Johns River is a sparsely populated locality in New South Wales within the Mid-Coast local government area (postcode 2443). The area has roughly 346 residents and a settled, mature resident base, with a median age of 50. Households earn a median income of $62K per year, with an average household size of 2.4 people. Recent annual estimates show population movement staying broadly stable across the broader catchment, with population growth running at +0.7% year-on-year at the LGA level. NSW employment has moved +1.2% year-on-year in the official ABS Labour Force trend series, which provides the broader jobs backdrop for this suburb. NSW also had 35 Commonwealth-backed major projects under construction, 17 underway, and 67 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, technicians & trades, labourers. Employment in the area leans toward healthcare and construction. The top ancestries reported are English, Australian, Irish.
Johns River has a median house price of $749,000, which has softened modestly by 0.8% year-on-year. The current median weekly rent is $535. This gives a gross rental yield of approximately 3.7%. The median monthly mortgage repayment is $1,344.
Public transport access includes 16 bus stops. The crime rate in the Mid-Coast LGA is moderate at 4,023 incidents per 100,000 population.
On the investment side, The gross rental yield works out to roughly 3.7%, which reads as moderate yield. Property prices sit below the state median ($749K/$1.5M), which can point to relative value. The price-to-income ratio of 12.1x is considered stretched. House prices have moved -0.8% year-on-year. Population growth of +0.7% year-on-year points to stable demand fundamentals. Building approvals have changed +0% year-on-year, indicating steady development activity.