Laffing Waters (postcode 2795) is a quiet locality in New South Wales within the Bathurst Regional local government area. It is home to about 98 residents, with a settled mid-life population and a median age of 41. Households earn a median income of $119K per year, with an average household size of 3 people. 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, managers. Employment in the area leans toward healthcare and construction. The top ancestries reported are Australian, English, Irish.
Laffing Waters has a median house price of $1.4 million, which has climbed sharply by 67.6% year-on-year. The current median weekly rent is $520. This gives a gross rental yield of approximately 1.9%. The median monthly mortgage repayment is $1,733.
Public transport access includes 6 bus stops. The crime rate in the Bathurst Regional LGA is below average at 3,968 incidents per 100,000 population.
Looking at the investment signals, The gross rental yield works out to roughly 1.9%, which reads as low yield. Property prices are near the state median ($1.4M/$1.5M). The price-to-income ratio of 12.2x is considered stretched. House prices have moved +67.6% year-on-year.