lightning ridge
New South Wales · Census 2021
$200k
+40.4% yr · median house · Dec 2025
Lightning Ridge is a bushland suburb of Walgett.
Median house price
People
Housing
Culture & community
- Dominant religion
- No religion · 36%
- Top language at home
- Serbian · 1%
- No religion
- 36%
- Born overseas
- 19%
- English only at home
- 88%
Local amenities
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).
Schools by sector
School sector & type: ACARA (Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority), School Location dataset.
Local council
- Council (LGA)
- Walgett
- Council population
- 5,500
- Council area
- 22,308 km²
- Density
- 0/km²
- Federal grants
- $9.69M/yr (2025-26)
- Grants per resident
- $1,761/yr
Council boundary: ABS ASGS LGA 2024. Federal grants: Financial Assistance Grants, Dept of Infrastructure. All CC BY 4.0.
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
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.
Similar suburbs
Closest demographic & amenity profile, nationally.