore it. It sits behind one button on your report and does nothing until you press it. Nothing in the report is held back from somebody who never opens it, and nothing is sent anywhere unless you ask it something.
  • It is never told who you are What it receives is the figures on your report — suburb names, medians, growth rates and scores. Not your name, not your email address, not your account, and never a tax file number or a bank detail, because we do not hold those. The name you can put on the report cover is optional and is not part of what it is given.
  • Nothing is kept The conversation stays in your browser tab and is gone when you close it. We record that a question was asked so we know the feature is used — never what it said. Section 5 of the privacy policy sets out exactly what does and does not travel.
  • It explains. It does not advise. It will tell you why a suburb ranks where it does, what its figures mean and where they came from. It will not tell you where to buy, and it is told never to call a suburb "the best" — the same line the report itself holds. Nothing here is personal financial or property investment advice.

Pricing

Less than one building inspection.
On the decision that comes before it.

One payment, nothing that renews, and we never keep your card. It opens every suburb in range and lets you run the ranking as often as you like — different budget, different states, different mix — for as long as your pass runs. Every report you generate stays open forever, whether or not the pass is still live.

The only thing you can lose here is the price of the pass — and you cannot lose that either. If it does not fit your situation, tell us what went wrong within 14 days and we refund you in full.

Prices in Australian dollars. Paid securely through PayPal — card or PayPal balance, no account needed. See a sample report before you decide.

Questions

The questions everyone asks first

There is no single answer, and anybody who gives you one without knowing your budget is selling something. What there IS: 3,493 Australian suburbs tracked, each with a published median and a published growth figure, and a ranking of all of them against a budget and a mix you set. Three real suburbs off that ranking are free.

Three signals, each scored by where the suburb ranks against every other suburb in the country rather than scaled between a minimum and a maximum: the change over the last twelve months, the change over the most recent quarter, and the median price itself as a measure of what it costs to get in. Those three are then weighted according to the strategy you pick, and the weights are printed on your report so the ranking can be argued with. The whole method, in detail.

No, and it never will. Every figure on this site describes a period that has already finished. There is no forecast in the free result, in the paid report, in the PDF or in the emails. Past growth does not predict future growth, and compounding one strong year out over a decade produces spectacular numbers and no information. Why we made that call.

Free: your top twelve as a grid, with ranks seven, eight and nine named in full — real medians, real growth figures, real scores — a live map of those three, and how many suburbs are in range in total. No sign up and no card. The six ranked above them are covered, and that is what $149 opens, along with every remaining suburb, the whole heatmap, the breakdown behind each score, the regional concentration, the suburbs to look at twice, unlimited runs for the length of your pass, the PDF, the share link and the assistant. Whatever you generate stays open after the pass ends.

Not at present. The update is houses only, and every page on this site says so rather than letting anybody assume otherwise. A unit ranking needs a second dataset, not a different view of this one.

No. SuburbRank is an information service. It ranks published market figures against a search you set and shows what they produce. It does not know your borrowing capacity, your tax position or your objectives, it never recommends a suburb, and it holds no data at all on rental yield, vacancy, zoning, hazard exposure or any individual property. Those decide more of the outcome than anything on our pages.

You will pick one suburb, once.

Then you own it for years. Everything else about the purchase can be changed later — the loan gets refinanced, the manager gets replaced, the kitchen gets done. The suburb cannot. Selling costs tens of thousands before anything else.

It is the one decision worth being systematic about, and it is the one almost nobody is systematic about. Ninety seconds now is the cheapest ninety seconds in the whole purchase, and it costs nothing.

No card. No sign up. Three real suburbs on the next screen.

3,493 suburbs. One ranking, strongest first. Three of them named in ninety seconds.

Three questions, about ninety seconds — then every suburb in the country in one order

Step 1 Just started

    Ranking 3,493 Australian suburbs from September 2026.

    1 What can you actually spend?

    We match this against each suburb's median house price — the middle sale, not the average — so a suburb is in range when an ordinary house there sits inside your band.

    $

    Stops the ranking filling up with suburbs far below what you are looking at. Drag it to zero if you would genuinely consider anything cheap that performs.

    $

    All in. Being out by twenty or thirty thousand changes very little; being out by two hundred thousand changes the whole shortlist.

    2 Anywhere in particular?

    Leave every state on and the ranking has the whole country to choose from. Narrow it only where there is a real reason — family nearby, an accountant you trust there, a property manager you already use.

    Which states and territories?

    Tap as many as you like. The most common way to end up with a mediocre shortlist is to rule out four states out of habit rather than out of a reason.

    3 What are you chasing?

    It decides how much weight the score puts on each of the three signals. There is no single correct answer — an investor holding for fifteen years and one holding for three are asking different questions — so the weights you pick are printed on your report and can be argued with rather than taken on trust.

    Which of these is closest?

    Three questions: what you can spend, where, and what you are chasing.

    4 The finer detail

    None of this changes which suburbs rank where. It changes the size of the dollar figures, and it lets you rule out suburbs you have already decided against.

    $

    Leave it at zero and we use the middle of the band you set, which is what most people end up spending. A suburb does not move up or down the ranking because you typed a bigger number here.

    % a year

    Anything under this is removed before the ranking runs. Leave it at zero unless you have a reason — a hard floor can quietly delete a whole state and the shortlist will not tell you.

    One quarter is a short window and small suburbs bounce around in it. This is a preference rather than a warning sign — the twelve month figure is shown for every suburb either way.

    Printed on the cover and nowhere else, so a report you send to a partner or a broker is recognisable when they open it.

    5 Check it over, then we rank the country

    This is everything you have told us. Anything wrong? Click the line to go back and change it.

    Saved automatically so you can reopen it from Saved shortlists. Change one thing later and save that as another.

    Free. No card, no sign up, and three real suburbs from your shortlist are on the next screen.

    How this ranking was built

    The six you have not seen

    The top suburb made $0 more

    Three real suburbs are named above. The six that scored higher than them are not.

    A buyer's agent, per purchase $5,000 – $15,000
    Buying in an average suburb instead
    Full Access, right now $149
    Open every suburb in range — pick how long you need it for

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    And you can ask it questions. Your shortlist comes with an assistant that has read it and explains any suburb, any score or any figure in plain English — if you want it. It is given the figures on your report, never your name or your email, and the conversation stays in your browser.

    See everything it includes · See a sample report

    The only thing you can lose here is the price of the pass — and you cannot lose that either. If it does not do what this page says it does, tell us what went wrong within 14 days and we refund you in full.
    Whichever one you pick, you cannot lose it. If it does not fit your situation, tell us what went wrong within 14 days and we refund you in full, no argument — whichever pass you bought. See a full sample report before you spend a cent.

    Before you decide

    Yes, it is included, and using it is entirely your choice. It sits behind one button on your report and does nothing until you press it — nothing in the report is held back from somebody who never opens it.

    When you do ask it something, what it receives is the figures on your report: amounts and categories. Not your name, not your email address, not your account, and never a Medicare number, tax file number or bank detail — we do not hold those in the first place. The name you can put on the report cover is optional and is not part of what it is given. The conversation stays in your browser tab and is gone when you close it, and we record that a question was asked without recording what it said.

    Section 5 of the privacy policy sets out exactly what does and does not travel, including who processes it.

    No. You pay once and the access is yours. There is no subscription and nothing renews. PayPal handles the payment, so we never even see your card number.

    No. The monthly refresh is included, not an upsell and not a separate plan. When the next update lands on 28 September 2026 you re-run the same search and the ranking rebuilds on the new figures, at no extra cost, for as long as the service exists. That is deliberate: a suburb that holds its place through a refresh is telling you something a single quarter cannot.

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    This map is a demonstration, and the ranking on it has been shuffled The suburbs are real Australian places and the figures are real published figures — but they have been paired at random. The suburb sitting at number one is not the top of the country, and the growth printed beside a suburb is not that suburb's growth. Nothing here is a shortlist and none of it can be acted on. What is real is the tool: the heatmap, the ranking, the filters and the boundaries are exactly what Full Access runs, on the same September 2026 update. Unlock it and this same page redraws on the true ranking for your own budget.

    The ranking, live

    Change what the list is ranked by and the map recolours with it. Click any card and the map flies to that suburb.

    You have been using the real tool.

    Everything above is what Full Access runs — the same map, the same ranking, the same filters, on the same 3,493 suburbs. The only difference is that the pairing has been shuffled, so what you cannot see is which suburb is which.

    From $99, one payment, it reveals real figures and opens the full report.

    One payment, three lengths to choose from. Nothing renews.

    First, the three things nobody explains

    1
    A median is the middle sale, not the average

    Half the houses in that suburb sold for more and half for less. It is used instead of the average because one enormous sale drags an average upwards and tells you nothing about what an ordinary house there costs. There will always be houses below it.

    2
    The year and the quarter are two different signals

    A suburb can be up strongly over twelve months and already falling over the last three. The run happened; buying now is buying after it. A single headline growth figure hides exactly that, which is why every card below carries both.

    3
    The comparison is against the MIDDLE, not the worst

    Every gap on this page is the top ranked suburb in that budget against the middle of the same budget — the ordinary pick, which is what people actually end up with. Measuring against the weakest suburb in range would produce a bigger number and describe a mistake nobody makes.

    Everything below is those three facts in real dollars, for eight different investors. Worked out on the September 2026 update, on figures that have already happened. Nothing on this page is a forecast.

    None of these is you.

    Your shortlist depends on three things none of these eight share with you: what you can actually spend, which states you would genuinely buy in, and whether you are after long-run growth, a market that is moving right now, or the lowest entry price you can find that still performs. Change any one of them and the ranking changes.

    This is somebody else's search, not yours The search below is invented — $550,000 to $850,000, anywhere in Australia, on a balanced mix, with the dollar figures built on an $800,000 purchase. Change the budget by a hundred thousand, or tick two states instead of nine, and the ranking comes out completely different.

    Nothing on this page is an answer for your situation, and none of it should be relied on for a decision about you.
    The suburbs and every figure beside them are real: they come out of the same September 2026 update the live tool ranks, drawn by the same engine. That is what makes this a preview rather than a mock-up. The suburb names are blurred on this page, and only on this page. Every score, median and growth figure is exactly what the engine produced — this is the full paid layout, every section and every panel, on a real shortlist. What is held back is which nine suburbs they are, because this page is public and naming them would hand the answer to that budget to everybody who reads it. In your own report every name is in the clear.
    01

    Nine suburbs, one at a time

    The strongest nine of 917 Australian suburbs that matched this search, ranked on the SuburbRank Score. Open Show Details on any of them for what its three figures actually say, where it sits against the rest of the country, and what checking it out involves.

    02

    Every suburb in range, on the map

    All 917 drawn as boundaries on a national heatmap, recoloured by whatever you rank on, in 2D, 3D and satellite. On this page the boundaries have been shuffled across the rows — the shapes are real Australian suburbs, but the one drawn for a row is not that row's suburb. In your own report every shape is the right one.

    02

    The short version

    Three numbers, and they are the whole argument. Everything else in this report explains where they came from.

    Top of the ranking Name shown in your own report WA · scores 97 out of 100
    Your top suburb made $280,000 in just 12 months, on an $800,000 purchase
    In range on this search 917 suburbs between $550K and $850K

    Read that middle figure carefully. It is what the top ranked suburb's median actually moved over a twelve month period that has already finished, applied to an $800,000 purchase. The middle of the same 917 made $120,000. Neither is a forecast, and there is no forecast anywhere in this report.

    03

    The nine, drawn to scale

    The same scores as the rows above. The gap between the first bar and the last is how much work the ranking is actually doing on this search.

    SuburbRank Score, out of 100, on a balanced 50/30/20 mix.
    04

    The year against the quarter

    The twelve month figure across, the last quarter up, with the national middle drawn on both. Top right grew and is still moving; bottom right grew and has already turned. They are not the same purchase, and a single growth percentage cannot tell them apart — which is the chart most people have never seen.

    Each point is one suburb from the shortlist above.
    05

    What the last twelve months moved $800,000 by

    The same growth figures in dollars rather than percentages, on this search's purchase price. A percentage is an argument; this is the size of it.

    Historic movement in each suburb's median, applied to $800,000. Not a projection.

    Seven more sections, the whole map, and 712 more suburbs

    • 06Every suburb in range, on the map
    • 07Where each score comes from
    • 08Does paying more buy better growth?
    • 09How concentrated your shortlist really is
    • 10What your budget reaches, nationally
    • 11The ones to look at twice
    • 12Your top twelve, one at a time

    Everything above is real arithmetic on an invented search. Run yours and this half opens on your own budget, your own states and your own mix.

    And you can ask it questions. Every report comes with an assistant that has read your shortlist and explains any suburb, any score or any figure in plain English. Using it is entirely your choice, it does nothing until you press the button, and it is given the figures on your report and never your name, your email or your account.

    That is somebody else's search. Yours takes about ninety seconds and costs nothing.

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    It may have been switched off by the person who sent it, or the address may have been copied incompletely. Ask them for a fresh link.

    We could not find that link

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    Reading about suburbs is useful. Seeing which ones your budget actually reaches is better.

    Foundations

    Yearly growth against quarterly growth: reading both figures together

    Two suburbs are both up 15% over the year. One is still climbing. The other stopped four months ago and is going backwards. They look identical on every listing site in the country, and buying the wrong one is how investors end up paying the top of a run that has already finished.

    The twelve month figure tells you what happened. The quarterly figure tells you whether it is still happening. You need both, and here is how to read them together.

    Current to September 2026 7 min read Australia
    Two line charts side by side showing the same twelve month rise with opposite recent quarters.

    The four quadrants

    Plot the twelve month figure across and the quarterly figure up, and every suburb lands in one of four boxes. The paid report draws exactly this chart with the national middle marked on both axes, because it is the one picture that separates purchases most people treat as identical.

    YearQuarterWhat it usually means
    StrongStrongThe market is running and has not stopped. The most expensive place to buy, and often the most competitive.
    StrongWeak or negativeThe run happened. You would be buying after it, at a price that reflects it.
    WeakStrongSomething changed recently. Either an early turn, or one unusual quarter in a small market.
    WeakWeakNothing is happening. It is on the shortlist because it is cheap, not because it is performing.

    Why the second box catches so many people

    Almost every "hot suburb" list published in Australia ranks on twelve month growth alone. That is not dishonest — it is the strongest single signal there is — but it puts the suburbs that have just finished a run at the very top, because a run that finished last month still shows up in full over twelve months.

    The reader who acts on that list buys at the end of the move rather than the start of it. Nothing about the figure was wrong; it simply answered a different question from the one being asked. Adding the quarterly figure costs nothing and closes that gap entirely.

    Why the third box is the hardest to read

    A quiet year followed by a strong quarter is what an early turn looks like. It is also what noise looks like. In a suburb where twelve houses sell a quarter, one unusual street can move the median several per cent on its own, and it will move back next quarter.

    There is no way to tell those two apart from the figures alone, and any tool claiming to is guessing. What you can do is check whether the region around the suburb is doing the same thing — a single suburb moving against everything near it is usually a small sample, and a whole region moving together usually is not. The paid report gives you the regional median growth beside each suburb's own for exactly that reason.

    How much weight to put on each

    There is no universally correct answer, which is why SuburbRank asks rather than deciding for you:

    Ranked forYearQuarterEntry price
    Balanced50%30%20%
    Long-run growth70%20%10%
    Right now25%60%15%
    Entry price30%15%55%

    An investor holding for fifteen years is right to weight the year heavily: one soft quarter in a long hold is noise. An investor planning to renovate and sell inside three years is right to care far more about the quarter. Both settings are printed on the report, which is what lets somebody else argue with your ranking instead of taking it on trust.

    One thing neither figure does is predict. Both describe periods that have already finished, and SuburbRank does not forecast at all. What reading them together buys you is not a prediction — it is knowing which part of a move you are looking at.

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    Almost everybody buying an investment property in Australia chooses between about six suburbs. Not because six is the right number — it is how many you can hold in your head after a fortnight of open homes, agent emails and forum threads, and because everybody you speak to along the way is selling one of them. The agent has stock in their patch. The developer has stock in theirs. The buyer's agent works a corridor they know. All of them are paid when the sale happens, not on what the place does over the next ten years, and none of them has any reason to mention the other 3,493 suburbs in the country.

    The figures that would settle it are not secret. Every month, median sale prices are published suburb by suburb, and the change over the quarter and over the year comes straight out of them. SuburbRank runs on a fresh set of those medians every month, grouped into the regions that make "Ipswich" or "Perth - North East" mean something: 3,493 Australian suburbs tracked across 88 regions and every state and territory. The release currently on the site is September 2026, and it is printed on every report we produce. What almost nobody ever does is put all of them in one table, in one order, filtered to what a particular person can actually afford.

    SuburbRank does that one thing. It scores every suburb in the country out of 100 on three published figures — twelve month growth, how fast it moved last quarter, and the median price itself — weights them the way you say you want them weighted, and shows you the whole ranking with every number that produced it on the page beside it. Three real suburbs out of your top twelve are free — enough to check the ranking against what you already know, and not enough to act on. Nothing on this site is a forecast: every figure describes a period that has already finished, which is the only kind of figure anybody can check.

    We do not tell you where to buy. We are not licensed to, and in any case the arithmetic is the part people are missing rather than the opinion. SuburbRank holds median prices and growth rates and nothing else — no rental yields, no vacancy rates, no zoning, no flood or bushfire exposure, no data about any individual property, and nothing at all about your borrowing capacity or your tax position. Those decide more of the outcome than anything on our pages, and they are what a buyer's agent is actually for — which is a much easier job to hand over once you have narrowed two and a half thousand suburbs down to six on purpose rather than by accident.

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    It applies to suburbrank.com.au and to every email we send you. It does not apply to any third party site we link to.

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    Information you give us

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    4. Where the calculation happens

    In your browser, on your device. The figures you type into the calculator are processed locally to produce your result. They are transmitted to us only if you choose to save a scenario to your account. If you never save one, we never receive them.

    Two exceptions, and both are things you have to choose to do:

    • If you ask us to email your free estimate, the headline figure that estimate produced is stored with your email address so the estimate we send you is the one you saw.
    • If you use the optional report assistant, the figures in the report you have open are sent to us and on to the service that answers it. That is the only part of this site that sends anything to a third party, and section 5 sets out exactly what does and does not travel.

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    A paid report comes with an optional assistant you can ask questions about your own figures. It is the one part of this site that sends anything to a third party, so it is set out here in full.

    It is entirely your choice, and it does nothing until you use it. Nothing is sent anywhere unless you open the assistant and ask a question. If you never open it, this section does not apply to you at all, and the rest of the report works exactly the same.

    What is sent when you do ask

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    • Your Medicare number, tax file number, a tax file number, a bank account number, a credit file, a driver licence or any other government identifier, bank account or card details — we never hold these in the first place. See section 2.

    What travels is a set of amounts and categories. On its own it does not identify anybody, and we do not send anything alongside it that would.

    Who processes it

    The request is answered by Google's Gemini API, which processes it outside Australia — see sections 10 and 11. We do not train any model on your figures and we have no arrangement permitting anyone to do so; what Google does with data sent to its API is governed by its own terms, which we do not control.

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    We use Google Analytics and Google Ads to measure how people find and use the site and whether our advertising is worth running. Where these are enabled, Google receives your IP address, device and browser information, the pages you viewed, and — when you complete a purchase — the order reference and the amount paid. Google may set its own cookies and may combine this with data it holds from other sources. Google's handling of that data is governed by its own privacy policy, not ours.

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    If a data breach occurs that is likely to result in serious harm, we will notify you and the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner as required by the Notifiable Data Breaches scheme.

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    Write to support@suburbrank.com.au. We will:

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    If you are not satisfied with our response, you may complain to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner: oaic.gov.au, 1300 363 992, or GPO Box 5288, Sydney NSW 2001.

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    Which suburb, out of 3,493?