Authority data on Australian home-services demand, average tradie costs, emergency callout patterns and suburb-level booking trends. All figures are derived from anonymised TaskerAsker quote-request data and updated regularly to reflect current market conditions across NSW, VIC, QLD, WA, SA, ACT, TAS and NT.
The TaskerAsker stats hub publishes the underlying numbers behind Australia's home-services market — which trades Australians book most often, how demand splits between scheduled and emergency work, where prices are climbing or holding steady, and how patterns differ between Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide and the regional centres in between. Every report is built from real anonymised quote-request and booking data on the platform, not survey panels or third-party estimates, so the numbers reflect what is actually happening in the market right now.
Browse current average-cost benchmarks for the most-requested trades in each major Australian city — plumber, electrician, cleaner, handyman, locksmith, pest control and air conditioning, across Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide, Gold Coast, Canberra and Hobart. Each combination has its own page with the average hourly rate, common job-size range and year-on-year change.
Each report aggregates anonymised TaskerAsker data at the geography level shown in the table caption. Sample sizes are stated alongside every figure. Categories with fewer than 100 observations in the rolling four-month window are excluded rather than estimated. Outliers (top and bottom five per cent) are trimmed before averaging so a single unusually large or small job does not skew the median. No individual customer or business data is identifiable. Detailed methodology and per-source last-refreshed dates are published in our data sources reference.
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Every figure on the TaskerAsker stats hub is derived from anonymised quote-request and booking data on the TaskerAsker platform. We aggregate at state, metropolitan and suburb level. Sample sizes are reported alongside every figure; categories with insufficient data are excluded rather than estimated, and outliers (top and bottom five per cent) are trimmed before averaging.
Headline figures and the cost index are updated monthly using a rolling four-month window of anonymised data. State-level and metro-level breakdowns are refreshed at the same cadence. Each page shows its last-updated date so you can confirm currency before citing it.
Yes. Every page includes a Citation block with a suggested format. We ask that you include the page title, the canonical taskerasker.com.au URL, and the access date so readers can verify the figures.
Both. National figures and the cost index include regional postcodes alongside capital-city metros. Where a metro-only or suburb-only figure is reported, the scope is stated explicitly in the table caption.
Use the cost index and average-cost-by-trade-and-city pages to benchmark a quote before you accept it — if a price is more than 30% above or below the local median for that trade and job size, ask the tradie to itemise the difference. Pair the stats with our published cost guides and price calculators for trade-specific context.