Press kit for the fuel and commute study
Everything here is free to use with attribution to SuburbCost and a link to the study.
Petrol has already added $1,439 a year, $120 a month, to the median Greater Sydney commute since 30 June. Another 30c a litre would add $511 more. In Greater Brisbane another 30c adds $430 a year.
Assets
- chart.svg, annual fuel cost by road distance, Sydney, with the increase shown as the solid segment
- hero-stat.svg, the single headline statistic
- data.csv, every figure in the chart so it can be checked
- summary.txt, the method and the caveats in plain text
What to know before quoting it
Fuel only. Not the ATO 91c per kilometre rate, which bundles registration, insurance, servicing and depreciation. These figures are deliberately lower than a full running cost.
Median suburb, not median commuter. Suburbs are not equally populated and most people do not work in the CBD.
The two city prices are not the same basis. Sydney is NRMA Weekly Fuel Report, average regular unleaded, Sydney, Monday evening 5 October 2026. Brisbane is FuelRadar, Brisbane average Unleaded 91, as at 9 October 2026. Different operators, four days apart. Report them side by side, not as a difference.
Road distance, not straight line. OSRM routing to each CBD, covering all 760 Greater Sydney and all 443 Greater Brisbane suburbs.