IRSAD
Relative Socio-economic Advantage and Disadvantage
Score 893
Measures relative socio-economic advantage and disadvantage.
Within AustraliaDecile 2 of 10
Within New South WalesDecile 1 of 10
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Housing
Broken Hill
New South Wales · Census 2021
$220k+10.0% yrmedian house · Dec 2025
Broken Hill is an inner-city suburb of Broken Hill.
Median house price
$220k2nd pctile
of 2,365 priced NSW suburbs
Household income
$1,176/wk23rd pctile
of 4,352 NSW suburbs
Amenity score
100/10098th pctile
of 2,112 rated NSW suburbs
Median house price
Rolling median of settled transfers, state Valuer-General open data (CC BY 4.0). Median of New South Wales suburb medians: $1.0M.
How it compares
Median house price2nd percentile
<$160k2,365 priced suburbs$5.5M+
Household income / wk23rd percentile
<$564ABS Census 2021$3,833+
Median house price-85% vs Greater Sydney · -73% vs Rest of NSW
SydneyRest of state
Greater Sydney $1.49M · Rest of NSW $825kBroken Hill $220k
Percentiles rank this suburb against New South Wales suburbs that carry the metric — never across states, and never against suburbs where it is missing. Price references are ABS median established-house transfer prices for the Mar 2026 quarter (CC BY 4.0); the suburb figure is a Valuer-General median over a different window, so read the gap as indicative. Income references are the Census 2021 median of the middle suburb in New South Wales and nationally, not a household-weighted median.
People & housing
Population
17,706
Median age
44 yrs
Income / person / wk
$650
Household income / wk
$1,176
▼ 26% vs NSW
Median rent / wk
$220
Mortgage / month
$867
Who lives here
- Couples with children
- 19%
- −13 pts vs NSW
- Living alone
- 37%
- +12 pts vs NSW
- Unemployment
- 5%
- level with NSW
- In the labour force
- 52%
- −7 pts vs NSW
- Bachelor degree or higher
- 10%
- −17 pts vs NSW
- Earning $1–$499 a week
- 30%
- +7 pts vs NSW
- Earning $2,000+ a week
- 9%
- −5 pts vs NSW
Households for the family mix, residents aged 15+ for work, education and income; unemployment is a share of the labour force. NSW figures weight each suburb by its dwellings or residents. ABS Census 2021 (CC BY 4.0). Withheld for very small populations — under 100 residents, or under 50 dwellings, households or workers for the shares that count those.
Housing stock
7,345 occupied private dwellings
- Separate house 95%
- Flat or apartment 3%
- Semi, terrace & other 3%
NSW: 65% separate houses · 22% flats & apartments
- Owned outright 42%
- Mortgaged 30%
- Rented 24%
- Other & not stated 4%
NSW: 31% owned outright · 33% mortgaged · 33% rented
ABS Census 2021 (CC BY 4.0). Withheld for very small populations — under 100 residents, or under 50 dwellings, households or workers for the shares that count those.
Socio-economic profile
IRSD
Relative Socio-economic Disadvantage
Score 914
Measures relative socio-economic disadvantage only; a higher score means less disadvantage.
Within AustraliaDecile 2 of 10
Within New South WalesDecile 1 of 10
IER
Economic Resources
Score 920
Measures access to economic resources, including income, housing costs and assets.
Within AustraliaDecile 1 of 10
Within New South WalesDecile 1 of 10
IEO
Education and Occupation
Score 888
Measures relative education and occupation characteristics.
Within AustraliaDecile 2 of 10
Within New South WalesDecile 1 of 10
Scores are standardised across Australia to a mean of 1,000 and a standard deviation of 100. Deciles run from 1 (most disadvantaged) to 10 (least disadvantaged).
Source: ABS SEIFA 2021 (CC BY 4.0).
Terrain & hazard exposure
Median elevation
135 m
range 32–471 m
Land below 5 m
0%
0% below 2 m
Shares are the proportion of the suburb's land area. Land where Landsat saw water in at least 1% of clear passes since 1987, excluding permanent water and filtered by DEA's confidence layer. Satellites miss flood peaks, so this is a floor, not a risk estimate; dense high-rise cores can still register tower shadow as water. No flood map lodged in the NSW planning instruments for most of this suburb; most councils keep theirs in a development control plan. Designated for development control; a designation, not a prediction of fire behaviour. Elevation is orthometric height from a 30 m model; no hydrology or drainage is modelled.
Planning & zoning
The statewide zoning map covers only 1.3% of this suburb; the rest is planned under an instrument that map does not carry, so no zoning mix or heritage figure is given for it.
Planning instrument: Broken Hill Local Environmental Plan 2013. Zones are grouped into ten families so states compare; the council's own scheme is the authority for any one lot. Source: NSW EPI Land Zoning.
Local amenities
Schools
11
Supermarkets
7
Pubs & bars
19
Parks
25
Libraries
1
GP clinics
8
Pharmacies
5
Hospitals
1
Nearest supermarket
40.7 km
Nearest train
41.0 km
Nearest hospital
42.5 km
Distance to coast
339 km
Grocery mix: 1 Coles · 1 Woolworths · 1 IGA. Amenity counts via © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL) & Geoscience Australia HealthDirect (CC BY 4.0). Distance to coast derived from ABS state boundaries (CC BY 4.0).
Culture & community
- Dominant religion
- No religion · 49%
- Top language at home
- Filipino · 0%
- No religion
- 49%
- Born overseas
- 6%
- English only at home
- 96%
Schools by sector
- Government / Catholic / Indep.
- 9 / 1 / 0
- Primary / Secondary
- 8 / 2
- Nearest secondary
- 41.1 km
School sector & type: ACARA (Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority), School Location dataset.
Local council
- Council (LGA)
- Broken Hill
- Population
- 17,515 (2025) · -0.5% in a year
- Area / density
- 170 km² · 103/km²
- Council medians (2021)
- age 44 · $1,173/wk household income · $220/wk rent
- Council-wide house median (2023-24)
- $190k
- Federal grants
- $7.30M in 2025-26 · $417/resident
- Website
- brokenhill.nsw.gov.au/Home
Council boundaries and the suburb split: ABS ASGS LGA 2024, allocated by 2021 mesh block and weighted by Census 2021 residents. Population: ABS Estimated Resident Population 2025. Medians: ABS Census 2021. House median: ABS Data by Region, established-house transfers across the whole council, financial year 2023-24. Federal grants: Financial Assistance Grants, Dept of Infrastructure. ABS and Dept of Infrastructure data CC BY 4.0; council website from Wikidata (CC0).
Representation
- Federal division
- Parkes
- Federal MP
- Jamie Chaffey (NP)
- Two-party-preferred
- Coalition 63% 2PP
- State electorate
- Barwon
- State MP
- Roy Butler (IND)
Crime & safety
Break-ins
1,781/100k
96th percentile
Car theft
362/100k
87th percentile
Property damage
2,843/100k
93rd percentile
Violent crime
6,483/100k
95th percentile
FY2024–25, 2-yr pooled. Recorded incidents: NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research (BOCSAR); adjusted to the ABS Crime Victimisation Survey; ABS ERP population denominator. All CC BY 4.0. Percentile is the population-weighted rank among suburbs in the same state — higher means more reported crime. Ranks are never compared across states, because each police force counts offences under its own rules.
Comparable suburbs
Closest by median house price across NSW.
Similar suburbs
Closest demographic & amenity profile, nationally.
Sources: ABS ASGS boundaries (CC BY 4.0); ABS Census 2021 (CC BY 4.0); New South Wales Valuer-General settled transfers (CC BY 4.0); ACARA School Locations (CC BY 4.0); © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL); Australian Electoral Commission (CC BY 4.0); Geoscience Australia 1 Second DEM-S (CC BY 4.0); DEA Water Observations Statistics, Geoscience Australia (CC BY 4.0); NSW Environmental Planning Instrument — Flood, NSW Department of Planning (CC BY 4.0); NSW Bush Fire Prone Land, NSW Rural Fire Service (CC BY 4.0); NSW Environmental Planning Instrument — Land Zoning, NSW Department of Planning (CC BY); Wikipedia state-member tables (CC BY-SA 4.0). Not financial advice.