Walla Walla (postcode 2659) is a small community in New South Wales within the Greater Hume Shire local government area. It is home to about 811 residents, with an established demographic and a median age of 44. Households earn a median income of $61K per year, with an average household size of 2.3 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 managers, technicians & trades, labourers. Employment in the area leans toward agriculture and manufacturing. The top ancestries reported are Australian, English, German.
Walla Walla has a median house price of $420,000, which has eased back by 2.3% year-on-year. The median weekly rent is $230 (Census 2021). This gives a gross rental yield of approximately 2.8%. The median monthly mortgage repayment is $977.
Walla Walla is served by 3 schools, including 2 primary, 1 secondary. The average ICSEA score is 989, which is around the national average of 1,000. Public transport access includes 34 bus stops. The crime rate in the Greater Hume Shire LGA is below average at 2,124 incidents per 100,000 population.
On the investment side, The gross rental yield works out to roughly 2.8%, which reads as low yield. Property prices sit below the state median ($420K/$1.5M), which can point to relative value. The price-to-income ratio of 6.9x is considered moderate. House prices have moved -2.3% year-on-year.