Forest Grove is in Augusta Margaret River LGA, WA, postcode 6286, with population 253.
The page is still useful for local context, but the evidence stack is too thin for a clean one-page call. Use nearby stronger suburbs or compare mode before treating it as a serious shortlist decision.
Population movement supports a growth-led read.
The page is thin enough that nearby alternatives should be checked before shortlisting. Small local population makes the signal set more fragile.
Price series isn't recorded for this suburb. Census housing data is shown instead.
54% of homes here are owner-occupied and 31% rented, with 3% of landlords negatively geared.
A balanced 54% owner-occupier / 31% renter mix.
ABS Census 2021 tenure (G37), ATO postcode rental statistics, and QuickProperty's investor-exposure index. Owner-occupied = owned outright + with a mortgage.
This suburb 67% · WA median 17%
Nationally · lighter rent burden than 0% of AU suburbs
Owners with a mortgage repay a median of $1,814/mo, while renters pay about $3,467/mo — renting runs $1,653/mo higher on these medians.
At the median asking rent, about 90% of households here would spend more than 30% of income on rent (rent stress line: $2,667/wk income).
Getting to work: 61% drive, 0% public transport, 5% walk or cycle, 29% worked from home (2021 Census, taken during COVID-era work-from-home arrangements).
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Estimated short-let income is 0.6× the $41,600/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 Augusta SA2 statistical area — the finest official projection grain available; suburb-level projections do not exist.
Forest Grove is a small, quiet locality in Western Australia within the Augusta Margaret River local government area (postcode 6286). It is home to about 253 residents, with a mature demographic and a median age of 52. Households earn a median income of $62K per year, with an average household size of 2.1 people. Recent annual estimates show population movement into the broader catchment, with population growth running at +3.5% year-on-year at the LGA level. WA employment has moved +1.9% 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 managers, technicians & trades, labourers. Employment in the area leans toward agriculture and manufacturing. The top ancestries reported are English, Australian, Irish.
The current median weekly rent is $800. The median monthly mortgage repayment is $1,814.
Forest Grove is served by 1 school, including 1 primary. The average ICSEA score is 1057, which is above the national average of 1,000.
On the investment side, Population growth of +3.5% year-on-year points to strong growth demand fundamentals. Building approvals have changed +0% year-on-year, indicating steady development activity.
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Forest Grove is usable as a read, though it still needs cross-checking.
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Use current rent as a starting signal, not as a fixed underwriting truth.
Schools, transport, and hospitals are useful as presence signals, but they still have different source cadences.
This page stays indexable because Forest Grove is a real locality with enough context to be directionally useful. The tradeoff is that coverage is lighter than a stronger suburb profile, so the read should stay cautious.
Treat this as a directional locality brief first, then verify the suburb story against stronger nearby markets or the state hub.
Coverage is thinner on hospital coverage, transport stops, and crime coverage; lean less on this one page and confirm those gaps elsewhere.
Use it for context first, then move to compare, the state hub, or a larger nearby suburb before calling it a full market decision.
This page remains visible, but it should be read as a locality brief rather than a full-confidence suburb profile.
This page is useful for direction-setting, not closure. Use it to frame the locality, then confirm the story with compare, stronger nearby suburbs, and the state hub.
If Forest Grove feels too thin on its own, use these nearby suburbs as stronger local reads before making a shortlist decision.
pop same · adds house price coverage · rent -$505/wk
Better covered alternative: use this as the stronger reference point before judging the thin page.
pop +100 · adds house price coverage · rent -$500/wk
Better covered alternative: use this as the stronger reference point before judging the thin page.
Forest Grove is in the Augusta Margaret River Local Government Area, WA, postcode 6286. Council-level context for Augusta Margaret River LGA (suburb mix, population, rent, and price coverage) is available on the QuickProperty LGA page.
The median weekly rent in Forest Grove is $800/wk, based on the current market rent dataset. The current rent signal is rent-pressure candidate.
Rent-pressure candidate: Forest Grove rents screen above the local benchmark. 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 Forest Grove show: Strong Growth, Steady. 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.