Australian suburb rankings

Live leaderboards across the 34-market research dataset, ranked on the signals that matter to investors: overall Scanner Score, rental yield, supply tightness, rent momentum, cashflow and policy resilience. Rankings are dataset-relative and refresh each monthly batch. Research only, not financial advice.

Highest Scanner Scores

The strongest overall research signal in the current dataset — the composite of yield, supply, rent momentum, policy exposure and discovery status.

Best investment suburbs 2026
01Moe / NewboroughVIC7402EmeraldQLD7303GladstoneQLD7304MackayQLD7005Broken HillNSW7006RockhamptonQLD6907MorwellVIC6808Kalgoorlie-BoulderWA68

Highest Rental Yield

Gross rental income relative to entry price. The first-pass filter most income-focused investors reach for, ranked highest to lowest.

High rental yield suburbs
01Mount IsaQLD8.4%02KarrathaWA6.9%03Broken HillNSW6.7%04Moe / NewboroughVIC6.5%05Kalgoorlie-BoulderWA6.4%06Alice SpringsNT6.3%07WhyallaSA6.2%08EmeraldQLD6.1%

Tightest Rental Supply

The lowest vacancy rates in the dataset — markets where available rental stock is scarce relative to tenant demand, a leading indicator of rent pressure.

Low vacancy suburbs
01WhyallaSA0.5%02EmeraldQLD0.7%03GladstoneQLD0.8%04MackayQLD0.8%05Kalgoorlie-BoulderWA0.8%06Moe / NewboroughVIC0.9%07RockhamptonQLD0.9%08BunburyWA0.9%

Strongest Rent Growth

Markets with the fastest 12-month rental growth — where rents are re-rating, often ahead of price.

Strongest rental growth suburbs
01WhyallaSA+8%02TownsvilleQLD+7.8%03BunburyWA+7.8%04GladstoneQLD+7.5%05GeraldtonWA+7.1%06MackayQLD+7%07Kalgoorlie-BoulderWA+7%08CairnsQLD+6.8%

Cashflow Leaders

Markets screening cashflow-positive or near-positive at current yield levels, ranked by income strength — less dependent on negative gearing to hold.

Positive geared markets
01Mount IsaQLD8.4%02KarrathaWA6.9%03Broken HillNSW6.7%04Moe / NewboroughVIC6.5%05Kalgoorlie-BoulderWA6.4%06Alice SpringsNT6.3%07WhyallaSA6.2%08EmeraldQLD6.1%

Most Policy-Resilient

Ranked by the policy intelligence engine: cashflow strength, negative-gearing independence and supply tightness combine into resilience against the proposed 2027 negative-gearing changes.

Positive geared markets
01Moe / NewboroughVIC10002EmeraldQLD9803GladstoneQLD9804MackayQLD9805RockhamptonQLD9806MorwellVIC9807Kalgoorlie-BoulderWA9808WhyallaSA98

Emerging Markets

Markets with strong signal but limited national investor coverage — earlier on the discovery curve, where conditions may not yet be widely reflected.

Regional investment markets
01Moe / NewboroughVIC7402EmeraldQLD7303GladstoneQLD7304MackayQLD7005Broken HillNSW7006RockhamptonQLD6907MorwellVIC6808Kalgoorlie-BoulderWA68
WITH MONTHLY HISTORY

These leaderboards compare each market against its own history. They activate once a second monthly batch publishes — every score is being recorded now, so movement appears here as the dataset compounds. Nothing here is estimated or back-filled.

Biggest MoversLargest Scanner Score change since the previous batch.
Most ImprovedSustained score improvement across batches.
Fastest CoolingMarkets losing score across batches.
Most WatchedMost-monitored markets across SuburbScanner users.