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ACT · 116 suburbs · capital: CAN

ACT

Property data for ACT. Rent signals, largest suburbs, lower-price entries, the macro coverage picture, and a desk for ranking, comparing, and modelling without leaving the state.

ACT sits inside the Australian section of QuickProperty, but its data does not behave uniformly. Price and rent coverage are stronger in metro markets, thinner in regional ones, and the state's median is only ever as honest as that coverage. This bulletin opens with the suburbs that anchor most decisions — the largest by population and the most affordable with real scale — before handing off to the full state browse view below.

Treat the medians as starting reads. Treat the suburb pages as where the work actually happens. Treat compare and the calculator as the stages where the shortlist gets stress-tested before listings.

State of the bulletin

Five readings from ACT.

Suburbs indexed
116
Browsable from this bulletin.
Population indexed
453K
Across ACT suburbs.
Median house
$1.02M
98 suburbs with price data.
D6 vs AU
Median rent /wk
$447
112 suburbs with rent data.
D9 vs AU
Median income
$1,191
Personal income, ABS Census base.
D10 vs AU
National positioning

Where ACT sits among the states.

Median houseACT · 2nd of 8
SA$1.10M
ACT$1.02M
NSW$975K
QLD$866K
WA$795K
VIC$725K
TAS$605K
NT$590K
Median rentACT · 1st of 8
ACT$447/wk
NSW$325/wk
QLD$280/wk
WA$271/wk
VIC$260/wk
SA$250/wk
TAS$250/wk
NT$202/wk
Gross yieldACT · 5th of 8
NT3.0%
TAS2.6%
VIC2.5%
QLD2.3%
ACT2.3%
WA2.1%
NSW1.9%
SA1.6%

Median house price, median weekly rent, and median gross yield across QuickProperty's eight state datasets. Coverage differs by state, so treat these as screening positions, not valuations.

Investor profile

Investor profile · ACT

Owner-occupied 69%Rented 31%
Investor activityATO
Negatively geared56.93405571503659%
28,163 of 49,466 landlords
Avg rental loss$10,733/yr
Landlords (rental income)49,466
Reported capital gains34,442
The read

Negatively-geared growth belt

67% of homes here are owner-occupied and 31% rented, with 57% of landlords negatively geared.

What to check

57% of local landlords are negatively geared — investors here are betting on capital growth over rental income.

ABS Census 2021 tenure aggregated across the state's suburbs and ATO postcode rental statistics summed to state level. No state-level new-lending split is published; see the national page for lending flows.

CAN price trend

Median house · Canberra
$1.07M
+9.9% YoY · +0.1% QoQ
Median unit · Canberra
$625K
+4.2% YoY · +0.2% QoQ
Population projection

ACT projected to grow 16.0% by 2032.

ABS SA2-level projections rolled up to ACT, sum of 125 SA2 areas (male + female across all age brackets, base year 2022).

Base · 2022
456,844

Projected total population, ACT

+5y · 2027
494,017

+8.1% vs base

+10y · 2032
530,033

+16.0% vs base

Projected trajectory
2022–2032
Solar adoption

ACT postcodes leading on rooftop solar.

Top postcodes ranked by Clean Energy Regulator small-scale installs per 1,000 residents. ACT cumulative: 68,417 installs across 28 postcodes, 0.54GW capacity, 4,997 added in the last 12 months.

See all ACT solar rankings → · Battery adoption →

Council areas

Browse ACT by LGA.

1 local government areas in ACT. Open an LGA for area-level rent, prices, and suburb roll-up.

Suburb directory

Every ACT suburb, A to Z.

116 ACT suburbs indexed. Jump to a letter, then open a suburb for prices, rent, schools, demographics, and investment signals.

A 4 suburbs
B 8 suburbs
C 15 suburbs
D 6 suburbs
E 1 suburb
F 10 suburbs
G 8 suburbs
H 9 suburbs
I 2 suburbs
J 1 suburb
K 3 suburbs
L 4 suburbs
M 9 suburbs
N 3 suburbs
O 4 suburbs
P 5 suburbs
R 4 suburbs
S 5 suburbs
T 6 suburbs
U 1 suburb
W 7 suburbs
Y 1 suburb
FAQ

Four questions about ACT.

  1. How many ACT suburbs does QuickProperty cover?

    QuickProperty indexes 116 ACT suburb pages, with 98 suburbs carrying house price coverage and 112 suburbs carrying rent coverage in the current processed dataset.

  2. What is the median house price in ACT?

    Across ACT suburbs with available house price data, the median house price shown on this hub is $1.02M. Treat it as a suburb-screening benchmark, not a property valuation.

  3. What is the median weekly rent in ACT?

    Across ACT suburbs with available rent data, the median weekly rent shown on this hub is $447/wk. Individual suburb pages may differ materially from the state-level benchmark.

  4. What should I do after browsing the ACT hub?

    Open a large suburb for context, use rankings if the state still feels too broad, or move two to three candidates into compare once you have a realistic shortlist.