Most expensive suburbs to rent a room in Australia

If there’s one topic Sydneysiders love to bring up it’s how expensive their rent is.

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It’s a popular conversation piece amongst Harbour City residents and the figures show why.

According to recent data from Flatmates.com.au a whopping 97 of the top 100 most expensive suburbs to rent a room were in Sydney.

Millers Point in Sydney’s city claimed top spot with an average room rent of $435 per week, a staggering $308 more than the cheapest suburb in the country, Estella in regional NSW.

Sydney’s CBD and Milsons Point rounded out the top three with weekly room rents of $432 and $422, respectively.

Three Melbourne suburbs halted an almost Sydney whitewash with Docklands ranking 70th, Melbourne City 83rd and Southbank 92nd.

Lillyfield in Sydney’s Inner West rounded out the list with an average room rent of $298 per week, making it the only suburb under a $300 average in top 100.

Brisbane City claimed Queensland’s most expensive suburb to let a room—sitting at 114th spot—with average weekly rents hovering at $290.

Elsewhere, Canberra was the ACT’s most expensive ranking 139th, while in the west Perth’s Northbridge took out priciest rooms sitting in 240th spot.

The data took into consideration more than 1400 suburbs nationwide where at least 10 private rooms were listed in the past six months on Flatmates.com.au.

Rank	Suburb	State	Avg Weekly Room Rent
1	Millers Point	NSW	$435
2	Sydney	NSW	$432
3	Milsons Point	NSW	$422
4	Tamarama	NSW	$420
5	Edgecliff	NSW	$399
6	Pyrmont	NSW	$397
7	Kirribilli	NSW	$390
8	Haymarket	NSW	$389
9	Darling Point	NSW	$387
10	Elizabeth Bay	NSW	$384
11	Woolloomooloo	NSW	$379
12	Rushcutters Bay	NSW	$378
13	Waterloo	NSW	$374
14	Zetland	NSW	$374
15	Manly	NSW	$370
16	Birchgrove	NSW	$367
17	Lavender Bay	NSW	$365
18	Bondi Beach	NSW	$363
19	Bondi Junction	NSW	$362
20	Darlinghurst	NSW	$359

^{Data based on all property listings created on Flatmates.com.au between 19 Apr and 19 Oct 2017. Only suburbs with at least 10 private rooms listed were included}

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