Blayney
7,831 residents (ABS estimated resident population, 30 June 2025) across 1,525 km², 18 suburbs. Council website: blayney.nsw.gov.au.
Council series run to July 2026.
Population
7,831
ABS estimated resident population, 30 June 2025 · +0.8% in a year
Density
5.1/km²
1,525 km² · ERP 2025 over the ABS 2024 boundary
Council-wide house median
$540k
Established-house transfers across the whole council, FY 2023-24 (ABS)
Federal grants per resident
$496
Financial Assistance Grant 2025-26 over ERP 2025
Dwelling approvals
6.5 per 1,000
Residents, 12 months to July 2026 (ABS Building Approvals)
Advantage decile
6 of 10
SEIFA 2021 IRSAD, national (10 = most advantaged)
Suburbs
18
Where it holds most residents (ABS mesh-block allocation)
Trends
Council-level series. Each chart names its source and period.
People and housing
Council-wide figures from the ABS Census of 2021 and SEIFA 2021 (national deciles, 10 = most advantaged).
- Median age
- 43
- Median household income
- $1,547/week
- Median rent
- $270/week
- Median mortgage repayment
- $1,517/month
- Households renting
- 21.7%
- Average household
- 2.5 people
- Advantage and disadvantage (IRSAD)
- decile 6 of 10
- Disadvantage (IRSD)
- decile 6 of 10
Suburbs
18 suburbs where Blayney holds most residents, plus 1 it shares with a neighbouring council (share of residents shown). Population is Census 2021 for the whole suburb. A median here is the suburb’s own Valuer-General median — suburbs without one are blank, never filled with the council figure.
| Suburb | Population | In this council | Median house (VG) | Flood / bushfire | IRSAD |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blayney | 3,448 | All | $575kDec 2025 | – / 3% | 2 |
| Millthorpe | 1,347 | 95% | $723kDec 2025 | – / 16% | 8 |
| Forest Reefs | 537 | All | $1.2MDec 2025 | – / 11% | 10 |
| Lyndhurst (Blayney - NSW) | 359 | All | $660kDec 2025 | – / 5% | 2 |
| Mandurama | 345 | 93% | $260kDec 2025 | – / 6% | 4 |
| Carcoar | 271 | All | $398kDec 2025 | – / 4% | 6 |
| Neville | 229 | 93% | $397kDec 2025 | – / 57% | 5 |
| Newbridge (NSW) | 223 | All | $330kDec 2025 | – / 12% | 6 |
| Barry (Blayney - NSW) | 153 | All | $660kDec 2025 | – / <1% | 7 |
| Kings Plains (Blayney - NSW) | 121 | All | – / 20% | 6 | |
| Browns Creek | 120 | All | – / 2% | 9 | |
| Hobbys Yards | 89 | All | – / 7% | 7 | |
| Panuara | 86 | All | – / 5% | 9 | |
| Garland | 75 | All | – / 18% | 4 | |
| Tallwood | 67 | All | – / 0% | 9 | |
| Caloola | 62 | 7% | 0% / 91% | 7 | |
| Errowanbang | 52 | All | – / 3% | 9 | |
| Burnt Yards | 39 | All | – / 5% | 9 | |
| Moorilda | 38 | All | – / 0% | 6 |
Hazards
Share of each member suburb's land inside the mapped layer, averaged across the council weighted by the residents each suburb contributes. Only suburbs a source covers count; the rest are left out, not counted as zero.
Flood planning land
0%
Over 1 of 19 member suburbs (the rest are not mapped)
Show the layer on the map →Suburb prices
Across the 9 member suburbs with their own Valuer-General median (unweighted; each suburb's latest figure, periods ending Dec 2025).
- Lowest suburb median
- $260k
- Median of suburb medians
- $575k
- Highest suburb median
- $1.2M
Recorded crime
Offences per 100,000 residents over the 1 member suburbs the source covers, financial year ending 2025. Small suburbs and unreliable rates are excluded.
- Break and enter
- 677
- per 100k · NSW 2025
- Motor vehicle theft
- 217
- per 100k · NSW 2025
- property_damage
- 1,238
- per 100k · NSW 2025
- Violent crime
- 3,401
- per 100k · NSW 2025
Representation
Federal electorates and state districts covering the council, by share of the residents its suburbs contribute (each suburb counts once, for the seat containing a representative interior point).
Federal electorates
- Calare · Andrew GEE (IND)97%
- Riverina · Michael McCORMACK (NP)3%
State districts
- Bathurst · Paul Toole (NAT)97%
- Cootamundra · Steph Cooke (NAT)3%
Neighbouring councils
Councils in the same state whose suburbs share a boundary with this one's, and councils it splits a suburb with.
Compare it with every New South Wales council on the council map or the New South Wales council list.
Boundaries: ABS ASGS Edition 3, LGA 2024 boundaries; suburbs allocated by 2021 mesh block, weighted by Census 2021 residents. Population: ABS estimated resident population 2025. Census 2021 and SEIFA 2021: ABS. Council-wide medians: ABS Data by Region. Approvals: ABS Building Approvals. Grants: Financial Assistance Grants, Dept of Infrastructure. Suburb prices: state Valuer-General. Flood and bushfire: state planning layers. Observed water: Geoscience Australia DEA Water Observations. Crime: state police statistics. Website and identity: Wikidata (CC0). ABS, Dept of Infrastructure and state government data CC BY 4.0. Council facts loaded 2026-09-24.