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Sydney

Australia · AUD · share price index, latest 2026-09

The city is a label: every national figure here is Australia's own, and the cost of living is one survey's answer for one adult, with its method and its year.

Poverty line

The least a household needs to spend to avoid being counted as poor.

$2,866.59a month · 2025

€1,636at the ECB's 2025 average

Excluding housing $1,929.20 (€1,101.29)

Monthly poverty line, single person in the workforce, after tax, national (A$661.52 a week).

  • Housing: a component of the budget: Housing is a component of the line; its level is not stated
  • Melbourne Institute, 2025

What the figure is made of

Everything else · $1,929.20 · 67.3%All 2 parts
  • Housing$937.41 32.7%

    A$216.32 a week × 52 ÷ 12

  • Everything else$1,929.20 67.3%

    A$445.20 a week × 52 ÷ 12

How it has changed since 2017

Sydney's poverty line rose 29% from 2017 to 2025, in step with prices, while what a person in Australia spends on average rose 31%.

10011012013014020172019202120232025Spending+31%Poverty line+29%Prices+28%

Each line is 100 in 2017. Each June quarter's line as first published; each edition re-derives the index from revised household income, which is why 2023 sits below 2022.

The whole record

Stock market

At 160 in September 2026, 60% above its 2015 level, in Australian dollars and before inflation. The chart below shows what the Australian dollar was worth in euros.

AUD per euro

1.6 Australian dollars to the euro in October 2026, still under the December 2008 record of 2.01. A rising line is a weaker Australian dollar.

House prices, after inflation

42% above 2010, and at its peak.

The economy

Inflation, one year
2.9%
2025
Average spending per person
€2,491 a month
2025
Income per person, adjusted for local prices
$69,930
2025
Unemployment
4.1%
2025
Life expectancy
83.1 years
2024

What the economy is made of

What the country produces, which is what most people there work in; not which companies move the stock market.

  • Services 67.5%
  • Industry 23.9% (manufacturing 5.3%)
  • Agriculture 2.3%
  • Taxes less subsidies 6.3%
How this is calculated
Poverty line
Henderson poverty line is Australia's own method: A relative income line set in 1973 and indexed to per-capita household disposable income, carried forward; not a priced basket. It is not interchangeable with another country's survey, which is why no other city's figure sits beside it.
Prices
No carry-forward. The survey (2025) is not older than Australia's latest CPI year (2025), so nothing is carried: a year of inflation not yet published is not guessed. World Bank FP.CPI.TOTL, annual average.
In euros
At 1.75176 AUD per euro, the ECB's 2025 average, the survey's figure is €1,636.41. ECB euro foreign exchange reference rates.
Change since 2017
Each series divided by its 2017 value. Prices: World Bank FP.CPI.TOTL, annual average. Spending: World Bank NE.CON.PRVT.CN ÷ SP.POP.TOTL, current local currency, household final consumption divided by population, per month. Each June quarter's line as first published; each edition re-derives the index from revised household income, which is why 2023 sits below 2022.
Stock market
OECD via FRED SPASTT01AUM661N, monthly, 2015 = 100, in AUD and before inflation, on a logarithmic scale: equal distance is equal percentage change. Latest 2026-09.
AUD per euro
ECB euro foreign exchange reference rates, monthly average from 1999, on a logarithmic scale. A rising line is a weaker AUD. Latest 2026-10.
House prices, after inflation
BIS via FRED QAUR628BIS, quarterly, 2010 = 100. Indexed to Australia's own 2010, so only the direction compares across countries, never the level. Latest 2026-Q1.
Sources

Melbourne Institute, Poverty Lines: Australia, June Quarter 2025, Table 1 · read from the Internet Archive copy captured 11 Dec 2025 · retrieved 14 Oct 2026

World Bank NE.CON.PRVT.CD ÷ SP.POP.TOTL, ECB annual average · World Bank NY.GNP.PCAP.PP.CD · World Bank SL.UEM.TOTL.ZS · World Bank SP.DYN.LE00.IN · World Bank FP.CPI.TOTL.ZG · World Bank NV.AGR.TOTL.ZS · World Bank NV.IND.TOTL.ZS · World Bank NV.SRV.TOTL.ZS · World Bank NV.IND.MANF.ZS · derived: 100 less agriculture, industry and services. Taxes less subsidies is 100 less the three sectors.