Cost of living explorer 2025: track the impact of Australia’s quarterly CPI on prices
Use this inflation data explorer to see which goods and services are getting cheaper or more expensive in different Australian cities
Over the past 12 months the rate of inflation was 2.4%, according to the latest consumer price index (CPI) figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics.
Change in prices is not uniform across Australia, and ABS data shows some capital cities are experiencing greater price rises than others, and some items are increasing in cost more quickly, or even decreasing.
We’ve brought together all the data that goes into Australia’s headline inflation figures, broken down into the most detailed goods and services categories available. This uses the most recent figures, which are for the March 2025 quarter.
The data explorer shows the change in the price index, which is the cost of the item converted to 100 in a given base year, with each other year’s price presented in relation to the base year.
For example, something that originally cost $3 in the base year but now costs $3.5 would show an index changing from 100 to 116. This makes the change in price comparable across different items and services.
The interactive also shows percentage change in price, which compares the price for a given quarter to the quarter one year previous.
According to the ABS, these categories were some of the biggest contributors to changes in the March 2025 quarter:
Education
Education costs increased by 5.2% in the March quarter, which the ABS says is due to fee increases at the start of the school year in secondary education and pre-school and primary education.
Recreation and culture
The cost of recreation and culture declined by 1.6%, due to a fall in the international holiday travel and accommodation category.
Health
Over the past twelve months the health group rose 4.1%. Medical and hospital services (+4.9%) was the main contributor.