Free market report · Data to July 2026

Mid-Western Regional property market

Mid-Western Regional 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 Mid-Western Regional 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.

-10% to +19%

Modelled 12-month price range

+4.1%

Modelled 12-month rent change

Units · cycle position

Growth pause

The unit market is in a growth pause. Prices are holding but momentum has flattened out, which is where patient buyers start paying attention.

-9% to +13%

Modelled 12-month price range

+6.7%

Modelled 12-month rent change

The clock measures growth momentum, not price. Peak means growing fastest, not about to fall. See Mid-Western Regional on the clock.

The people

Who lives in Mid-Western Regional.

Population · ABS estimates

26,472

People (2025)

+0.7%

Growth per year, last 5 years

Steady growth. Not a boom town, not going backwards.

Households · Census 2021

42

Median age

$1,486

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

FY24
193
FY25
182
FY26
133

111 of the latest year's approvals were houses. Approvals are trending down: new supply is thinning out.

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

13,441

Employed residents

3.3%

Unemployment (national 4.2%)

168 fewer residents are in work than five years ago (-1.2%). A shrinking job base is the thing to understand before anything else on this page.

Non-residential building approved · ABS

$24m

All sectors, FY26

$983k

Public sector (government projects)

YearGovernmentAll non-residential
FY24 $7m $34m
FY25 $874k $24m
FY26 $983k $24m

Public building spend has eased from its recent peak. Worth checking what was just completed versus what is next. For the named projects behind these numbers, ask for the full report below.

Inside the LGA

The suburbs of Mid-Western Regional.

All 107 suburbs and localities in Mid-Western Regional

Aarons Pass · Apple Tree Flat · Avisford · Bara · Barigan · Barneys Reef · Beryl · Birriwa · Bocoble · Bombira · Botobolar · Breakfast Creek · Buckaroo · Budden · Budgee Budgee · Bungaba · Burrundulla · Bylong · Caerleon · Camboon · Canadian Lead · Carcalgong · Carwell · Charbon · Clandulla · Coggan · Collingwood · Cooks Gap · Cooyal · Cope · Coxs Creek · Coxs Crown · Cross Roads · Crudine · Cudgegong · Cullenbone · Cumbandry · Cumbo · Dabee · Dungeree · Erudgere · Eurunderee · Frog Rock · Galambine · Ginghi · Goolma · Grattai · Green Gully · Growee · Gulgong · Guntawang · Hargraves · Havilah · Hayes Gap · Home Rule · Ilford · Kains Flat · Kandos · Lee Creek · Linburn · Lue · Maitland Bar · Mebul · Menah · Meroo · Merotherie · Milroy · Mogo · Monivae · Moolarben · Mount Frome · Mount Knowles · Mudgee · Mullamuddy · Munghorn · Murrumbo · Nullo Mountain · Olinda · Piambong · Pinnacle Swamp · Putta Bucca · Pyangle · Pyramul · Queens Pinch · Riverlea · Running Stream · Rylstone · Spring Flat · St Fillans · Stony Creek · Stubbo · Tallawang · Tichular · Totnes Valley · Triamble · Turill · Two Mile Flat · Ulan · Upper Bylong · Upper Growee · Wilbetree · Wilpinjong · Windeyer · Wollar · Worlds End · Yarrabin · Yarrawonga

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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 Mid-Western Regional 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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