Household wealth per capita (2019 dollars)
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COVID-19
Increase in real net household wealth per capita
Net saving per capita
Change in number of workers employed by occupation (000s)
Percentage of people receiving JobKeeper and COVID Supplements by household income groups
Impact of past recessions on household after-tax incomes
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Changes in average before-tax income of households ranked by private income March-December 2020
Change in household income (as a % of after-tax income in June 2019)
Distribution of income by source (percentage of all income)
Poverty among JobSeeker recipients with and without COVID income supports (% of all people in poverty)
Average before-tax household income ($pw)
Poverty with and without COVID income supports
Financial stress among social security recipients and all people (2020)
NAB financial stress index, 2014 to June 2021
Social housing commencements by jurisdiction, 2007-2020
Projected change in social housing proportionate share of all housing, 2021-22 – 2023-24
Eligible social housing applicants awaiting tenancy allocation, Australia, 2014-2020
Social housing development activity 2018-20 versus 2021-24
Overview of pandemic economic shutdowns by jurisdictions
Actual and projected new social housing commencements, Australia, 2007 – 2023-24
Projected social housing commencements 2021-22 – 2023-24, and projected net change in social housing provision
Quarterly asking median rent per week, houses
Change in median asking rents, quarter on quarter and year on year to June 2020
Airbnb listings for entire houses, Melbourne, January to October 2020
Airbnb listings for entire houses, Sydney, January to October 2020
New private dwelling approvals, Greater Brisbane
New private dwelling approvals, Greater Melbourne
Average annual change in disposable income during COVID-19
Average changes in hours worked and household incomes during COVID-19
Median advertised rents by state/territory in Australia, 2019-2021
Weekly eviction filings in 2020 and 2021 as a % of pre-pandemic norm, USA
Possession Actions in England, 2019-2021
Evictions, Spain, 2019-2021
Rent arrears and overholding applications, Ireland, 2019-2021
Tribunal applications for rent arrears and termination orders, New Zealand, 2020-21
Pre pandemic tenure security and rental affordability
Income protection variation
Gross Domestic Product, real, seasonally adjusted, domestic currency – indexed (Q4 2019=100)
Cumulative COVID-19 deaths per million population (as at 31 January 2022)
Fiscal stimulus
Unemployment rate and effective unemployment rate
Median agreed rents, indexed – NSW & Victoria 2019-2021
Annual growth rates – social housing stock and population, 2011-2020
Interpretation of Queensland Government published statistics on social housing construction (dwelling commencements)
Asking rents for houses and apartments, 2019 – 2021
Emergency accommodation placements – flow 15 March-30 September 2020 (persons)
Trend in Specialist Homelessness Service (SHS) user cohorts, Aug 2017-Apr 2021
Quarterly net internal migration, greater capital cities combined, March 2011 to March 2021
Eviction proceedings
Private rental vacancy rates, Australia, Sydney & Melbourne, June 2019 to August 2021
Flow of new tenancies in private rental housing, NSW & Vic, 2019-19 to 2020-21
Projected change in social housing proportionate share of all housing, 2021-22 – 2023-24
Rent trends, 2018-21, Australia
Average monthly Specialist Homelessness Services (SHS) assisted caseload
Asking rent change, Aug 2020-Jul 2021 – metro versus non-metro comparison
Annual change in total rental bonds held, June 2019 – June 2021
Number of existing and new rental listings (dwellings), 2016-2021
Rental affordability rates, Victoria, 2017-2021
Total rental bonds held in NSW & private rental housing stock in Victoria, 2018-2021, indexed
Temporary residents’ and international students’ experiences in the COVID emergency, 2020
Rent relief expenditures, 2020
New private dwelling approvals, Greater Sydney
New private dwelling completions, seasonally adjusted, September 2011 to June 2020
Value of new home loan commitments for investor purchase, seasonally adjusted, November 2010 to September 2020
Value of new home loan commitments in Australia, seasonally adjusted, November 2010 to September 2020
Key pandemic policy innovations relevant to minimising housing market disruption and homelessness in Australia
Changes in employment, hours and wages by percentage from March to June 2020
Size of private rental sector, Australia, 1994-2018
Poverty
Headline charts
Community attitudes: Poverty is a problem that can be solved
Comparison of poverty trend and SDG target path
Poverty lines by family type
Percentage of all people in poverty from 1999 – 2019
Community attitudes: Government policies have caused some people to experience poverty
Number of people in poverty by age in 2019-20, and change in poverty
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Poverty gaps
Percentage of children in poverty from 1999-2019
Who is affected?
Poverty among JobSeeker recipients with and without COVID income supports (% of all people in poverty)
Financial stress among social security recipients and all people (2020)
Rate of poverty by gender of household reference person (% of all people)
Number of people in poverty by location in 2019-20, and change in poverty
Rate of poverty by location in 2019-20, and change in poverty
Poverty in income support households (2019-20 compared with previous years – % of people)
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Poverty by main household income (2019-20 compared with previous years – % of people)
Poverty by age and family type (2019-20 compared with previous years, % of people)
Change in number of single and couple parents employed through 2020 (December 2019 = 0%)
Number of people in poverty in 2019-20 by housing tenure, and change in poverty
Number of adults in poverty in 2019-20 by country of birth, and change in poverty
Number of people in poverty by labour force status of main income-earner in 2019-20, and change in poverty
Number of adults in poverty by disability status in 2019-20, and change in poverty
Rate of poverty by labour force status of main income-earner in 2019-20, and change in poverty
Average poverty gap for ‘income support households’, by payment type ($pw)
Rate of poverty by social security payment received by ‘income support households’ in 2019-20, and change in poverty
Average poverty gap by main source of income ($pw)
Number of people in poverty by main household income source in 2019-20, and change in poverty
Number of people in poverty by family type in 2019-20, and change in poverty
Number of people in poverty by gender in 2019-20, and change in poverty
Number of children in poverty in 2019-20, and change in child poverty
Number of people in poverty by age in 2019-20, and change in poverty
Rates of poverty and number of people in poverty in 2019-20, and changes in poverty after COVID income supports were introduced
Social security rate structure
Profile of poverty by gender of household reference person
How has it changed?
Poverty with and without COVID income supports
NAB financial stress index, 2014 to June 2021
Fiscal stimulus
Unemployment rate and effective unemployment rate
Comparison of poverty rates measured before and after housing costs
Housing & homelessness
How does Australia compare?
Poverty rates in OECD countries
Inequality
Wealth inequality
Headline charts
Average wealth per adult in 2020
Average wealth of households by age, as a percentage of the average wealth of all (%)
Share of wealth held by households ranked by wealth (% in 2021)
Wealth inequality (Gini coefficient)
Share of all wealth held by 131 billionaires compared with low-wealth groups (%)
Proportion of median income required to pay the median rent (%)
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Concentration and share of overall wealth, by asset type, from 2018 to 2021
Average wealth of 131 billionaires compared with the top 1% of households ($m)
Cumulative growth in superannuation assets
Wealth inequality
Components of wealth
Wealth inequality
Trends
Trends in wealth inequality (Gini coefficient) by asset type
Wealth inequality
Housing & homelessness
Average wealth of households by age, as a percentage of the average wealth of all (%)
Proportion of median income required to pay the median rent (%)
Proportion of median income required to pay a typical mortgage on a recently purchased home (%)
Wealth inequality
How does Australia compare?
Share of indebted households with debt-to-annual income ratio above three
Income inequality
Headline charts
Cumulative growth in superannuation assets
Change in number of workers employed by occupation (000s)
Impact of past recessions on household after-tax incomes
Change in household income (as a % of after-tax income in June 2019)
Distribution of income by source (percentage of all income)
Average annual change in disposable income during COVID-19
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Average changes in hours worked and household incomes during COVID-19
Income inequality
Components of income
Distribution of income by source (percentage of all income)
Income inequality
Who is affected?
Profile of wealth of each wealth group
Change in number of workers employed by occupation (000s)
Income inequality
Trends
Impact of past recessions on household after-tax incomes
Income inequality
Housing & homelessness
Income inequality
How does Australia compare?
Health inequality
All
Community attitudes: Unemployment payments should be enough for people to be able to see the doctor when they need
Mental health conditions by weekly equivalised household income
Heart, stroke and vascular diseases, diabetes and arthritis by main income source
Heart, stroke and vascular diseases, diabetes and arthritis by SEIFA
Heart, stroke and vascular diseases, diabetes and arthritis and diabetes by labour force status group
Heart, stroke and vascular diseases, diabetes and arthritis by income group
Good self-assessed health by weekly equivalised household income
Premature deaths – male and female, by socioeconomic status
