Compare Canberra rental areas with data

Australian Bureau of Statistics, with reference period 2024 to 2025, reports people added at 700 people for Taylor; people added at 580 people for Phillip; people per square kilometre at 5,300 people per square kilometre for Kingston.

Australian Bureau of Statistics, with reference period 2021 Census, reports median weekly rent at $450 for Canberra and Queanbeyan Significant Urban Area; median weekly household income at $2,350 for Canberra and Queanbeyan Significant Urban Area; separate house share at 63% for Canberra and Queanbeyan Significant Urban Area; flat or apartment share at 19.3% for Canberra and Queanbeyan Significant Urban Area.

When using the evidence to compare selected Canberra areas on consistent geography, period and housing measures without manufacturing a ranking, the useful measures are people added (Taylor), people added (Phillip), people per square kilometre (Kingston), median weekly rent (Canberra and Queanbeyan Significant Urban Area), median weekly household income (Canberra and Queanbeyan Significant Urban Area). Each remains limited to the geography and reference period printed beside it.

For Canberra, write one decision question, choose a consistent geography and add only comparable measures. Place transport, dwelling type and advertised rent beside the public data. Remove any row that cannot be explained or compared on the same basis. Use people added (Taylor), people added (Phillip), people per square kilometre (Kingston), median weekly rent (Canberra and Queanbeyan Significant Urban Area), median weekly household income (Canberra and Queanbeyan Significant Urban Area) for the dated context and test Taylor, Phillip, Kingston only against real, current properties.

Keep ACT and New South Wales listings in separate comparison rows while using the combined urban profile only as orientation. While deciding to compare selected Canberra areas on consistent geography, period and housing measures without manufacturing a ranking, any property kept on the shortlist still needs its own advertised price, dwelling type, available date and request deadline.

A Canberra comparison selects Taylor and Phillip because they expose a real local contrast. Each row uses the same geography and period, adds current listing evidence, and leaves unsupported cells blank.

When using the evidence to compare selected Canberra areas on consistent geography, period and housing measures without manufacturing a ranking, the example keeps three layers separate: published Canberra context, facts from the current listing and the renter's own household choice. None substitutes for another.

Canberra and Queanbeyan keeps the same displayed Census area code in the two source periods used here. Even so, the figures remain historical snapshots and cannot be presented as a live rent quote, population counter or vacancy measure. When using this evidence to compare selected Canberra areas on consistent geography, period and housing measures without manufacturing a ranking, only the stated source period can be treated as the evidence date.

The failure to avoid is ranking areas that were measured with different periods or geographic definitions; the local version of that risk is treating the combined urban area as one legal jurisdiction or assuming a Canberra-wide trend is a Queanbeyan suburb measure. No figure here is a suburb ranking, vacancy estimate or application-competition score.

Check whether each statement refers to Canberra and Queanbeyan Significant Urban Area, Taylor, Phillip, Kingston or the individual property before using it. The conclusion stays narrow: compare selected Canberra areas on consistent geography, period and housing measures without manufacturing a ranking.

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