IRSAD
Relative Socio-economic Advantage and Disadvantage
Score 900
Measures relative socio-economic advantage and disadvantage.
Within AustraliaDecile 2 of 10
Within New South WalesDecile 1 of 10
For state-level context, explore the New South Wales economy.
Housing
Gladstone
New South Wales · Census 2021
$646k+40.4% yrmedian house · Dec 2024
Gladstone (NSW) is a leafy residential suburb of Kempsey.
Median house price
$646k20th pctile
of 2,365 priced NSW suburbs
Household income
$1,281/wk29th pctile
of 4,352 NSW suburbs
Amenity score
16/10058th 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 price20th percentile
<$160k2,365 priced suburbs$5.5M+
Household income / wk29th percentile
<$564ABS Census 2021$3,833+
Median house price-56% vs Greater Sydney · -22% vs Rest of NSW
SydneyRest of state
Greater Sydney $1.49M · Rest of NSW $825kGladstone (NSW) $646k
Household income / wk
NSW · AU
NSW median suburb $1,583 · AU median suburb $1,562Gladstone (NSW) $1,281
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
437
Median age
47 yrs
Income / person / wk
$577
Household income / wk
$1,281
▼ 19% vs NSW
Median rent / wk
$355
Mortgage / month
$1,437
Who lives here
- Couples with children
- 24%
- −9 pts vs NSW
- Living alone
- 25%
- level with NSW
- Unemployment
- 8%
- +3 pts vs NSW
- In the labour force
- 51%
- −7 pts vs NSW
- Bachelor degree or higher
- 12%
- −16 pts vs NSW
- Earning $1–$499 a week
- 33%
- +10 pts vs NSW
- Earning $2,000+ a week
- 5%
- −9 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
151 occupied private dwellings
- Separate house 100%
- Flat or apartment 0%
NSW: 65% separate houses · 22% flats & apartments
- Owned outright 49%
- Mortgaged 33%
- Rented 10%
- Other & not stated 8%
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 926
Measures relative socio-economic disadvantage only; a higher score means less disadvantage.
Within AustraliaDecile 2 of 10
Within New South WalesDecile 2 of 10
IER
Economic Resources
Score 985
Measures access to economic resources, including income, housing costs and assets.
Within AustraliaDecile 3 of 10
Within New South WalesDecile 3 of 10
IEO
Education and Occupation
Score 900
Measures relative education and occupation characteristics.
Within AustraliaDecile 2 of 10
Within New South WalesDecile 2 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
0 m
range 0–5 m
Land below 5 m
100%
98% 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
In a heritage area
1.4%
conservation area / Heritage Overlay
Show on map →Listed heritage places
20
items in the LEP heritage schedule
Planning instrument: Kempsey 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. Listed-place counts follow each state's own list, so they do not compare across states. Source: NSW EPI Land Zoning; NSW EPI Heritage.
Local amenities
Schools
1
Supermarkets
0
Pubs & bars
2
Parks
2
Libraries
0
GP clinics
0
Pharmacies
1
Hospitals
0
Nearest supermarket
13.1 km
Nearest train
13.9 km
Nearest hospital
14.5 km
Distance to coast
7.3 km
NBN
FIXED WIRELESS
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 · 38%
- Top language at home
- English only
- No religion
- 38%
- Born overseas
- 5%
- English only at home
- 100%
Schools by sector
- Government / Catholic / Indep.
- 1 / 0 / 0
- Primary / Secondary
- 1 / 0
- Nearest secondary
- 14.0 km
School sector & type: ACARA (Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority), School Location dataset.
Local council
- Council (LGA)
- Kempsey
- Population
- 31,950 (2025) · +0.4% in a year
- Area / density
- 3,376 km² · 9/km²
- Council medians (2021)
- age 48 · $1,085/wk household income · $300/wk rent
- Council-wide house median (2023-24)
- $590k
- Federal grants
- $8.69M in 2025-26 · $272/resident
- Website
- kempsey.nsw.gov.au
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
- Cowper
- Federal MP
- Pat Conaghan (NP)
- Two-party-preferred
- Coalition 59% 2PP
- State electorate
- Oxley
- State MP
- Michael Kemp (NAT)
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); NSW Environmental Planning Instrument — Heritage, NSW Department of Planning (CC BY); Wikipedia state-member tables (CC BY-SA 4.0). Not financial advice.