CheckRate brings together clear, accessible data on Australian finance, helping people understand the trends shaping borrowing, saving, spending and the broader money landscape.
The RBA looks at a mix of signals before each cash rate decision, from prices and jobs to wages and household spending. These dates show when decisions are announced and help give context to what is happening across Australia’s economy.
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insurance
Australian households reported average annual pet insurance spending of $145 for dogs and $70 for cats in the year to March 2025. These population-wide averages include households without insurance and are not average policy premiums. About 24% of dog owners and 14% of cat owners reported having insurance.
Spending
Insurance prices rose 5.5% in the year to May 2026 and are now 52.7% higher than at the end of 2019, roughly double the rise in headline inflation. Data from the ABS, APRA, the ACCC and the Department of Health.
Spending
Australian households paid an average of $16.74 a week for house and contents insurance and $38.56 a week for accident and health insurance in the ABS's 2015–16 Household Expenditure Survey. These remain the latest official ABS figures for household insurance spending. They are averages across all households, not average premiums paid by insured policyholders.
