Jacka is in Unincorporated ACT LGA, ACT, postcode 2914, with population 712.
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Entry price sits in the lower-cost range for a first-pass screen.
Evidence depth is verify-heavy, so the profile should be treated as provisional. Small local population makes the signal set more fragile.
Houses to 2020 · Units to 2024 — house and unit medians are released on separate cycles, so their latest period can differ.
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65% of homes here are owner-occupied and 34% rented, with 12% of landlords negatively geared.
A balanced 65% owner-occupier / 34% renter mix.
Social housing is 9% of dwellings — check tenant mix and resale demand.
ABS Census 2021 tenure (G37), ATO postcode rental statistics, and QuickProperty's investor-exposure index. Owner-occupied = owned outright + with a mortgage.
New-loan repayment $2,744/mo vs median rent $1,950/mo (+41% · +$183/wk)
At 4.2%: $2,191/mo (-553) · at 6.2% (current): $2,744/mo · at 8.2%: $3,350/mo (+606)
Assumes a 20% deposit and a 30-year principal-and-interest loan at the current RBA new owner-occupier variable rate, against median weekly household income (ABS Census 2021). Stress bands follow the 30% / 45%-of-income thresholds used in ANZ-CoreLogic and AIHW reporting. Rent vs buy compares that repayment with the suburb's median advertised rent; it excludes rates, insurance, maintenance and deposit opportunity cost.
This suburb 5.0x · ACT median 8.0x — more affordable than the ACT typical
Nationally · more affordable to buy than 91% of AU suburbs
This suburb 21% · ACT median 18%
Nationally · lighter rent burden than 38% of AU suburbs
Owners with a mortgage repay a median of $1,772/mo, while renters pay about $1,950/mo — renting runs $178/mo higher on these medians.
Serviceability line: a household needs about $2,111/wk to hold a new loan on the median house at 30% of income (20% deposit, 30-year P&I, current RBA rate).
At the median asking rent, about 25% of households here would spend more than 30% of income on rent (rent stress line: $1,500/wk income).
Getting to work: 78% drive, 4% public transport, 0% walk or cycle, 10% worked from home (2021 Census, taken during COVID-era work-from-home arrangements).
Top 98% most liveable of 4,565Australian suburbs.
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Suburb-level access-density index (not an address-level walk-time score), normalised within Australian suburbs. Method based on the Urban Liveability Index (Higgs et al. 2019) and Walk Score — three equal-weighted domains combined with an imbalance penalty.
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ABS population projection (2022 base) for the Jacka SA2 statistical area — the finest official projection grain available; suburb-level projections do not exist.
Jacka is a small locality in Australian Capital Territory within the Unincorporated ACT local government area (postcode 2914). It is home to about 712 residents, with a predominantly early-career demographic and a median age of 30. Households earn a median income of $112K per year, with an average household size of 2.9 people. Recent annual estimates show population movement staying broadly stable across the broader catchment, with population growth running at +1.3% year-on-year at the LGA level. ACT employment has moved +1.7% year-on-year in the official ABS Labour Force trend series, which provides the broader jobs backdrop for this suburb. ACT also had 5 Commonwealth-backed major projects under construction, 4 underway, and 6 in planning as at 2025-09-01, which is useful as a broader delivery backdrop rather than a suburb-specific project count. The most common occupations are professionals, clerical & administrative, community & personal service. Employment in the area leans toward public admin & safety and healthcare. The top ancestries reported are Australian, English, Indian.
Jacka has a median house price of $560,000, holding roughly steady year-on-year. Units have a median price of $671,000 (+13.2% YoY). The median weekly rent is $450 (Census 2021). This gives a gross rental yield of approximately 4.2%. The median monthly mortgage repayment is $1,772.
Public transport access includes 2 bus stops. The crime rate in the Unincorporated ACT LGA is low at 1,264 incidents per 100,000 population.
Looking at the investment signals, The gross rental yield works out to roughly 4.2%, which reads as moderate yield. Property prices sit below the state median ($560K/$1.1M), which can point to relative value. The price-to-income ratio of 5.0x is considered affordable. House prices have moved +0.0% year-on-year. Population growth of +1.3% year-on-year points to stable demand fundamentals. Building approvals have changed +0% year-on-year, indicating steady development activity.
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Jacka is in the Unincorporated ACT Local Government Area, ACT, postcode 2914. Council-level context for Unincorporated ACT LGA (suburb mix, population, rent, and price coverage) is available on the QuickProperty LGA page.
The current median house price in Jacka, ACT is $560K, based on the latest available sales data from state Valuers General offices and ABS Data by Region.
The median weekly rent in Jacka is $450/wk, based on ABS Census 2021 rent fallback.
QuickProperty's investment signals for Jacka show: Moderate Yield, Below Median, Affordable. These are computed from price, rent, income, and population data — not an opaque score.
Property prices come from state Valuers General offices and ABS Data by Region. Demographics are from ABS Census 2021. School ICSEA scores are from ACARA. Crime statistics are from state police agencies. Transport data is sourced from GTFS feeds.
Property prices update quarterly. RBA macro indicators update with each deploy. Demographics are from Census 2021. School ICSEA scores are from ACARA 2025.