Free market report · Data to July 2026

Southern Grampians property market

Southern Grampians 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 Southern Grampians 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.

-8% to +18%

Modelled 12-month price range

0.0%

Modelled 12-month rent change

Units · cycle position

Peak

The unit 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.

-14% to +22%

Modelled 12-month price range

0.0%

Modelled 12-month rent change

The clock measures growth momentum, not price. Peak means growing fastest, not about to fall. See Southern Grampians on the clock.

The people

Who lives in Southern Grampians.

Population · ABS estimates

16,483

People (2025)

-0.0%

Growth per year, last 5 years

Population has been shrinking. That is the single biggest caution flag in this report.

Households · Census 2021

47

Median age

$1,261

Median household income per week

75% own or are paying off their home, 20% 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
53
FY25
33
FY26
40

28 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

7,807

Employed residents

2.2%

Unemployment (national 4.2%)

798 fewer residents are in work than five years ago (-9.3%). A shrinking job base is the thing to understand before anything else on this page.

Non-residential building approved · ABS

$16m

All sectors, FY26

$5m

Public sector (government projects)

YearGovernmentAll non-residential
FY24 $12m $30m
FY25 $5m $18m
FY26 $5m $16m

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 Southern Grampians.

We hold live snapshot data for one suburb in Southern Grampians. Click through for the full numbers.

Suburb Typical price Rent/wk Gross yield 1yr growth
Hamilton $480,741 $400 4.3% +10%
All 55 suburbs and localities in Southern Grampians

Balmoral · Bochara · Branxholme · Brit Brit · Buckley Swamp · Bulart · Byaduk · Byaduk North · Cavendish · Cherrypool · Clover Flat · Coleraine · Coojar · Croxton East · Culla · Dunkeld · Englefield · Gatum · Gazette · Glenisla · Glenthompson · Grampians · Gringegalgona · Gritjurk · Hamilton · Hensley Park · Hilgay · Karabeal · Konongwootong · Melville Forest · Mirranatwa · Mooralla · Morgiana · Mount Napier · Moutajup · Nareeb · Nareen · Penshurst · Pigeon Ponds · Rocklands · Strathkellar · Tabor · Tarrayoukyan · Tarrenlea · Tarrington · Vasey · Victoria Point · Victoria Valley · Wando Vale · Wannon · Warrayure · Woodhouse · Wootong Vale · Yatchaw · Yulecart

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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 Southern Grampians 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.

Data finds the area. It doesn't buy the house.

We narrow 15,000 suburbs to the top 5 for each client, then find the street and the property. If Southern Grampians is on your list, that's a conversation worth having early.

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