Michelle Marquardt, ABS head of prices statistics, said: ‘The CPI rose 1.3 per cent in the September 2025 quarter, which is the highest quarterly rise since March 2023. The largest contributor to this ...

The ABS has previously released admin-based income estimates in the Census of Population and Housing 2021. This paper presents updated estimation methods that use newer admin data sources. As such, ...

The Living Cost Indexes (LCIs) recorded rises between 0.6% and 1.5% in the September 2025 quarter. Housing and Recreation and culture were the main positive contributors across most LCIs. In the ...

Household spending rose 0.2 per cent in September, according to seasonally adjusted figures released today by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). This follows a flat result in August and a 0.4 ...

In 2024-25: 156,000 people aged 45 years and over retired, with an average age of 63.8 years. There were a total of 4.5 million people aged 45 years and over who were retired (retirees). The average ...

The underemployment rate rose by 0.2 percentage points to 5.9 per cent in September. This is 0.3 percentage points lower than September 2024, and 2.8 percentage points lower than March 2020. The ...

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The ABS has undertaken a review of the Australian Statistical Geography Standard (ASGS). The outcomes of this review are available from Outcomes from the review of the Australian Statistical Geography ...

These assumptions are consistent with figures released in National, state and territory population. For related statistics visit Population statistics.