Located in New South Wales within the Cobar local government area, Mount Hope is a sparsely populated locality (postcode 2877). With a population of 16, the suburb has a younger, working-age population with a median age of 30. Households earn a median income of $47K per year, with an average household size of 3 people. Recent annual estimates show population movement staying broadly stable across the broader catchment, with population growth running at +0.1% year-on-year at the LGA level. NSW employment has moved +1.2% year-on-year in the official ABS Labour Force trend series, which provides the broader jobs backdrop for this suburb. NSW also had 35 Commonwealth-backed major projects under construction, 17 underway, and 67 in planning as at 2025-09-01, which is useful as a broader delivery backdrop rather than a suburb-specific project count. The most common occupations are managers, labourers. Employment in the area leans toward agriculture and construction. The top ancestries reported are Australian, English, Aboriginal Australian.
The current median weekly rent is $290.
The crime rate in the Cobar LGA is moderate at 6,874 incidents per 100,000 population.
On the investment side, Population growth of +0.1% year-on-year points to stable demand fundamentals. Building approvals have changed +0% year-on-year, indicating steady development activity.