Ponto NSW 2818
Ponto is in Dubbo Regional LGA, NSW, postcode 2818, with population 53.
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Ponto depends on evidence that should be verified before a decision.
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This gives you directional coverage, but it is weaker than a current rent release.
Schools, transport, and hospitals are useful as presence signals, but they still have different source cadences.
Ponto 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
Ponto currently reads as a thin-context candidate.
Entry price sits in the lower-cost range for a first-pass screen. 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.
Entry price sits in the lower-cost range for a first-pass screen. 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.
Schools
Use as context
This page stays indexable because Ponto 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.
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 Ponto feels too thin on its own, use these nearby suburbs as stronger local reads before making a shortlist decision.
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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
Ponto NSW
Ponto is a quiet locality in New South Wales within the Dubbo Regional local government area (postcode 2818). With a population of 53, the suburb has a mature demographic with a median age of 49. Households earn a median income of $117K per year, with an average household size of 2.8 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 managers, professionals, technicians & trades. Employment in the area leans toward agriculture and retail trade. The top ancestries reported are Australian, English, Irish.
The median house price in Ponto is $600,000, having dropped significantly 16.5% over the past year. The median weekly rent is $200 (Census 2021). This gives a gross rental yield of approximately 1.7%. The median monthly mortgage repayment is $2,050.
Public transport access includes 7 bus stops. The crime rate in the Dubbo Regional LGA is moderate at 6,970 incidents per 100,000 population.
From an investment perspective, Ponto offers a gross rental yield of 1.7%, rated as low yield. Property prices sit below the state median ($600K/$1.5M), suggesting a potential value opportunity. The price-to-income ratio of 5.1x is considered affordable. House prices have moved -16.5% year-on-year.
Ponto is a quiet locality in New South Wales within the Dubbo Regional local government area (postcode 2818). With a population of 53, the suburb has a mature demographic with a median age of 49. Households earn a median income of $117K per year, with an average household size of 2.8 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 managers, professionals, technicians & trades. Employment in the area leans toward agriculture and retail trade. The top ancestries reported are Australian, English, Irish.
The median house price in Ponto is $600,000, having dropped significantly 16.5% over the past year. The median weekly rent is $200 (Census 2021). This gives a gross rental yield of approximately 1.7%. The median monthly mortgage repayment is $2,050.
Public transport access includes 7 bus stops. The crime rate in the Dubbo Regional LGA is moderate at 6,970 incidents per 100,000 population.
From an investment perspective, Ponto offers a gross rental yield of 1.7%, rated as low yield. Property prices sit below the state median ($600K/$1.5M), suggesting a potential value opportunity. The price-to-income ratio of 5.1x is considered affordable. House prices have moved -16.5% year-on-year.
Ponto FAQ
Common questions-
What LGA is Ponto in?
Ponto is in the Dubbo Regional Local Government Area, NSW, postcode 2818. Council-level context for Dubbo 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 Ponto?
The current median house price in Ponto, NSW is $600K, 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 Ponto?
The median weekly rent in Ponto is $200/wk, based on ABS Census 2021 rent fallback.
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Is Ponto a good investment?
QuickProperty's investment signals for Ponto show: Low Yield, Below Median, Affordable. 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 Ponto?
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 Ponto 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.