Garthowen NSW 2345
Garthowen is in Tamworth Regional LGA, NSW, postcode 2345, with population 169.
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Schools, transport, and hospitals are useful as presence signals, but they still have different source cadences.
Garthowen depends on evidence that should be verified before a decision.
The page still has useful coverage, but Market rent should be treated as fallback or lower-precision evidence. Missing signals include Schools, Hospitals, and Population growth.
Verify fallback signals manually and compare against stronger nearby suburbs before treating this as a shortlist candidate.
Property prices, Crime, Transport
Market rent
Schools, Hospitals, Population growth, Building approvals
Garthowen currently reads as a thin-context candidate.
Recent price movement shows visible market momentum. Transport coverage adds a practical access signal. Evidence depth is verify-heavy, so the profile should be treated as provisional. The page is thin enough that nearby alternatives should be checked before shortlisting.
Use stronger nearby reads or rankings before treating this suburb as a shortlist candidate.
Recent price movement shows visible market momentum. Transport coverage adds a practical access signal. Higher SEIFA context supports a stronger local-quality read.
Evidence depth is verify-heavy, so the profile should be treated as provisional. The page is thin enough that nearby alternatives should be checked before shortlisting. Gross yield looks low for an income-first use case.
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Use as context
This page stays indexable because Garthowen is a real locality with enough context to be directionally useful. The tradeoff is that coverage is lighter than a stronger suburb profile, so the read should stay cautious.
Small-population localities can still be worth checking, but rankings, comparisons, and broad suburb assumptions become noisier faster.
The main gaps on this page are school matches, hospital coverage, population trend data, and building approvals. That narrows how much confidence you should place on a single-page read.
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This page remains visible, but it should be read as a locality brief rather than a full-confidence suburb profile.
This page is useful for direction-setting, not closure. Use it to frame the locality, then confirm the story with compare, stronger nearby suburbs, and the state hub.
If Garthowen feels too thin on its own, use these nearby suburbs as stronger local reads before making a shortlist decision.
pop same · house +$50K · rent +$170/wk
Similar local read: useful for context, but still compare the actual market signals.
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Similar local read: useful for context, but still compare the actual market signals.
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Price history
Full data detail
Garthowen NSW
Garthowen is a quiet locality in New South Wales within the Tamworth Regional local government area (postcode 2345). With a population of 169, the suburb has an established demographic with a median age of 42. Households earn a median income of $109K per year, with an average household size of 2.6 people. NSW employment has moved +0.3% year-on-year in the official Jobs and Skills Australia NERO series, which provides the broader jobs backdrop for this suburb. NSW also had 37 Commonwealth-backed major projects under construction, 5 underway, and 75 in planning as at 2 October 2024, which is useful as a broader delivery backdrop rather than a suburb-specific project count. The most common occupations are technicians & trades, professionals, community & personal service. Employment in the area leans toward education and retail trade. The top ancestries reported are Australian, English, Irish.
The median house price in Garthowen is $1.3 million, having surged 113.7% over the past year. The median weekly rent is $180 (Census 2021). This gives a gross rental yield of approximately 0.7%. The median monthly mortgage repayment is $1,733.
Public transport access includes 16 bus stops. The crime rate in the Tamworth Regional LGA is moderate at 6,891 incidents per 100,000 population.
From an investment perspective, Garthowen offers a gross rental yield of 0.7%, rated as low yield. Property prices are near the state median ($1.3M/$1.5M). The price-to-income ratio of 11.5x is considered stretched. House prices have moved +113.7% year-on-year.
Garthowen is a quiet locality in New South Wales within the Tamworth Regional local government area (postcode 2345). With a population of 169, the suburb has an established demographic with a median age of 42. Households earn a median income of $109K per year, with an average household size of 2.6 people. NSW employment has moved +0.3% year-on-year in the official Jobs and Skills Australia NERO series, which provides the broader jobs backdrop for this suburb. NSW also had 37 Commonwealth-backed major projects under construction, 5 underway, and 75 in planning as at 2 October 2024, which is useful as a broader delivery backdrop rather than a suburb-specific project count. The most common occupations are technicians & trades, professionals, community & personal service. Employment in the area leans toward education and retail trade. The top ancestries reported are Australian, English, Irish.
The median house price in Garthowen is $1.3 million, having surged 113.7% over the past year. The median weekly rent is $180 (Census 2021). This gives a gross rental yield of approximately 0.7%. The median monthly mortgage repayment is $1,733.
Public transport access includes 16 bus stops. The crime rate in the Tamworth Regional LGA is moderate at 6,891 incidents per 100,000 population.
From an investment perspective, Garthowen offers a gross rental yield of 0.7%, rated as low yield. Property prices are near the state median ($1.3M/$1.5M). The price-to-income ratio of 11.5x is considered stretched. House prices have moved +113.7% year-on-year.
Garthowen FAQ
Common questions-
What LGA is Garthowen in?
Garthowen is in the Tamworth Regional Local Government Area, NSW, postcode 2345. Council-level context for Tamworth Regional LGA (suburb mix, population, rent, and price coverage) is available on the QuickProperty LGA page.
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What is the median house price in Garthowen?
The current median house price in Garthowen, NSW is $1.3M, based on the latest available sales data from state Valuers General offices and ABS Data by Region.
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What is the typical weekly rent in Garthowen?
The median weekly rent in Garthowen is $180/wk, based on ABS Census 2021 rent fallback.
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Is Garthowen a good investment?
QuickProperty's investment signals for Garthowen show: Low Yield, Near Median, Stretched. These are computed from price, rent, income, and population data — not an opaque score.
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Where does QuickProperty get its data for Garthowen?
Property prices come from state Valuers General offices and ABS Data by Region. Demographics are from ABS Census 2021. School ICSEA scores are from ACARA. Crime statistics are from state police agencies. Transport data is sourced from GTFS feeds.
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How often is the Garthowen data updated?
Property prices update quarterly. RBA macro indicators update with each deploy. Demographics are from Census 2021. School ICSEA scores are from ACARA 2025.