Tocal is a sparsely populated locality in New South Wales within the Dungog local government area (postcode 2421). The area has roughly 47 residents and a young demographic, with a median age of 19. Households earn a median income of $59K per year, with an average household size of 2 people. Recent annual estimates show population movement into the broader catchment, with population growth running at +1.9% 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 labourers, managers. The top ancestries reported are Australian, English, Scottish.
The median weekly rent is $230 (Census 2021).
The crime rate in the Dungog LGA is below average at 2,110 incidents per 100,000 population.
From an investment perspective, Population growth of +1.9% year-on-year points to stable demand fundamentals. Building approvals have changed +0% year-on-year, indicating steady development activity.