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Fishers Hill is in Dungog LGA, NSW, postcode 2421, with population 56.
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The local employment base leans toward education 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 2 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.
Fishers Hill is a quiet locality in New South Wales within the Dungog local government area (postcode 2421). With a population of 56, the suburb has an established demographic with a median age of 43. Households earn a median income of $97K per year, with an average household size of 2.9 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 managers, technicians & trades, community & personal service. Employment in the area leans toward education and agriculture. The top ancestries reported are Australian, English, Irish.
This suburb mixes release datasets, Census data, and matched local services. Use the data status block before treating every metric as equally fresh.
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This gives you directional coverage, but it is weaker than a current rent release.
Schools, transport, and hospitals are useful as presence signals, but they still have different source cadences.
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Recent price movement shows visible market momentum. Higher SEIFA context supports a stronger local-quality read. Evidence depth is verify-heavy, so the profile should be treated as provisional. The page is thin enough that nearby alternatives should be checked before shortlisting.
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Recent price movement shows visible market momentum. Higher SEIFA context supports a stronger local-quality read.
Evidence depth is verify-heavy, so the profile should be treated as provisional. The page is thin enough that nearby alternatives should be checked before shortlisting. Premium pricing raises the bar for yield, affordability, and downside checks.
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This page stays indexable because Fishers Hill 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.
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The main gaps on this page are school matches, 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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pop same · house -$730K · rent -$25/wk
Similar local read: useful for context, but still compare the actual market signals.
pop same · house -$2390K · rent +$45/wk
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.
Fishers Hill is a quiet locality in New South Wales within the Dungog local government area (postcode 2421). With a population of 56, the suburb has an established demographic with a median age of 43. Households earn a median income of $97K per year, with an average household size of 2.9 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 managers, technicians & trades, community & personal service. Employment in the area leans toward education and agriculture. The top ancestries reported are Australian, English, Irish.
The median house price in Fishers Hill is $3.9 million, having surged 106.1% over the past year. The median weekly rent is $360 (Census 2021). This gives a gross rental yield of approximately 0.5%. The median monthly mortgage repayment is $2,167.
Public transport access includes 2 bus stops. The crime rate in the Dungog LGA is below average at 2,221 incidents per 100,000 population.
From an investment perspective, Fishers Hill offers a gross rental yield of 0.5%, rated as low yield. Property prices are above the state median ($3.9M/$1.5M), placing it in the premium segment. The price-to-income ratio of 39.8x is considered stretched. House prices have moved +106.1% year-on-year.
Fishers Hill is a quiet locality in New South Wales within the Dungog local government area (postcode 2421). With a population of 56, the suburb has an established demographic with a median age of 43. Households earn a median income of $97K per year, with an average household size of 2.9 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 managers, technicians & trades, community & personal service. Employment in the area leans toward education and agriculture. The top ancestries reported are Australian, English, Irish.
The median house price in Fishers Hill is $3.9 million, having surged 106.1% over the past year. The median weekly rent is $360 (Census 2021). This gives a gross rental yield of approximately 0.5%. The median monthly mortgage repayment is $2,167.
Public transport access includes 2 bus stops. The crime rate in the Dungog LGA is below average at 2,221 incidents per 100,000 population.
From an investment perspective, Fishers Hill offers a gross rental yield of 0.5%, rated as low yield. Property prices are above the state median ($3.9M/$1.5M), placing it in the premium segment. The price-to-income ratio of 39.8x is considered stretched. House prices have moved +106.1% year-on-year.