Wirrimah is in Hilltops LGA, NSW, postcode 2803, with population 62.
The page is still useful for local context, but the evidence stack is too thin for a clean one-page call. Use nearby stronger suburbs or compare mode before treating it as a serious shortlist decision.
Entry price sits in the lower-cost range for a first-pass screen.
The page is thin enough that nearby alternatives should be checked before shortlisting. Small local population makes the signal set more fragile.
Indicative cashflow is interest-only and excludes tax — use the calculator for a full projection. Turnover divides recorded sales by an estimated household count (population over average household size).
At 4.2%: $2,440/mo (-616) · at 6.2% (current): $3,056/mo · at 8.2%: $3,731/mo (+675)
Assumes a 20% deposit and a 30-year principal-and-interest loan at the current RBA new owner-occupier variable rate, against median weekly household income (ABS Census 2021). Stress bands follow the 30% / 45%-of-income thresholds used in ANZ-CoreLogic and AIHW reporting. Rent vs buy compares that repayment with the suburb's median advertised rent; it excludes rates, insurance, maintenance and deposit opportunity cost.
Alternatives are similar-priced suburbs (0.7–1.4x this suburb's median) in other council areas that exceed it on the named metric. Indicative — not financial advice.
This suburb 10.7x · NSW median 11.7x — more affordable than the NSW typical
Nationally · more affordable to buy than 50% of AU suburbs
Building due diligence
The National Construction Code is the baseline. Local hazards and site classifications can change the required structure, materials, fixings, insulation and detailing.
About 2.2% of the suburb intersects mapped bushfire-prone land.
May affect: External construction · Roof and wall systems · Openings, screens and decks
Confirm the NCC climate zone used for the building design and energy provisions.
May affect: Insulation and glazing · Condensation control · Roof-space ventilation
A suburb layer cannot determine the site wind classification or Bushfire Attack Level.
May affect: Structure and tie-downs · Cladding and fixings · Openings and bushfire detailing
Confirm marine or corrosive exposure and the applicable termite-management requirements.
May affect: Fasteners and connectors · Roofing and coatings · Termite management
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Estimated exposure to NSW RFS Bush Fire Prone Land (CC BY), point-sampled across the suburb. This shows how much of the suburb sits within the official hazard layer — it is not a Bushfire Attack Level (BAL) rating or a property-level assessment. Obtain a BAL assessment (AS 3959) for an individual property.
Land-use mix estimated by point-sampling the suburb against NSW EPI Land Zoning polygons (CC BY 4.0). This is a suburb-level snapshot of planning zones, not a parcel-level zoning certificate or development advice. Check the relevant planning scheme for an individual property.
ABS population projection (2022 base) for the Young Surrounds SA2 statistical area — the finest official projection grain available; suburb-level projections do not exist.
Wirrimah is a sparsely populated locality in New South Wales within the Hilltops local government area (postcode 2803). The area has roughly 62 residents and an older demographic, with a median age of 57. Households earn a median income of $59K per year, with an average household size of 2.3 people. Recent annual estimates show population movement staying broadly stable across the broader catchment, with population growth running at -0.2% 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, sales, machinery operators & drivers. Employment in the area leans toward agriculture and transport & logistics. The top ancestries reported are English, Australian, Irish.
The median house price in Wirrimah is $624,000, broadly unchanged over the past year. The median monthly mortgage repayment is $1,063.
Public transport access includes 1 ferry wharf, 3 bus stops. The crime rate in the Hilltops LGA is below average at 3,254 incidents per 100,000 population.
On the investment side, Property prices sit below the state median ($624K/$1.5M), which can point to relative value. The price-to-income ratio of 10.7x is considered stretched. House prices have moved +0.0% year-on-year. Population growth of -0.2% year-on-year points to declining demand fundamentals. Building approvals have changed +0% year-on-year, indicating steady development activity.
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There is enough direct local evidence on Wirrimah for a first-pass decision.
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Official sale records parsed from cached Bulk PSI ZIP files with parser guardrails for token sales, non-house zoning, and low-value strata component records
Treat the rent field as missing until a market or plausible Census rent value is linked.
Schools, transport, and hospitals are useful as presence signals, but they still have different source cadences.
This page stays indexable because Wirrimah 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 and hospital coverage. 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.
Use this page to set direction, not to close a decision — frame the locality here, then confirm with compare, stronger nearby suburbs, and the state hub.
If Wirrimah feels too thin on its own, use these nearby suburbs as stronger local reads before making a shortlist decision.
pop same · house +$26.299999999999955K · adds rent coverage
Better covered alternative: use this as the stronger reference point before judging the thin page.
pop same · house -$78.70000000000005K
Similar local read: useful for context, but still compare the actual market signals.
Wirrimah is in the Hilltops Local Government Area, NSW, postcode 2803. Council-level context for Hilltops LGA (suburb mix, population, rent, and price coverage) is available on the QuickProperty LGA page.
The current median house price in Wirrimah, NSW is $624K, based on the latest available sales data from state Valuers General offices and ABS Data by Region.
QuickProperty's investment signals for Wirrimah show: Below Median, Stretched, Stable. These are computed from price, rent, income, and population data — not an opaque score.
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.
Property prices update quarterly. RBA macro indicators update with each deploy. Demographics are from Census 2021. School ICSEA scores are from ACARA 2025.