Broken Hill (NSW 2880): property prices, streets & suburb profile

Broken Hill house and unit prices

The median Broken Hill house sold for $220,000 across the last 24 months.

• The headline growth figure uses a repeat-sales index of all dwellings (the same homes resold), which removes mix-of-what-sold noise; the tiles compare 12-month medians per dwelling type, so the two can differ slightly.
• Unit medians are yearly because strata volumes are low; treat them as indicative.
• Quarters with fewer than three house sales are left off the chart; one sale does not make a market median.

Broken Hill street by street

Across 119 streets with enough house sales to compare, five-year medians on actively trading streets run from $55,000 on Chettle Street to $345,000 on Wyman Street.

• A street needs at least 5 sales of a type in 10 years to get a median, so streets quieter than that are left out entirely. Rankings use house sales only, so unit-heavy streets and residential parks are not mislabelled as cheap streets.
• The highlight cards quote each street's last-5-years median (at least 5 sales in that window), so they reflect prices a buyer could pay now; the table shows the full 10-year view.
• Prices are as-paid and not inflation-adjusted.

What buyers paid in Broken Hill

Half of the 1187 house sales in the last 24 months landed between $150,000 and $326,000.

• House sales only, 24 months.
• Chart covers $50,000 to $550,000: 81 of the 1,187 house sales fall outside it (the cheapest and dearest few) and are left out so a handful of outliers cannot distort the shape.

Rent in Broken Hill by bedrooms

A 3-bedroom house rents for a median $380/wk.

• From NSW rental bond lodgements for postcode 2880 (covers neighbouring suburbs too), 12 months to July 2026.
• Bands with fewer than 10 bonds are hidden.
• Biggest 12-month move: 1-bedroom houses +31.0% year on year.

Who lives in Broken Hill

Broken Hill has a median age of 44 and a median household income of $1,176 a week, and 72.2% of homes are owner-occupied.

• Figures labelled Broken Hill are for the suburb boundary itself (ABS 2021 Census). Anything labelled SA2 or postcode covers a wider area: SA2 "Broken Hill" and postcode 2880 both extend beyond Broken Hill.
• SEIFA decile 1 is the lowest tenth of Australian areas on that index and 10 the highest. The four indices measure different things and often disagree, which is why all four are shown: a suburb can rank high on education and occupation while ranking mid on economic resources.

Bushfire, flood and planning in Broken Hill

0.6% of Broken Hill properties sit in a mapped bushfire-prone area; no flood mapping is available in our dataset for this suburb.

• Bushfire-prone land is the NSW RFS certified map; being inside it triggers extra building requirements, not a prediction of fire.
• Absence of flood mapping in our dataset is NOT evidence a property cannot flood: always order a council s10.7 certificate before buying.

Schools serving Broken Hill

Most Broken Hill homes fall in the Broken Hill Public School intake zone.

• ICSEA is ACARA's socio-educational index (average 1000). It describes the family backgrounds of the students enrolled, NOT how well a school teaches: a lower ICSEA means a less advantaged intake, not a worse school.
• Percentiles are ACARA's own national ranking, so the Australia bar is a published figure rather than our arithmetic. Each area shows the median of the mainstream schools sitting inside it; special schools are listed in the table but excluded from the medians.
• Catchments are NSW Department of Education intake zones; always confirm an address with the school.

Crime and safety around Broken Hill

Break-ins, car theft and malicious damage run at 3,840 per 100,000 residents in postcode 2880, 155.7% above the NSW rate of 1,502.

• Counts are BOCSAR recorded incidents for January 2025 to December 2025 at LGA and postcode grain: both cover several suburbs, so they include neighbours of Broken Hill.
• Rates divide incidents by resident population (ABS 2021 Census), so they are comparable between areas in a way raw counts are not. Every tier uses the same offences and the same 12 months for January 2025 to December 2025.
• Two limits worth knowing: the rate counts residents only, so a postcode with a town centre, nightlife strip or shopping precinct carries crime generated by visitors against a small resident denominator and reads high; and the population is the 2021 Census, so a suburb that has grown fast since then reads high too.

Suburbs near Broken Hill

Broken Hill's median house price of $220,000 is the lowest of the 3 Riverina & Murray suburbs we cover.

• Griffith 2680

  $630,000 median house price

• Lavington 2641

  $595,000 median house price

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Broken Hill: common questions

What is the median house price in Broken Hill?

$220,000, based on 1,187 house sales over the 24 months to August 2026 (NSW Valuer General records).

What are the most and least expensive streets in Broken Hill?

Among streets with enough sales in the last five years, Wyman Street has the highest house median at $345,000 (62 sales); Chettle Street has the lowest at $55,000 (5 sales).

What does it cost to rent in Broken Hill?

The median 3-bedroom house in postcode 2880 rents for $380/wk, from 233 bonds lodged in the last 12 months.

Which public schools serve Broken Hill?

Broken Hill Public School (public primary catchment (22% of homes)); Broken Hill Nps (public primary catchment (22% of homes)); Willyama High School (public secondary catchment (54% of homes)); Broken Hill High School (public secondary catchment (46% of homes)).

Is Broken Hill affected by bushfire or flood risk?

0.6% of properties sit in the NSW RFS bushfire-prone land map. No flood mapping is available in our dataset for this suburb; that is not evidence properties cannot flood; check a council s10.7 certificate.

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