Every quarter, the Australian Bureau of Statistics releases data that shapes your rent, your wages, and your cost of living. Most Australians never see it.
Numberra changes that. We take official data from the ABS, the RBA, and other Australian government sources — and turn it into clear charts and plain-English insights that anyone can understand. No economics degree. No jargon. No paywall. Just the numbers that actually matter to your household.
The name says it all — Numberra is numbers from Canberra, decoded for the rest of us.
Numberra provides transparent, official data on Consumer Price Index (CPI), wages, rents, and interest rates. Built to help Australians understand real economic pressures using public data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) and Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA).
All data is sourced from official releases under CC BY 4.0 (ABS) or public domain (RBA). Updated automatically from official sources on a regular schedule.
This is an independent project. Commercial use of the data must follow the source licences.
• CPI — ABS cat. 6401.0 (quarterly). CC BY 4.0.
• WPI — ABS cat. 6345.0 (quarterly). CC BY 4.0.
• Lending Indicators — ABS cat. 5601.0 (monthly). CC BY 4.0.
• Residential Property Price Index — ABS cat. 6416.0 (quarterly). CC BY 4.0.
• Building Approvals — ABS cat. 8731.0 (monthly). CC BY 4.0.
• Retail Trade — ABS cat. 8501.0 (monthly). CC BY 4.0.
• Counts of Australian Businesses — ABS cat. 8165.0 (annual). CC BY 4.0.
• Business Indicators — ABS cat. 5676.0 (quarterly). CC BY 4.0.
• Labour Force — ABS cat. 6202.0 (monthly). CC BY 4.0.
• GDP / National Accounts — ABS cat. 5206.0 (quarterly). CC BY 4.0.
• Average Weekly Earnings — ABS cat. 6302.0 (bi-annual). CC BY 4.0.
• Job Vacancies — ABS cat. 6354.0 (quarterly). CC BY 4.0.
• Consumer Sentiment — Westpac–Melbourne Institute (monthly). Included for context.
• Food CPI subcategories — ABS 6401.0 detailed classes (monthly). CC BY 4.0.
• RBA Cash Rate — RBA statistical tables (public domain).
• Housing lending rates — RBA table F6 (monthly). Public domain.
• Household finance — RBA tables E1–E2, E13 (quarterly). Public domain.
• Exchange Rates — RBA statistical tables (monthly). Public domain.
• Commodity Prices — RBA statistical tables (monthly). Public domain.
• ASIC Company Register — ASIC (monthly). CC BY 3.0 AU.
• NSW Development Applications (DA Watcher) — NSW Planning Portal Application Tracker API. CC BY. Data includes development applications, complying development certificates, and modifications. Updated daily. Visit DA Watcher →
• SuburbScore — Composite livability index from ABS, RBA, NSW Air Quality API, TfNSW GTFS, NSW DA API, and BOM climate data. Visit SuburbScore →
• Data for 8 capital cities (proxies for states/territories per ABS methodology).