Dongara is in Irwin LGA, WA, postcode 6525, with population 1,393.
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Gross yield screens at about 4.7%. Recent price movement shows visible market momentum.
At / near its all-time high
Indicative cashflow is interest-only and excludes tax — use the calculator for a full projection. Turnover divides recorded sales by an estimated household count (population over average household size).
Bar = this suburb's percentile · tick = typical (median) peer · stability drivers signed (+ = steadier)
Relative grade across Australian suburbs, combining qp's capital-growth (multi-year CAGR + cycle timing), rental-yield, and stability (price volatility + cycle + affordability) metrics via a three-pillar property-scoring method with an imbalance penalty. Within-Australia relative, indicative only — not financial advice.
72% of homes here are owner-occupied and 24% rented, with 5% of landlords negatively geared.
72% owner-occupied — owner-occupiers hold longer and absorb rate shocks, supporting price stability.
ABS Census 2021 tenure (G37), ATO postcode rental statistics, and QuickProperty's investor-exposure index. Owner-occupied = owned outright + with a mortgage.
New-loan repayment $3,202/mo vs median rent $2,600/mo (+23% · +$139/wk)
At 4.0%: $2,549/mo (-652) · at 6.0% (current): $3,202/mo · at 8.0%: $3,918/mo (+717)
Assumes a 20% deposit and a 30-year principal-and-interest loan at the current RBA new owner-occupier variable rate, against median weekly household income (ABS Census 2021). Stress bands follow the 30% / 45%-of-income thresholds used in ANZ-CoreLogic and AIHW reporting. Rent vs buy compares that repayment with the suburb's median advertised rent; it excludes rates, insurance, maintenance and deposit opportunity cost.
Alternatives are similar-priced suburbs (0.7–1.4x this suburb's median) in other council areas that exceed it on the named metric. Indicative — not financial advice.
This suburb 11.8x · WA median 9.4x — less affordable than the WA typical
Nationally · more affordable to buy than 41% of AU suburbs
This suburb 55% · WA median 17%
Nationally · lighter rent burden than 0% of AU suburbs
Owners with a mortgage repay a median of $1,600/mo, while renters pay about $2,600/mo — renting runs $1,000/mo higher on these medians.
Serviceability line: a household needs about $2,463/wk to hold a new loan on the median house at 30% of income (20% deposit, 30-year P&I, current RBA rate).
At the median asking rent, about 70% of households here would spend more than 30% of income on rent (rent stress line: $2,000/wk income).
Getting to work: 78% drive, 2% public transport, 8% walk or cycle, 7% worked from home (2021 Census, taken during COVID-era work-from-home arrangements).
Top 72% most liveable of 4,565Australian suburbs.
Bar = this suburb's percentile · tick = typical (median) peer
Suburb-level access-density index (not an address-level walk-time score), normalised within Australian suburbs. Method based on the Urban Liveability Index (Higgs et al. 2019) and Walk Score — three equal-weighted domains combined with an imbalance penalty.
Estimated short-let income is 0.6× the $31,200/yr a long-term let would earn at the median rent — before management fees, cleaning, vacancy beyond the occupancy model, and short-stay regulation.
Active Airbnb listings point-mapped to this suburb from Inside Airbnb (CC BY 4.0). Occupancy and revenue are estimates from Inside Airbnb's San Francisco model (review-rate proxy, minimum-stay assumption, occupancy capped at 70%) — they are gross, indicative, and not a guarantee of returns. Short-stay letting is subject to state and local regulation.
ABS population projection (2022 base) for the Irwin SA2 statistical area — the finest official projection grain available; suburb-level projections do not exist.
Dongara (postcode 6525) is a close-knit residential community in Western Australia within the Irwin local government area. The area has roughly 1,393 residents and a mature demographic, with a median age of 51. Households earn a median income of $57K per year, with an average household size of 2.3 people. Recent annual estimates show population movement staying broadly stable across the broader catchment, with population growth running at +0.5% year-on-year at the LGA level. WA employment has moved +2.4% year-on-year in the official ABS Labour Force trend series, which provides the broader jobs backdrop for this suburb. WA also had 24 Commonwealth-backed major projects under construction, 12 underway, and 12 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 technicians & trades, labourers, professionals. Employment in the area leans toward retail trade and mining. The top ancestries reported are Australian, English, Scottish.
Median house prices in Dongara stand at $668,000, having jumped by 24.8% over the last twelve months. The current median weekly rent is $600. This gives a gross rental yield of approximately 4.7%. The median monthly mortgage repayment is $1,600.
Dongara is served by 1 school, including 1 combined. The average ICSEA score is 945, which is below the national average of 1,000. Public transport access includes 2 bus stops.
From an investment perspective, Dongara shows a gross rental yield of approximately 4.7%, rated as moderate yield. Property prices sit below the state median ($668K/$1.0M), which can point to relative value. The price-to-income ratio of 11.8x is considered stretched. House prices have moved +24.8% year-on-year. Population growth of +0.5% year-on-year points to stable demand fundamentals. Building approvals have changed +0% year-on-year, indicating steady development activity.
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Dongara carries enough direct local evidence for a first-pass decision.
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Schools, transport, and hospitals are useful as presence signals, but they still have different source cadences.
Dongara is in the Irwin Local Government Area, WA, postcode 6525. Council-level context for Irwin LGA (suburb mix, population, rent, and price coverage) is available on the QuickProperty LGA page.
The current median house price in Dongara, WA is $668K, based on the latest available sales data from state Valuers General offices and ABS Data by Region.
The median weekly rent in Dongara is $600/wk, based on the current market rent dataset. The current rent signal is rent-led investor candidate.
Rent-led investor candidate: Gross rent yield screens at about 4.7%. Use this as a suburb screening signal before comparing candidates or modelling a purchase; the matching rent ranking can provide broader market context.
QuickProperty's investment signals for Dongara show: Moderate Yield, Below Median, Stretched. These are computed from price, rent, income, and population data — not an opaque score.
Property prices come from state Valuers General offices and ABS Data by Region. Demographics are from ABS Census 2021. School ICSEA scores are from ACARA. Crime statistics are from state police agencies. Transport data is sourced from GTFS feeds.
Property prices update quarterly. RBA macro indicators update with each deploy. Demographics are from Census 2021. School ICSEA scores are from ACARA 2025.