Median weekly rent per microburb
/v1/suburbs/{suburb_name}/market/rent-map20¢ per callMedian advertised weekly house rent for every microburb (mesh block) in
the suburb, with its modal street name, plus the dearest and cheapest
pockets. Values only — the matching polygons come from
/shapes/mesh-blocks.
Exact suburb identifier required. Exact ABS Suburb and Locality (SAL) name, e.g. Burwood (NSW) — many suburbs carry a state suffix. If starting from free text or an unverified bare name, first call GET /v1/geocode/suburb?q=<text>, then use the exact data[].area_name it returns. Suburb data endpoints do not guess a state or typo-correct names.
Price: 20¢ per call.
Authorization
Request
The only values you send. Fields under Responses below are what comes back — you never pass those.
Path parameters
suburb_namestringrequiredExact ABS Suburb and Locality (SAL) name, e.g. `Burwood (NSW)` — many suburbs carry a state suffix. If starting from free text or an unverified bare name, first call `GET /v1/geocode/suburb?q=<text>`, then use the exact `data[].area_name` it returns. Suburb data endpoints do not guess a state or typo-correct names.
Query parameters
Responses
Successful Response
suburbstringalways returnedCanonical SAL name.
metricstringalways returnedAlways 'median_weekly_rent_house'.
unitstringalways returnedAlways 'AUD_per_week'.
as_ofstringmay be nullDate of the rent surface (YYYY-MM-DD).
definitionstringalways returnedHow the figure is derived.
n_microburbsintegeralways returnedMicroburbs with a rent.
microburbsarray of RentMbalways returnedPer-microburb rents, dearest first.
highestobjectmay be nullMedian weekly house rent for one microburb (mesh block).
lowestobjectmay be nullMedian weekly house rent for one microburb (mesh block).
/v1/suburbs/{suburb_name}/market/rent-mapcurl --request GET \
--url 'https://api.microburbs.com.au/v1/suburbs/Belmont%20North/market/rent-map' \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer test'{
"data": {
"suburb": "Belmont North",
"metric": "median_weekly_rent_house",
"unit": "AUD_per_week",
"as_of": "2026-08-16",
"definition": "Modelled median (50th-percentile) advertised weekly rent for a house in the mesh block. Mesh block = 'microburb', the smallest ABS geography (~30-60 dwellings). Microburbs with too little rental signal are absent rather than zero. Compare the suburb-wide figure at /market/median-rent.",
"n_microburbs": 58,
"microburbs": [
{
"mb": "10439020000",
"street": "Floraville",
"weekly_rent": 1140
}
],
"highest": {
"mb": "10439020000",
"street": "Floraville",
"weekly_rent": 1140
},
"lowest": {
"mb": "10434270000",
"street": "Somerset",
"weekly_rent": 519
}
}
}