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Empire Vale is in Ballina LGA, NSW, postcode 2478, with population 185.
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The local employment base leans toward healthcare and agriculture. Local earnings momentum is not available from the linked ATO series. NSW employment is up +0.3% year-on-year (+14K jobs) and +11.3% over five years in the official NERO dataset. Read this as a broader state jobs backdrop combined with local employment mix, not a suburb-only new-jobs count.
NSW has 37 Commonwealth-backed major projects under construction, 5 underway, and 75 in planning as at 2024-10-02. This suburb also matches 13 local transport stops or stations, which adds nearby access context but does not prove direct project exposure. Read this as a state delivery backdrop, not a suburb-specific project list.
Empire Vale is a quiet locality in New South Wales within the Ballina local government area (postcode 2478). With a population of 185, the suburb has a mature demographic with a median age of 48. Households earn a median income of $74K per year, with an average household size of 2.7 people. NSW employment has moved +0.3% year-on-year in the official Jobs and Skills Australia NERO series, which provides the broader jobs backdrop for this suburb. NSW also had 37 Commonwealth-backed major projects under construction, 5 underway, and 75 in planning as at 2 October 2024, which is useful as a broader delivery backdrop rather than a suburb-specific project count. The most common occupations are labourers, technicians & trades, professionals. Employment in the area leans toward healthcare and agriculture. The top ancestries reported are Australian, English, Irish.
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Schools, transport, and hospitals are useful as presence signals, but they still have different source cadences.
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Property prices, Market rent, Crime, Schools
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Hospitals, Population growth, Building approvals
Gross yield screens at about 4.6%. Recent price movement shows visible market momentum. The page is thin enough that nearby alternatives should be checked before shortlisting. Small local population makes the signal set more fragile.
Use stronger nearby reads or rankings before treating this suburb as a shortlist candidate.
Gross yield screens at about 4.6%. Recent price movement shows visible market momentum. Transport coverage adds a practical access signal.
The page is thin enough that nearby alternatives should be checked before shortlisting. Small local population makes the signal set more fragile.
No decisive evidence gap was detected from the current inputs.
Use as context
This page stays indexable because Empire Vale is a real locality with enough context to be directionally useful. The tradeoff is that coverage is lighter than a stronger suburb profile, so the read should stay cautious.
Small-population localities can still be worth checking, but rankings, comparisons, and broad suburb assumptions become noisier faster.
The main gaps on this page are hospital coverage, population trend data, and building approvals. That narrows how much confidence you should place on a single-page read.
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Similar local read: useful for context, but still compare the actual market signals.
The detailed view stays here for deeper inspection. If you want the complete charts, profile tables, data-status panel, and related suburb browsing, this is still the advanced mode.
Empire Vale is a quiet locality in New South Wales within the Ballina local government area (postcode 2478). With a population of 185, the suburb has a mature demographic with a median age of 48. Households earn a median income of $74K per year, with an average household size of 2.7 people. NSW employment has moved +0.3% year-on-year in the official Jobs and Skills Australia NERO series, which provides the broader jobs backdrop for this suburb. NSW also had 37 Commonwealth-backed major projects under construction, 5 underway, and 75 in planning as at 2 October 2024, which is useful as a broader delivery backdrop rather than a suburb-specific project count. The most common occupations are labourers, technicians & trades, professionals. Employment in the area leans toward healthcare and agriculture. The top ancestries reported are Australian, English, Irish.
The median house price in Empire Vale is $850,000, having surged 19.6% over the past year. The current median weekly rent is $760. This gives a gross rental yield of approximately 4.6%. The median monthly mortgage repayment is $1,613.
Empire Vale is served by 1 school, including 1 primary. The average ICSEA score is 941, which is below the national average of 1,000. Public transport access includes 13 bus stops. The crime rate in the Ballina LGA is moderate at 4,120 incidents per 100,000 population.
From an investment perspective, Empire Vale offers a gross rental yield of 4.6%, rated as moderate yield. Property prices sit below the state median ($850K/$1.5M), suggesting a potential value opportunity. The price-to-income ratio of 11.4x is considered stretched. House prices have moved +19.6% year-on-year.
Empire Vale is a quiet locality in New South Wales within the Ballina local government area (postcode 2478). With a population of 185, the suburb has a mature demographic with a median age of 48. Households earn a median income of $74K per year, with an average household size of 2.7 people. NSW employment has moved +0.3% year-on-year in the official Jobs and Skills Australia NERO series, which provides the broader jobs backdrop for this suburb. NSW also had 37 Commonwealth-backed major projects under construction, 5 underway, and 75 in planning as at 2 October 2024, which is useful as a broader delivery backdrop rather than a suburb-specific project count. The most common occupations are labourers, technicians & trades, professionals. Employment in the area leans toward healthcare and agriculture. The top ancestries reported are Australian, English, Irish.
The median house price in Empire Vale is $850,000, having surged 19.6% over the past year. The current median weekly rent is $760. This gives a gross rental yield of approximately 4.6%. The median monthly mortgage repayment is $1,613.
Empire Vale is served by 1 school, including 1 primary. The average ICSEA score is 941, which is below the national average of 1,000. Public transport access includes 13 bus stops. The crime rate in the Ballina LGA is moderate at 4,120 incidents per 100,000 population.
From an investment perspective, Empire Vale offers a gross rental yield of 4.6%, rated as moderate yield. Property prices sit below the state median ($850K/$1.5M), suggesting a potential value opportunity. The price-to-income ratio of 11.4x is considered stretched. House prices have moved +19.6% year-on-year.