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Housing

Peel

New South Wales · Census 2021

$870kmedian house · Dec 2025

Peel is a bushland suburb of Bathurst.

Median house price
$870k38th pctile
of 2,365 priced NSW suburbs
Household income
$2,399/wk87th pctile
of 4,352 NSW suburbs
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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 price38th percentile
<$160k2,365 priced suburbs$5.5M+
Household income / wk87th percentile
<$564ABS Census 2021$3,833+
Median house price-41% vs Greater Sydney · +5% vs Rest of NSW
SydneyRest of state
Greater Sydney $1.49M · Rest of NSW $825kPeel $870k
Household income / wk
NSW · AU

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
256
Median age
41 yrs
Income / person / wk
$1,048
Household income / wk
$2,399
▲ 52% vs NSW
Median rent / wk
$410
Mortgage / month
$2,167

Who lives here

Couples with children
50%
+17 pts vs NSW
Living alone
15%
−10 pts vs NSW
Unemployment
3%
−2 pts vs NSW
In the labour force
73%
+15 pts vs NSW
Bachelor degree or higher
30%
+2 pts vs NSW
Earning $1–$499 a week
25%
+2 pts vs NSW
Earning $2,000+ a week
16%
+3 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

80 occupied private dwellings

Dwelling type
  • Separate house 100%
  • Flat or apartment 0%

NSW: 65% separate houses · 22% flats & apartments

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

IRSAD

Relative Socio-economic Advantage and Disadvantage

Score 1,051

Measures relative socio-economic advantage and disadvantage.

Within AustraliaDecile 9 of 10
Within New South WalesDecile 8 of 10

IRSD

Relative Socio-economic Disadvantage

Score 1,095

Measures relative socio-economic disadvantage only; a higher score means less disadvantage.

Within AustraliaDecile 10 of 10
Within New South WalesDecile 10 of 10

IER

Economic Resources

Score 1,108

Measures access to economic resources, including income, housing costs and assets.

Within AustraliaDecile 10 of 10
Within New South WalesDecile 9 of 10

IEO

Education and Occupation

Score 1,025

Measures relative education and occupation characteristics.

Within AustraliaDecile 8 of 10
Within New South WalesDecile 7 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
710 m
range 598–971 m
Land below 5 m
0%
0% below 2 m
Observed under water since 1987
0.2%
plus <0.1% permanent water
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Shares are the proportion of the suburb's land area; where part of a suburb is unmapped, only its mapped land counts, so the share is a floor. 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. A statutory planning-control boundary, not a flood extent, and it can lag the latest flood study. Only the councils that lodged a flood map in their planning instrument are covered; everywhere else is shown as no statutory layer, not as 0%. NSW councils have owned flood-map currency since July 2021, so the state layer may be older than a council's own study. 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

Zoning mix (share of the suburb's land)
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  • Rural97%
  • Conservation2.2%
  • Infrastructure & special purpose0.5%
Listed heritage places
7
items in the LEP heritage schedule

Planning instrument: Bathurst Regional Local Environmental Plan 2014. 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.

Culture & community

Dominant religion
Catholic · 34%
Top language at home
English only
No religion
30%
Born overseas
11%
English only at home
100%

Schools by sector

Nearest secondary
13.2 km

School sector & type: ACARA (Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority), School Location dataset.

Local council

Council (LGA)
Bathurst
Population
45,359 (2025) · +0.8% in a year
Area / density
3,818 km² · 12/km²
Council medians (2021)
age 38 · $1,585/wk household income · $320/wk rent
Council-wide house median (2023-24)
$675k
Federal grants
$8.52M in 2025-26 · $188/resident

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
Calare
Federal MP
Andrew Gee (IND)
Two-party-preferred
Coalition 62% 2PP
State electorate
Bathurst
State MP
Paul Toole (NAT)

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); 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.