{
  "version": "2026-10-08",
  "title": "Average house size in Australia",
  "sourceWorkbook": {
    "url": "https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/industry/building-and-construction/building-activity-australia/dec-2025/Building%20Activity%20Average%20Floor%20Area.xlsx",
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    "releasedOn": "2026-04-08",
    "licence": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "attribution": "Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Building Activity, Australia, Average Floor Area. ABS data used with permission from the Australian Bureau of Statistics."
  },
  "tables": [
    {
      "source": {
        "owner": "Australian Bureau of Statistics",
        "title": "Building Activity, Australia: Average Floor Area, December 2025 release",
        "url": "https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/industry/building-and-construction/building-activity-australia/dec-2025"
      },
      "period": "Financial year 2024–25",
      "geography": "Australia",
      "unit": "Average floor area in square metres (m²)",
      "denominator": "Newly completed dwellings of the stated type and geography; not all existing homes.",
      "method": "Transcribed from the ABS Average Floor Area workbook, December 2025 release, published 8 April 2026. Published averages and precision are retained; no microdata calculation or significance test by Simply Maid.",
      "qualification": "Newly completed dwellings only. These means do not describe all Australian homes, land area or the area included in a cleaning service.",
      "missing": "Not published means the geography/type combination is absent from this workbook. It is not zero and is not estimated.",
      "weighting": "Published ABS national and jurisdiction averages are used directly. States and dwelling types are not averaged together.",
      "exclusions": "Existing housing stock and renovations are outside these new-dwelling series. No city, suburb or bedroom-count estimates are inferred.",
      "threshold": "No additional Simply Maid suppression threshold. Counts and sampling errors are not supplied in this workbook; consult ABS methodology for survey limitations.",
      "cutoff": "Source checked 8 October 2026; latest annual floor-area observation in this workbook is 2024–25.",
      "version": "2026-10-08",
      "id": "new-dwelling-size",
      "title": "Average size of new Australian dwellings",
      "canonical": "https://simplymaid.com.au/research/average-house-size-australia#new-dwelling-size",
      "finding": "New houses averaged 241.5 m² in Australia in 2024–25; new townhouses averaged 174.48 m² and new apartments 125.27 m² (ABS).",
      "columns": [
        "New dwelling type",
        "Average floor area (m²)"
      ],
      "rows": [
        [
          "New houses",
          241.5
        ],
        [
          "New townhouses",
          174.48
        ],
        [
          "New apartments",
          125.27
        ]
      ],
      "chart": {
        "labelColumn": 0,
        "valueColumn": 1,
        "unit": "m²",
        "max": 300
      }
    },
    {
      "source": {
        "owner": "Australian Bureau of Statistics",
        "title": "Building Activity, Australia: Average Floor Area, December 2025 release",
        "url": "https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/industry/building-and-construction/building-activity-australia/dec-2025"
      },
      "period": "Financial year 2024–25",
      "geography": "Australian states and territories, plus Australia",
      "unit": "Average floor area in square metres (m²)",
      "denominator": "Newly completed dwellings of the stated type and geography; not all existing homes.",
      "method": "Transcribed from the ABS Average Floor Area workbook, December 2025 release, published 8 April 2026. Published averages and precision are retained; no microdata calculation or significance test by Simply Maid.",
      "qualification": "Newly completed dwellings only. These means do not describe all Australian homes, land area or the area included in a cleaning service.",
      "missing": "Not published means the geography/type combination is absent from this workbook. It is not zero and is not estimated.",
      "weighting": "Published ABS national and jurisdiction averages are used directly. States and dwelling types are not averaged together.",
      "exclusions": "Existing housing stock and renovations are outside these new-dwelling series. No city, suburb or bedroom-count estimates are inferred.",
      "threshold": "No additional Simply Maid suppression threshold. Counts and sampling errors are not supplied in this workbook; consult ABS methodology for survey limitations.",
      "cutoff": "Source checked 8 October 2026; latest annual floor-area observation in this workbook is 2024–25.",
      "version": "2026-10-08",
      "id": "new-house-size-by-state",
      "title": "Average new house size by state and territory",
      "canonical": "https://simplymaid.com.au/research/average-house-size-australia#new-house-size-by-state",
      "finding": "In 2024–25, average new house floor area ranged from 165.8 m² in Tasmania to 298.2 m² in the ACT (ABS); these are jurisdiction averages, not city estimates.",
      "columns": [
        "State or territory",
        "New houses (m²)",
        "New townhouses (m²)",
        "New apartments (m²)"
      ],
      "rows": [
        [
          "New South Wales",
          236.1,
          165.75,
          122.6
        ],
        [
          "Victoria",
          253.5,
          182.4,
          123.09
        ],
        [
          "Queensland",
          230.9,
          167.8,
          141.16
        ],
        [
          "South Australia",
          218.1,
          174.94,
          "Not published"
        ],
        [
          "Western Australia",
          256.8,
          184.94,
          "Not published"
        ],
        [
          "Tasmania",
          165.8,
          136.99,
          "Not published"
        ],
        [
          "Northern Territory",
          206.5,
          163.52,
          "Not published"
        ],
        [
          "Australian Capital Territory",
          298.2,
          179.6,
          "Not published"
        ],
        [
          "Australia",
          241.5,
          174.48,
          125.27
        ]
      ],
      "chart": {
        "labelColumn": 0,
        "valueColumn": 1,
        "unit": "New houses · m²",
        "max": 320
      }
    },
    {
      "source": {
        "owner": "Australian Bureau of Statistics",
        "title": "Building Activity, Australia: Average Floor Area, December 2025 release",
        "url": "https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/industry/building-and-construction/building-activity-australia/dec-2025"
      },
      "period": "Financial years 2010–11 to 2024–25",
      "geography": "Australia",
      "unit": "Average floor area in square metres (m²)",
      "denominator": "Newly completed dwellings of the stated type and geography; not all existing homes.",
      "method": "Transcribed from the ABS Average Floor Area workbook, December 2025 release, published 8 April 2026. Published averages and precision are retained; no microdata calculation or significance test by Simply Maid.",
      "qualification": "Newly completed dwellings only. These means do not describe all Australian homes, land area or the area included in a cleaning service.",
      "missing": "Not published means the geography/type combination is absent from this workbook. It is not zero and is not estimated.",
      "weighting": "Published ABS national and jurisdiction averages are used directly. States and dwelling types are not averaged together.",
      "exclusions": "Existing housing stock and renovations are outside these new-dwelling series. No city, suburb or bedroom-count estimates are inferred.",
      "threshold": "No additional Simply Maid suppression threshold. Counts and sampling errors are not supplied in this workbook; consult ABS methodology for survey limitations.",
      "cutoff": "Source checked 8 October 2026; latest annual floor-area observation in this workbook is 2024–25.",
      "version": "2026-10-08",
      "id": "new-house-size-over-time",
      "title": "Australian new house size over time",
      "canonical": "https://simplymaid.com.au/research/average-house-size-australia#new-house-size-over-time",
      "finding": "New Australian houses averaged 240.0 m² in 2010–11 and 241.5 m² in 2024–25 (ABS). The annual series fluctuated rather than rising each year.",
      "columns": [
        "Financial year",
        "New house average floor area (m²)"
      ],
      "rows": [
        [
          "2010–11",
          240
        ],
        [
          "2011–12",
          241.5
        ],
        [
          "2012–13",
          238.3
        ],
        [
          "2013–14",
          233.9
        ],
        [
          "2014–15",
          230.6
        ],
        [
          "2015–16",
          231.1
        ],
        [
          "2016–17",
          233
        ],
        [
          "2017–18",
          232.6
        ],
        [
          "2018–19",
          229.8
        ],
        [
          "2019–20",
          236.7
        ],
        [
          "2020–21",
          230
        ],
        [
          "2021–22",
          232.4
        ],
        [
          "2022–23",
          237.6
        ],
        [
          "2023–24",
          240.5
        ],
        [
          "2024–25",
          241.5
        ]
      ],
      "chart": {
        "labelColumn": 0,
        "valueColumn": 1,
        "unit": "New houses · m²",
        "max": 300
      }
    }
  ]
}