Pages River NSW 2338
Pages River is in Upper Hunter Shire LGA, NSW, postcode 2338, with population 5.
Usable evidence
Pages River is usable, but it still needs cross-checking.
Direct signals include Property prices, Market rent, and Crime. Treat Schools, Hospitals, and Transport as the main gap before this becomes a stronger decision page.
Gross rent yield screens at about 4.2%. Postcode-derived rent for 2338. Multiple suburbs can share this rental market signal.
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Use current rent as a starting signal, not as a fixed underwriting truth.
Schools, transport, and hospitals are useful as presence signals, but they still have different source cadences.
Rent-led investor candidate
Gross rent yield screens at about 4.2%. Snapshot rent $410/wk.
Postcode-derived rent for 2338. Multiple suburbs can share this rental market signal.
Pages River is usable, but it still needs cross-checking.
Direct signals include Property prices, Market rent, and Crime. Treat Schools, Hospitals, and Transport as the main gap before this becomes a stronger decision page.
Use compare before shortlisting so the missing evidence is balanced against nearby suburbs.
Property prices, Market rent, Crime
No fallback or lower-precision signals flagged.
Schools, Hospitals, Transport, Population growth
Pages River currently reads as a thin-context candidate.
Entry price sits in the lower-cost range for a first-pass screen. Higher SEIFA context supports a stronger local-quality read. The page is thin enough that nearby alternatives should be checked before shortlisting. Small local population makes the signal set more fragile.
Use stronger nearby reads or rankings before treating this suburb as a shortlist candidate.
Entry price sits in the lower-cost range for a first-pass screen. Higher SEIFA context supports a stronger local-quality read.
The page is thin enough that nearby alternatives should be checked before shortlisting. Small local population makes the signal set more fragile.
Schools, Transport
Use as context
This page stays indexable because Pages River 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, transport stops, population trend data, and building approvals. That narrows how much confidence you should place on a single-page read.
Start here for context, then open compare, the state hub, or larger nearby suburbs before treating this as a complete market decision.
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 Pages River feels too thin on its own, use these nearby suburbs as stronger local reads before making a shortlist decision.
pop same · house -$175.60000000000002K
Similar local read: useful for context, but still compare the actual market signals.
pop +2000 · house +$34.39999999999998K · rent -$130/wk
Better covered alternative: use this as the stronger reference point before judging the thin page.
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- Investors want to know whether rent, yield, and affordability broadly support the suburb story.
- Researchers want one place that ties property, demographics, transport, and services together.
Price history
Full data detail
Pages River NSW
Pages River is a quiet locality in New South Wales within the Upper Hunter Shire local government area (postcode 2338). With a population of 5, the suburb has an older demographic with a median age of 64. Households earn a median income of $53K per year, with an average household size of 2 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 top ancestries reported are English, Australian.
The median house price in Pages River is $506,000, having dropped significantly 44.1% over the past year. The current median weekly rent is $410. This gives a gross rental yield of approximately 4.2%.
The crime rate in the Upper Hunter Shire LGA is below average at 3,369 incidents per 100,000 population.
From an investment perspective, Pages River offers a gross rental yield of 4.2%, rated as moderate yield. Property prices sit below the state median ($506K/$1.5M), suggesting a potential value opportunity. The price-to-income ratio of 9.5x is considered moderate. House prices have moved -44.1% year-on-year.
Pages River is a quiet locality in New South Wales within the Upper Hunter Shire local government area (postcode 2338). With a population of 5, the suburb has an older demographic with a median age of 64. Households earn a median income of $53K per year, with an average household size of 2 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 top ancestries reported are English, Australian.
The median house price in Pages River is $506,000, having dropped significantly 44.1% over the past year. The current median weekly rent is $410. This gives a gross rental yield of approximately 4.2%.
The crime rate in the Upper Hunter Shire LGA is below average at 3,369 incidents per 100,000 population.
From an investment perspective, Pages River offers a gross rental yield of 4.2%, rated as moderate yield. Property prices sit below the state median ($506K/$1.5M), suggesting a potential value opportunity. The price-to-income ratio of 9.5x is considered moderate. House prices have moved -44.1% year-on-year.
Pages River FAQ
Common questions-
What LGA is Pages River in?
Pages River is in the Upper Hunter Shire Local Government Area, NSW, postcode 2338. Council-level context for Upper Hunter Shire 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 Pages River?
The current median house price in Pages River, NSW is $506K, 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 Pages River?
The median weekly rent in Pages River is $410/wk, based on the current market rent dataset. The current rent signal is rent-led investor candidate.
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What does the rent signal say about Pages River?
Rent-led investor candidate: Gross rent yield screens at about 4.2%. Use this as a suburb screening signal before comparing candidates or modelling a purchase; the matching rent ranking can provide broader market context.
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Is Pages River a good investment?
QuickProperty's investment signals for Pages River show: Moderate Yield, Below Median, Moderate. 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 Pages River?
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 Pages River 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.