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Suburb profile ·Gnowangerup LGA · WA ·6336

Mills Lake WA 6336

Mills Lake is in Gnowangerup LGA, WA, postcode 6336, with population 39.

Limited data

Thin-context

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What to check

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Median house
No local house series
Median rent
No market rent dataset
Gross yield
Need rent + price
Population
1,295
1K via Gnowangerup LGA · SAL undercount
Schools
No matched school data
Solar
62
1 added 12mo · 0MW

Price history

No price history available

Price series isn't recorded for this suburb. Census housing data is shown instead.

Median mortgage · mth$8,500
Median rent · wk

Household income

$84K household · yr-1.3% vs WA suburb median
Personal
$59K
Family
$110K
Household
$84K

Full data detail

Mills Lake WA — Property Data and Demographics

Mills Lake (postcode 6336) is a quiet locality in Western Australia within the Gnowangerup local government area. The area has roughly 39 residents and a settled, mature resident base, with a median age of 45. Households earn a median income of $84K per year, with an average household size of 2.2 people. Recent annual estimates show population movement staying broadly stable across the broader catchment, with population growth running at +1.3% year-on-year at the LGA level. WA employment has moved +1.1% year-on-year in the official Jobs and Skills Australia NERO series, which provides the broader jobs backdrop for this suburb. WA also had 31 Commonwealth-backed major projects under construction, 7 underway, and 16 in planning as at 2 October 2024, which is useful as a broader delivery backdrop rather than a suburb-specific project count. The most common occupations are managers, professionals. Employment in the area leans toward agriculture and education. The top ancestries reported are Australian, English, Scottish.

The median monthly mortgage repayment is $8,500.

From an investment perspective, Population growth of +1.3% year-on-year points to stable demand fundamentals. Building approvals have changed +0% year-on-year, indicating steady development activity.

Market & money
Investment signalsHeuristics
Pop. Growth+1.3%· Stable
Development+0%· Steady
InvestmentWA
Mortgage · mth$8,500
Rent · wk(Census)
Population growth · Gnowangerup LGAABS ERP
Population (2025)1,295
5-year growth+0.7% CAGR
YoY change+1.3%
20012025
Development · Gnowangerup LGAABS Approvals
Approvals (2026)2
Houses2
YoY change+0%
Employment · Gnowangerup LGASALM
Unemployment (Dec-25)1.5%
YoY change+0.2pp
Mar-20Dec-25
Property investors · Postcode 6336ATO
Negatively geared16 (7.4% of filers)
Avg rental loss$2,223/yr
Landlords (rental income)31
Reported capital gains19
People & prosperity
DemographicsCensus 21
Population39
Median age45
Household size2.2
HH income · wk$1,624
Personal income · wk$1,125
Persons / bedroom0.6
SEIFA indexABS
Advantage (IRSAD)4/10
Education (IEO)5/10
Economic (IER)3/10
Disadvantage (IRSD)4/10
Top occupationsCensus
Top industriesCensus
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Sources & freshness
Thin evidence

Mills Lake is a thin local read rather than a complete suburb verdict.

QuickProperty mixes release files, Census baselines, and matched local services on this page. Read the status panel before treating every metric as equally fresh.

PRICE POSTURE
Prices come from release-based suburb series.

Official annual SA2 price series matched to suburb pages as fallback coverage

RENT POSTURE
No local rent source is linked yet.

Treat the rent field as missing until a market or plausible Census rent value is linked.

SERVICE POSTURE
Service coverage is matched locally, not inferred nationally.

Schools, transport, and hospitals are useful as presence signals, but they still have different source cadences.

Data status
Property prices
ABS Data by Region · Official annual SA2 price series matched to suburb pages as fallback coverage
medium stability · manual file · snapshot · release-based
Missing
Market rent
ABS Census 2021 · No market rent source linked
stable source · manual file · snapshot · census-cycle
Missing
Crime
State crime dataset · No linked local crime series
Missing
Schools
ACARA 2025 · No local school matches exposed
stable source · automated · every update · annual
Missing
Hospitals
AIHW · No linked local hospital coverage
medium stability · manual file · snapshot · mixed
Missing
Transport
GTFS feeds · No matched local transport stops
medium stability · manual file · snapshot · mixed
Missing
Population growth
ABS ERP · 2025 · Annual estimate series
stable source · automated · every update · annual
Available
Building approvals
ABS Building Approvals · 2026 · Annual release series
stable source · automated · every update · monthly
Available
Available means a direct local dataset is linked. Verify means coverage exists but freshness or precision is weaker, such as ABS price fallback, Census rent fallback, or low-confidence hospital matching.
Sparse locality note

This page stays indexable because Mills Lake 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.

WHY IT LOOKS LIGHTER
This is a real locality, but it has a very small Census footprint.

Small-population localities can still be worth checking, but rankings, comparisons, and broad suburb assumptions become noisier faster.

WHAT IS MISSING
Coverage is lighter across school matches, hospital coverage, transport stops, and crime coverage.

Coverage is thinner on school matches, hospital coverage, transport stops, and crime coverage; lean less on this one page and confirm those gaps elsewhere.

BEST NEXT STEP
Use this page as a location clue, not a standalone investment verdict.

Lean on nearby suburbs, rankings, and the state hub for stronger comparables before treating this as a shortlist call.

Page status
INDEXED WITH LIGHTER COVERAGE

This page remains visible, but it should be read as a locality brief rather than a full-confidence suburb profile.

HOW TO READ THIS PAGE

Read it as a direction-setter rather than a final answer: frame the locality, then verify with compare, stronger nearby suburbs, and the state hub.

Stronger nearby reads

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Mills Lake FAQ

Common questions
  1. What LGA is Mills Lake in?

    Mills Lake is in the Gnowangerup Local Government Area, WA, postcode 6336. Council-level context for Gnowangerup LGA (suburb mix, population, rent, and price coverage) is available on the QuickProperty LGA page.

  2. Is Mills Lake a good investment?

    QuickProperty's investment signals for Mills Lake show: Stable, Steady. These are computed from price, rent, income, and population data — not an opaque score.

  3. Where does QuickProperty get its data for Mills Lake?

    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.

  4. How often is the Mills Lake data updated?

    Property prices update quarterly. RBA macro indicators update with each deploy. Demographics are from Census 2021. School ICSEA scores are from ACARA 2025.