Latest CPI by capital city
/v1/economics/cpi/latest1¢ per callThe latest CPI reading for Australia and each capital city — index, and period and annual % change.
Price: 1¢ per call.
Authorization
Request
The only values you send. Fields under Responses below are what comes back — you never pass those.
Query parameters
itemstringoptionalOne of: all-groups, trimmed-mean, weighted-median, excluding-housing, excluding-volatile-items, tradables, non-tradables, food, alcohol-tobacco, clothing-footwear, housing, furnishings-household, health, transport, communication, recreation-culture, education, insurance-financial, rents, new-dwellings, property-rates, dwelling-maintenance, utilities, electricity, insurance.
frequencystringoptionalquarterly or monthly.
Responses
Successful Response
itemstringalways returnedfrequencystringalways returnedregionsarray of CpiLatestRegionalways returnedsourceobjectalways returnedWhere the numbers come from and how to credit them. Both publishers license this data CC BY 4.0: if you show or pass it on, show `attribution` with it.
/v1/economics/cpi/latestcurl --request GET \
--url 'https://api.microburbs.com.au/v1/economics/cpi/latest' \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer test'{
"data": {
"source": {
"attribution": "Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Consumer Price Index, Australia.",
"dataset": "Consumer Price Index, Australia",
"licence": "CC BY 4.0",
"licence_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
"publisher": "Australian Bureau of Statistics",
"reference": "ABS:CPI(2.0.0)/1.10001.10.50.Q",
"retrieved": "2026-09-24T10:48Z",
"url": "https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/economy/price-indexes-and-inflation/consumer-price-index-australia"
}
}
}