Two streets in the same suburb can finish a year a long way apart. Here is the past year at street level across the middle of each capital, measured against the typical Australian suburb.
Past year growth, 20 July 2025 to 19 July 2026, for every microburb within two kilometres of the centre, against the typical Australian suburb over the same period. Read the suburb figure rather than the ranking between microburbs. Click any one for its report.
Switch capitals along the top. Hover any microburb for its number, click it for that suburb's report. Every other suburb, and every property in the country, has its own.
Your suburb, both timeframes
Start typing a suburb. You will get its plain one-year and three-year answer here, then you can open the full suburb report if it is useful.
Past growth is evidence, not a forecast.
Please choose a suburb from the list so the state is clear.
Our own research, across 27 years of Australian sales, groups suburbs by their three-year growth and measures what happened over the following eight years. Strong recent runs went on to underperform. That is the impact to read these figures against.
| Three-year growth | What followed, per year | Signal | Suburbs here |
|---|---|---|---|
| Below 38% | +1.70% above average | Buy | 3,806 of 5,888 (65%) |
| 38% to 53% | -0.99% below average | Caution | 1,045 (18%) |
| Above 53% | -1.37% below average | Avoid | 1,037 (18%) |
Which is why the past year matters. A suburb can be running hard right now and still sit in the avoid band on its three-year record. Read both figures together, then check the band. See the research behind these thresholds.
The map above shows two kilometres of one capital. A suburb report covers a whole suburb, every microburb inside it and every property. Here is a slice of nine of them. Read each suburb's own two figures as the finding: the ranking between microburbs inside a suburb is indicative.
Past year +3.3% and past three years -1.5% against the typical Australian suburb.
The report breaks it into 233 microburbs across 10,706 homes, each read from the sales nearest to it, so you can see which part of the suburb you are buying in rather than one average for all of it.
Properties here: 42 Robertson Street71 Fifth Avenue
Open the Campsie report →Past year +5.1% and past three years -14.7% against the typical Australian suburb.
The report breaks it into 73 microburbs across 3,690 homes, each read from the sales nearest to it, so you can see which part of the suburb you are buying in rather than one average for all of it.
Properties here: 1 Hartopp Lane287 Kelvin Grove Road
Open the Kelvin Grove report →Past year +5.2% and past three years -4.7% against the typical Australian suburb.
The report breaks it into 91 microburbs across 3,478 homes, each read from the sales nearest to it, so you can see which part of the suburb you are buying in rather than one average for all of it.
Properties here: 45 Napier Street31b Curtin Avenue
Open the Cottesloe report →Past year -2.0% and past three years +7.8% against the typical Australian suburb.
The report breaks it into 285 microburbs across 11,792 homes, each read from the sales nearest to it, so you can see which part of the suburb you are buying in rather than one average for all of it.
Properties here: 62 Excelsior Street20a Elsinore Street
Open the Merrylands report →Past year -1.8% and past three years +18.9% against the typical Australian suburb.
The report breaks it into 187 microburbs across 8,208 homes, each read from the sales nearest to it, so you can see which part of the suburb you are buying in rather than one average for all of it.
Properties here: 16 Kalbarri Court4 Staghorn Parade
Open the North Lakes report →Past year -1.8% and past three years +41.0% against the typical Australian suburb.
The report breaks it into 177 microburbs across 6,523 homes, each read from the sales nearest to it, so you can see which part of the suburb you are buying in rather than one average for all of it.
Properties here: 34 Carinata Crescent15 Kane Way
Open the Byford report →Past year +7.8% and past three years +38.6% against the typical Australian suburb.
The report breaks it into 225 microburbs across 9,653 homes, each read from the sales nearest to it, so you can see which part of the suburb you are buying in rather than one average for all of it.
Properties here: 25 Hewton Street27a Ivanhoe Street
Open the Morley report →Past year +6.9% and past three years +18.9% against the typical Australian suburb.
The report breaks it into 226 microburbs across 9,544 homes, each read from the sales nearest to it, so you can see which part of the suburb you are buying in rather than one average for all of it.
Properties here: 10 Hinkler Court25 Parer Crescent
Open the Morayfield report →Past year +12.4% and past three years +7.0% against the typical Australian suburb.
The report breaks it into 164 microburbs across 7,203 homes, each read from the sales nearest to it, so you can see which part of the suburb you are buying in rather than one average for all of it.
Properties here: 37a Wilson Street33-37 Austral Street
Open the Kogarah report →You look up a suburb. The three-year growth looks strong, so you shortlist it. What that chart cannot tell you is whether the suburb is still growing, or whether it turned eight months ago and the long-run number simply has not caught up yet.
This is not a rare edge case. We compared 5,888 Australian suburbs with enough house sales to measure both horizons reliably, reading to the week ending 19 July 2026. 1,219 suburbs, one in five, sit on the opposite side of the market from where their three-year record puts them.
Across the 5,888 Australian suburbs with enough house sales to measure reliably, 91.4% rose over the past year. The national market is not the problem. The problem is that for one suburb in five, the two horizons point in opposite directions.
2,334 suburbs beat the typical Australian suburb over three years and are still beating it over the past year.
610 suburbs beat the typical suburb over three years but have fallen behind it over the past year. The middle of this group was +10.9% ahead over three years and is -3.5% behind over the past year. These are the ones a long-run chart still flatters.
609 suburbs trailed the typical suburb over three years but are now ahead of it. The middle of this group was -6.9% behind over three years and is +3.3% ahead over the past year. These are the ones a long-run screen throws away.
2,335 suburbs trailed on both horizons.
These are ordinary members of each group, not the best cases. Every suburb named below sits close to the middle of its own group, and every one of them is a heavily traded suburb rather than a thin market. We could have picked the extremes and shown you far bigger numbers. The middle is the honest picture.
A few examples in each group, to illustrate. These are not the full list and they are not recommendations. They show what the pattern looks like on the ground.
Ahead of the typical Australian suburb on both horizons: +38.6% over the three years to 19 July 2026, and still +7.8% ahead over the past year.
On a typical $952,000 house, staying that far ahead over the past year is worth about $74,000 more than matching the typical suburb.
Ahead of the typical Australian suburb on both horizons: +18.9% over the three years to 19 July 2026, and still +6.9% ahead over the past year.
On a typical $928,000 house, staying that far ahead over the past year is worth about $64,000 more than matching the typical suburb.
Ahead of the typical Australian suburb on both horizons: +7.0% over the three years to 19 July 2026, and still +12.4% ahead over the past year.
On a typical $2.03 million house, staying that far ahead over the past year is worth about $251,000 more than matching the typical suburb.
Was +7.8% ahead of the typical Australian suburb over the three years to 19 July 2026. Over the past year it slipped to -2.0% behind.
On a typical $1.40 million house, that is about $28,000 less growth than matching the Australian benchmark over the past year, in a suburb the three-year chart still shows as a winner.
Was +18.9% ahead of the typical Australian suburb over the three years to 19 July 2026. Over the past year it slipped to -1.8% behind.
On a typical $1.07 million house, that is about $19,000 less growth than matching the Australian benchmark over the past year, in a suburb the three-year chart still shows as a winner.
Was +41.0% ahead of the typical Australian suburb over the three years to 19 July 2026. Over the past year it slipped to -1.8% behind.
On a typical $855,000 house, that is about $15,000 less growth than matching the Australian benchmark over the past year, in a suburb the three-year chart still shows as a winner.
Was -1.5% behind the typical Australian suburb over the three years to 19 July 2026. Over the past year it ran +3.3% ahead.
On a typical $1.73 million house, that is about $57,000 more growth than matching the Australian benchmark over the past year, in a suburb a three-year screen would have filtered out.
Was -14.7% behind the typical Australian suburb over the three years to 19 July 2026. Over the past year it ran +5.1% ahead.
On a typical $1.43 million house, that is about $73,000 more growth than matching the Australian benchmark over the past year, in a suburb a three-year screen would have filtered out.
Was -4.7% behind the typical Australian suburb over the three years to 19 July 2026. Over the past year it ran +5.2% ahead.
On a typical $3.39 million house, that is about $176,000 more growth than matching the Australian benchmark over the past year, in a suburb a three-year screen would have filtered out.
Every figure below compares the typical suburb in that state or city with the typical suburb nationally, over the same period. A positive number means suburbs there grew faster than the national middle.
| State | Suburbs measured | Past year vs national | Three years vs national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Western Australia | 588 | +8.5% | +27.9% |
| South Australia | 649 | +5.4% | +15.2% |
| Queensland | 1,361 | +5.0% | +14.6% |
| Tasmania | 347 | -1.2% | -1.7% |
| New South Wales | 1,610 | -2.4% | -5.9% |
| Victoria | 1,202 | -5.2% | -14.9% |
| Australian Capital Territory | 106 | -6.3% | -20.0% |
| Northern Territory | 25 | -8.0% | -24.6% |
| City | Suburbs measured | Past year vs national | Three years vs national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Perth | 285 | +12.5% | +39.0% |
| Brisbane | 422 | +7.4% | +20.0% |
| Adelaide | 384 | +6.2% | +16.4% |
| Hobart | 87 | -1.7% | -11.9% |
| Sydney | 722 | -2.6% | -7.0% |
| Canberra | 106 | -6.3% | -20.0% |
| Melbourne | 488 | -8.7% | -21.8% |
All figures are for houses, over the year and the three years to 19 July 2026.
Read both horizons before you shortlist. A suburb that is strong over three years and weak over the past year is a different proposition from one that is strong over both. The three-year number alone cannot separate them, and one suburb in five falls into that gap.
Ask when the number was last updated. Most published growth figures run months behind the market. If a suburb turned in the past two quarters, a chart built on older numbers will not show it yet. Our figures are built from a weekly price series, and this page reads to the week ending 19 July 2026.
Treat a weak three-year record as a question, not an answer. 609 suburbs trailed the country over three years and are now ahead of it. A screen that filters on long-run growth alone removes every one of them from your list before you look.
Check the suburb you are actually looking at. The four groups above cover 5,888 suburbs and we have named nine. Your suburb report shows which side of the line your suburb sits on, on both horizons.
Microburbs Research started with 9,590 Australian suburbs and compared house price growth over the past year and the past three years, reading to the week ending 19 July 2026. 5,888 trade actively enough for us to publish a figure we trust. Where a suburb trades too thinly for the number to be trustworthy, we hold it back rather than print it.
Two independent checks support the result. Where the same home has sold twice, the growth between its own two sale prices lines up with what we publish, both nationally and state by state. And our state ranking matches the one published by the industry's most widely quoted index.
The work covers all eight states and territories and uses a weekly price series.
Get the plain answer for your suburb here, then open the report for the place you are actually buying in.
