Tarana is a sparsely populated locality in New South Wales within the Bathurst Regional local government area (postcode 2787). With a population of 187, the suburb has a settled, mature resident base with a median age of 48. Households earn a median income of $98K per year, with an average household size of 2.5 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 managers, professionals, community & personal service. Employment in the area leans toward agriculture and construction. The top ancestries reported are Australian, English, Irish.
Median house prices in Tarana stand at $846,000, having dropped significantly by 26.4% over the last twelve months. The current median weekly rent is $405. This gives a gross rental yield of approximately 2.5%. The median monthly mortgage repayment is $1,845.
Public transport access includes 17 bus stops. The crime rate in the Bathurst Regional LGA is below average at 3,968 incidents per 100,000 population.
On the investment side, Gross rental yield sits at around 2.5% (low yield). Property prices sit below the state median ($846K/$1.5M), which can point to relative value. The price-to-income ratio of 8.7x is considered moderate. House prices have moved -26.4% year-on-year.