Free market report · Data to July 2026
Lithgow property market
Lithgow is one of the 453 council areas we track on the Australian property clock. This page is the plain-numbers read: where it sits in the cycle, who lives there, what's being built, and the suburbs inside it.
Houses · cycle position
Peak
The Lithgow house market is growing at its fastest pace in the current cycle. That is a momentum reading, not a crash call: markets can sit at peak growth for a long time before easing.
-3% to +12%
Modelled 12-month price range
+4.3%
Modelled 12-month rent change
Units · cycle position
Not enough unit sales in Lithgow for a reliable cycle reading. That's common outside the cities, and honest beats guessed.
The clock measures growth momentum, not price. Peak means growing fastest, not about to fall. See Lithgow on the clock.
The people
Who lives in Lithgow.
Population · ABS estimates
20,693
People (2025)
-0.4%
Growth per year, last 5 years
Population has been shrinking. That is the single biggest caution flag in this report.
Households · Census 2021
46
Median age
$1,196
Median household income per week
71% own or are paying off their home, 24% rent. An owner-occupier market at heart, which tends to steady prices through the cycle.
New supply
What's being approved to build.
Building approvals are tomorrow's supply. A market where approvals are falling while population grows is a market where pressure builds. The reverse deserves caution.
Dwellings approved · ABS
47 of the latest year's approvals were houses. Approvals are roughly steady year to year.
Jobs and investment
Who's working, and what's being spent.
Jobs pay mortgages and rents. Government and commercial building spend is where future jobs come from: schools, hospitals, shops and factories all get approved before they get built.
Jobs · SALM, March 2026
9,639
Employed residents
4.9%
Unemployment (national 4.2%)
456 fewer residents are in work than five years ago (-4.5%). A shrinking job base is the thing to understand before anything else on this page.
Non-residential building approved · ABS
$15m
All sectors, FY26
$7m
Public sector (government projects)
| Year | Government | All non-residential |
|---|---|---|
| FY24 | $655k | $10m |
| FY25 | $436k | $11m |
| FY26 | $7m | $15m |
Public building spend here is trending up. Governments build where they expect people. For the named projects behind these numbers, ask for the full report below.
Inside the LGA
The suburbs of Lithgow.
We hold live snapshot data for one suburb in Lithgow. Click through for the full numbers.
| Suburb | Typical price | Rent/wk | Gross yield | 1yr growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lithgow | $606,182 | $466 | 4.0% | +10% |
All 56 suburbs and localities in Lithgow
Ben Bullen · Blackmans Flat · Bogee · Bowenfels · Brogans Creek · Capertee · Clarence · Cobar Park · Corney Town · Cullen Bullen · Dargan · Dark Corner · Doctors Gap · Dunville Loop · Ganbenang · Glen Alice · Glen Davis · Good Forest · Hampton · Hartley · Hartley Vale · Hassans Walls · Hermitage Flat · Kanimbla · Lidsdale · Lithgow · Little Hartley · Littleton · Lowther · Marrangaroo · McKellars Park · Morts Estate · Mount Lambie · Mount Marsden · Newnes · Newnes Plateau · Oakey Park · Palmers Oaky · Portland · Pottery Estate · Round Swamp · Rydal · Sheedys Gully · Sodwalls · South Bowenfels · South Littleton · State Mine Gully · Tarana · Upper Nile · Upper Turon · Vale Of Clwydd · Wallerawang · Wirraba · Wolgan Valley · Wollangambe · Wollemi
Free · Pulled together by hand
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This page is the public data. The full report is the licensed feed: 10 years of prices, rents and vacancy over time, days on market, demand, and the supply pipeline, for Lithgow or any suburb in it. Same data we run for clients. I pull it and email it through, usually within a business day. No charge, and no 14-part email sequence after it.
General information only, not financial or investment advice. Cycle positions and projections are modelled LGA-level figures to July 2026 (licensed market analytics). Population and approvals are ABS estimates; employment is SALM smoothed data; income, age and tenure are Census 2021. None of it can see street quality, flood maps, zoning or the contract, which is where deals are actually won and lost. Get advice on your own situation before acting.
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