Prices

Recent trends in the Consumer Price Index measure of general price inflation, labour costs and residential property prices.

Inflation

Annual and quarterly CPI inflation rates, Australia

Note: Annual rate refers to change from corresponding quarter of previous year. Headline is all groups CPI; underlying is trimmed mean.
Source: ABS, Consumer Price Index, Australia, Cat. No. 6401.0.

	Sector	2016/17	2017/18	2018/19	2019/20	2020/21	2021/22	2022/23
Private	South Australia	2.0	2.0	2.3	2.5	1.5	2.3	3.9
Private	Australia	1.8	2.0	2.2	2.1	1.5	2.4	3.7
Public	South Australia	2.5	2.2	2.1	1.7	1.8	1.6	2.6
Public	Australia	2.4	2.4	2.5	2.3	1.5	2.1	2.7
Private and Public	South Australia	2.2	2.1	2.2	2.4	1.6	2.1	3.5
Private and Public	Australia	2.0	2.0	2.3	2.1	1.5	2.4	3.5