Armidale NSW 2350
Armidale is a suburb in New South Wales, 478 km from Sydney CBD, around 6 hours 10 minutes by car. Population is 23,967; the median age is 36 and the median household income is $74,464 per year. By household income, education, and employment patterns, it ranks in the middle range nationally. The suburb grew 2.6% between 2016 and 2021. At the 2021 Census, households here paid a median rent of $290 per week and a median monthly mortgage of $1,500. Armidale is characterised by high crime risk. Of 16 schools within the suburb boundary, 1 ranks above the state average, and walkability is moderate.
Is Armidale a good suburb?
Armidale scores a C (36/100) on SuburbScan's Liveability grade — strong on transit and prices, weaker on safety.
Mixed results
16 schools · 1 above peer schools
Very walkable
Walkability 64/100 · 478.4 km · 368 min drive to Sydney
More affordable than most
Median $625K · More affordable than 81% of NSW
High crime risk
Fire 29/100 · Crime 88/100
Mid-range socio-economic
SEIFA decile 5/10 · median age 36 · 23,967 residents
Liveability Rating
36 / 100 · Ranked #1123 in NSWEach bar is Armidale's rank among NSW suburbs, from 0 to 100 (higher is better).
No flood data is published for New South Wales — a blank here means we hold no data, not that there is no risk.
How do you rate the liveability in Armidale?
Local knowledge beats any dataset. Rate it and see what other residents think.
Our score
36 / 100
From schools, safety and socio-economic data — not opinion.
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Median House Price
Public listings dataArmidale's house market is moving higher: the median sale price reached $625,000, roughly 22% above where it sat a year earlier.
Houses
$625,000
Based on 763 recorded sales in the last 24 months.
Typically sold in 38 days — median across 202 sales that recorded a listing period
By bedrooms
- 1 bed 10 sales $735K
- 2 bed 34 sales $478K
- 3 bed 328 sales $570K
- 4 bed 273 sales $700K
- 5 bed 56 sales $811K
- 6 bed 16 sales $880K
Units
$402,500
Based on 110 recorded sales in the last 24 months.
Typically sold in 61 days — median across 23 sales that recorded a listing period
By bedrooms
- 1 bed 9 sales $150K
- 2 bed 53 sales $350K
- 3 bed 33 sales $501K
Currently for Sale
Last 6 monthsHouses in Armidale are currently listed at around $680,000 on average. Based on 213 houses listed in the past six months.
Houses
$680K
213 houses listed in the last 6 months.
Units
$406K
14 units listed in the last 6 months.
227 of the suburb's 8,785 dwellings (2.6%) were listed for sale in the last 6 months.
Rental Market
Advertised rents · last 6 monthsHouses in Armidale rent for around $500 a week on average, based on 298 houses listed for rent in the past six months.
Houses
$500/wk
298 houses advertised for rent in the last 6 months.
Units
$380/wk
85 units advertised for rent in the last 6 months.
383 rentals advertised against an estimated 3,417 rented homes (11.2%) in the last 6 months.
Rent agreed on new leases
Jul–Sep 2026- 3-bed houses
- $495/wk
- 111 bonds
- +31% since 2021
- 2-bed units
- $380/wk
- 56 bonds
- +43% since 2021
Median weekly rent on bonds lodged for new tenancies across postcode 2350 (NSW publishes bonds by postcode, which can cover several suburbs). Change since 2021 compares the median of the first four quarters with the last four. Asking rents above come from advertised listings.
Rental affordability
June quarter 2025127 Acceptable · the average rental household in this region would pay about 24% of its income on the median rent in postcode 2350.
SGS Rental Affordability Index: a score of 100 means rent takes 30% of income, the usual housing-stress line; lower scores are less affordable. "Region" is the capital city or the rest of the state.
Gross rental yield
Indicative$500/week ($26,000 a year) on a $680,000 median
$380/week ($20,000 a year) on a $406,000 median
Gross yield — before strata, rates, management, insurance and vacancy. Calculated from median advertised rents and median asking prices over the last 6 months. How we calculate.
Is Armidale safe? Crime statistics
2025Crime in Armidale sits in the high band, with 2,578 incidents recorded in 2025 — down about 8% on the prior year.
2,578 offences
7.8% since 2024Crime Trend
Serious Road Crashes
2021–202548 crashes
where someone was killed or admitted to hospital, 3 of them fatal
Where they happened
Crashes are counted where they happened, so a main road through the suburb carries people passing through; this is not a measure of risk to residents. Roads are listed with 3 or more serious crashes.
Council Flood Studies
Armidale Regional Council has published 4 flood studies on the NSW Flood Data Portal. The mapped flood areas are in those studies; SuburbScan does not hold them.
Schools
16 schools serve Armidale, and results are mixed — some outperforming peer-suburb schools, some below. Sandon Public School leads the pack.
- • 4,809 students across 15 schools (avg 321)
- • Sectors: 7 Government, 7 Independent, 2 Catholic
- • ICSEA 697-1097, median 1008 (around the national baseline of 1000)
- • Largest: Armidale Secondary College (1,029 students)
Primary
Secondary
Combined
Universities nearby
3.9% of residents here are full-time university students aged 15–24.
Distance is measured to the suburb centre. A campus nearby does not by itself mean a student rental market — most suburbs within a few kilometres of one have a student share close to the national norm, and the figure above is what tells them apart.
Walkability
Armidale is somewhat walkable on foot — at 64/100, a short cluster of errands work on foot but most trips still benefit from a car. Within the suburb there are 7 supermarkets, 88 parks and 58 cafes to anchor that walking radius.
Public transport
Weekday and weekend service frequency across every stop inside Armidale.
- Peak (7-9am + 5-7pm)
- 216.2 arrivals/hr
- Off-peak weekday
- 94.3 arrivals/hr
- Saturday
- 35.8 arrivals/hr
- Median peak wait
- 0 min
- Span of service
- 10.7 hours
Scheduled service only, based on the 21 October 2026 timetable. Reliability (delays, cancellations) not measured.
NBN connectivity
The internet access technology available across NBN premises in Armidale.
- Full-fibre (FTTP) share
- 91%
- Premises covered
- 14,869
NBN Co fixed-line and fixed-wireless premises, as at 30 December 2025. Higher-quality technologies (full fibre) score above copper, wireless, and satellite. Actual speeds depend on your plan.
Amenities
Armidale: council population
The three add up to the change above. These are council-wide figures from the ABS, not figures for this suburb alone — this suburb's own population is in the census section above.
Socio-economic profile
The ABS scores 56 small areas inside this suburb and averages them into the single decile above. They fall into 9 different deciles — a wide range, so parts of this suburb rank well above the average and parts well below it.
Armidale is home to about 24,000 residents, with a median age of 36, broadly in line with the national figure. Median household income runs at $74,000 a year, with unemployment at 5.7%.
2021 Census · change since 2016
Population
23,967
Median Age
36
Median Household Income
$74,464/yr
Census Median Rent
$290/wk
Census Median Mortgage
$1,500/mo
Avg Household Size
2.3
Median Personal Income
$37,960/yr
Unemployment Rate
5.7%
Unoccupied Dwellings
11.8%
Total Dwellings
8,785
Owner-Occupier Rate
61.1%
Houses
81.8%
Rental Stress
20.3%
Mortgage Stress
24.2%
Work From Home
26.9%
Dwelling Types
Property Ownership
310 rented from a state or territory housing authority and 197 from a community housing provider, as a share of the 3,312 rented dwellings above — not of all dwellings.
Demographics
- Born in Australia
- 74.0%
- English Spoken at Home
- 78.6%
- Employment Rate
- 52.8%
- Completed Year 12
- 45.0%
Occupations
Religion
Country of Birth (overseas)
Largest overseas birthplaces, as a share of all residents.
When They Arrived
Share of all residents by the year they arrived in Australia. Periods cover different numbers of years, so compare the shape rather than the bar widths.
1,634 residents (6.8%) arrived since 2016. Australia’s borders were closed to most arrivals from March 2020, so the last two years of that period are much smaller than the ones before them — nationally 260,799 people arrived in 2019 against 28,521 in 2021.
Where New Residents Came From
Where residents aged five and over lived five years before the 2021 Census, for those who lived somewhere else.
5.8% of residents (1,304) lived in a capital city five years earlier, most of them in Sydney (749).
Top places newcomers came from, as a share of the 22,652 residents aged five and over. Areas are ABS statistical regions. Small counts are approximate: the ABS adjusts every figure slightly to protect privacy.
Languages Spoken at Home
Top languages other than English, as a share of all residents.
Age Distribution
Family & Household Composition
Commute to Work
1% of employed residents work in a capital's city centre (69 of 10,396).
City centre: the ABS area around each capital's CBD, such as Sydney Inner City or Perth City (which takes in Subiaco and Leederville). 2021 Census place of work.
Local Jobs
People who work in this suburb against employed people who live here, 2021 Census.
About 11,761 people work here; 10,396 employed residents live here.
Roughly as many jobs as working residents (1.1 per resident). At least 12% of the people who work here must live elsewhere.
Counts are by place of work and place of usual residence. The ABS counts jobs in zones; where a zone spans several places, its jobs are shared out by land use. The ABS also adjusts every figure slightly to protect privacy.
Education
Cars per Dwelling
Council Rates
Households face an average residential rates bill of $1,477 a year through Armidale based on 2024 figures.
How this land is zoned
- Rural and farming 74%
- Residential 13%
- Environmental 8%
- Infrastructure and transport 3%
- Parks and recreation 1%
- Industrial 1%
Zoning sets what may be built, not what is there today. A single address can sit in a different zone to the suburb around it — the property page shows the zone for one address.
Building Approvals: Armidale
In the year to August 2026, 77 new dwellings were approved across Armidale. That mix is 52 houses and 25 units. Approvals are down 76.3% on the same period a year earlier.
Aboriginal Land Council
Aboriginal land in this area is administered by the Armidale Local Aboriginal Land Council.
Local Aboriginal Land Councils are statutory bodies under the Aboriginal Land Rights Act 1983, responsible for land claims and land management for their members. Their boundaries are administrative and are not a statement of whose Country this is. NSW does not publish a register of Aboriginal parties by area — they are registered for each project.
Air Quality
MODERATEPM2.5 averaged 6.7 µg/m³ in 2025 — below Australia's NEPM annual standard (8 µg/m³), slightly above the stricter WHO guideline (5 µg/m³). 7 days exceeded the daily threshold of 25 µg/m³.
PM10 averaged 9 µg/m³. Days over the limit in 2025: PM10 0.
From the Armidale monitoring station, 0.9 km away.
Climate & Setting
from Uralla (Dumaresq St), 23.1 kmModerate rainfall.
- Elevation
- 1,037 m
- above sea level, at the suburb centre
- Near high-voltage lines
- 0.2% of addresses
- 24 within 100 m of an overhead line of 110 kV or more
- Annual rainfall
- 684 mm
- 75 rainy days
- Summer max (Jan)
- —
- Winter min (Jul)
- —
Elevation is the ground at the suburb centre, from Geoscience Australia's National Digital Elevation Model. Approximate — it reads high in dense built-up areas. It is a measure of height above sea level and not an indicator of flood risk, which depends on height above nearby waterways.
Industrial Emissions Nearby
1 facility within 5 km- 2.6 km
EV adoption
In postcode 2350, 82 of 19,695 registered light vehicles are battery-electric on 31 January 2025. A further 2.6% (513 vehicles) are hybrid or plug-in hybrid, taking the non-petrol, non-diesel share to 3.0%.
Rooftop solar
In postcode 2350, 5,159 rooftop-solar systems totalling 34.8 MW have been installed since 2001, against 11,037 dwellings recorded in the 2021 Census. 422 went up in the last year.
Counts every system certified since 2001, so a roof re-fitted with a newer system is counted twice, and small commercial systems are included alongside houses — useful for comparing postcodes, not an estimate of how many homes have working panels today.
2026 covers part of the year only, to 2026-07.
First Home Owner Grant
FY2026-27$10,000 for new homes priced up to $600,000.
Off-the-plan or contracted-build value cap is $750,000 (vs $600,000 for completed new homes). Stamp duty concessions are a separate scheme (First Home Buyers Assistance).
Mortgage repayments
3 mortgage brokers are registered in this suburb.
Transfer duty at the owner-occupier rate, and it excludes first home buyer concessions — those can cut it substantially or remove it entirely. Excludes legal, inspection and lender fees. Check with Revenue NSW
The First Home Owner Grant applies to newly built homes only, so it isn't available on an established purchase. A first home buyer building or buying new under $600,000 may qualify for $10,000 — see what qualifies with Revenue NSW.
At $625,000 this is $25,000 above the $600,000 First Home Owner Grant cap. A first home buyer may qualify for $10,000 on a newly built home — check eligibility with Revenue NSW.
A deposit under 20% usually attracts Lenders Mortgage Insurance, which this doesn't include.
Principal and interest over 30 years, fixed rate. Excludes fees, offset, redraw and LMI. Default rate is the median comparison rate across 1788 advertised products as at 2026-10-27 — indicative only, and not an offer. Your rate depends on the lender, your deposit and your circumstances. Not financial advice.
Federal Electorate
Currently held by Barnaby Joyce The Nationals
| Year | Winner | 2PP ALP | 2PP LNP | Swing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Barnaby Joyce | 32.9% | 67.1% | -1.9 |
| 2022 | Barnaby Joyce | 33.6% | 66.4% | -1.2 |
| 2019 | Barnaby Joyce | 32.4% | 67.6% | +1.2 |
Results are per division — federal electoral boundaries are redrawn periodically, so the history reflects this division's past, not necessarily the exact suburb's voters across time.
State Electorate
Currently held by Brendan Moylan The Nationals — elected at the Jun 2024 by-election, after the results below
Next state election: 13 March 2027.
| Year | Winner | Won with |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Adam Marshall NP | 83.8% |
| 2019 | Adam Marshall NP | 82.8% |
| 2015 | Adam Marshall NP | 77.1% |
Results are per district. Districts were last redrawn in 2021, so results from before then describe the district of that name, not necessarily this suburb's voters. Results: © State of New South Wales through the NSW Electoral Commission, CC BY 4.0, adapted.
Looking at a specific address in Armidale?
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- Nearest and zoned schools, with the walk from that door
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Common questions about Armidale
Is Armidale a safe place to live?
Recorded crime in Armidale is high (88/100, ranked against other NSW suburbs on offences per resident). Offences against shops, venues and visitors are divided by the people who live here, so suburbs with large daytime or visitor populations rank higher than living there may feel.
What natural hazards affect Armidale?
Armidale has a low recorded bushfire history (29/100, ranked against every Australian suburb with any fire history). These are suburb-wide figures; check the address, as flood and bushfire exposure change street by street.
Is Armidale a good place to live?
Armidale has a SuburbScan Liveability grade of C (36/100), ranked against other NSW suburbs on school quality (25%), safety (25%), SEIFA socio-economic advantage (25%), walkability (15%) and CBD access (10%). Whether it suits you depends on what you weigh — each of those is on this page.
What is the population of Armidale?
Armidale, NSW had a population of 23,967 at the 2021 Australian Bureau of Statistics census.
What is the postcode for Armidale, NSW?
The postcode for Armidale, NSW is 2350.
How far is Armidale from Sydney?
Armidale is 478 km from Sydney CBD by road, about 368 minutes by car in normal traffic. Distance is the most-direct driving route, not straight-line.
What is the median household income in Armidale?
At the 2021 ABS Census, median household income in Armidale was $74,464 a year. It is the most recent suburb-level income figure until 2026 Census results are released in 2027.
What is the median weekly rent in Armidale?
The median advertised rent in Armidale is $500 a week for houses (298 listings) and $380 a week for units (85 listings), from rental listings over the last six months.
What is the median age in Armidale?
The median age of residents in Armidale was 36 at the 2021 ABS Census.
Is Armidale at risk of bushfire?
Armidale has a low recorded bushfire history (29/100). The score comes from Geoscience Australia's historical bushfire boundaries, with planned burns excluded: the area of recorded fires touching the suburb relative to its size, ranked against every Australian suburb with any fire history. It records where fire has burned, not a bushfire-prone land designation, which your council's planning scheme sets.
How are the schools in Armidale?
There are 16 schools inside the Armidale boundary: 1 above, 7 at, and 7 below similar schools on NAPLAN, compared with same-state, same-type schools of similar socio-educational advantage (ICSEA).
Is Armidale walkable?
Armidale scores 64/100 on the SuburbScan Walkability Score, making it somewhat walkable. The score is a weighted average of public transport, schools, parks, supermarkets, GPs, pharmacies, childcare, and hospitals within walking distance.
What is the air quality in Armidale?
The nearest government air-quality monitoring station to Armidale (Armidale) recorded a 2025 annual mean PM2.5 of 6.7 µg/m³ and PM10 of 9.0 µg/m³. That puts Armidale below the Australian NEPM annual standard of 8 µg/m³ but above the stricter WHO guideline of 5 µg/m³.
What is the weather like in Armidale?
At the nearest Bureau of Meteorology station to Armidale, Uralla (Dumaresq St) (23.1 km away), 684 mm of rain a year over 75 rainy days over 2006-2026.
Is the First Home Owner Grant available in Armidale?
First-home buyers in NSW may be eligible for $10,000 towards new homes with a purchase price up to $600,000. The grant is administered by Revenue NSW; confirm current eligibility before signing a contract — state rules and amounts can change.
What council does Armidale belong to?
Armidale sits within the Armidale local government area. Council rates, planning approvals, and waste collection fall under this LGA.
How much are council rates in Armidale?
The average residential rates bill through Armidale is $1,477 a year (2024). Every suburb in this LGA shares the same schedule — individual bills vary with land value.
How much is being built near Armidale?
Across Armidale, 77 new residential dwellings were approved in the year to August 2026 (source: ABS Building Approvals). That's down 76.3% on the same period a year earlier. These are LGA-level totals — every suburb in the council shares the same figure.
Which federal electorate is Armidale in?
Armidale sits within the federal Division of New England, currently held by Barnaby Joyce (The Nationals).
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Data freshness
- Census · 2021
- Median sale prices · Oct 2026
- For-sale & rental market · Oct 2026
- Council rates · FY 2024–25
- Building approvals · Aug 2026
- Schools · 2025
- Public transport · Oct 2026
- NBN connectivity · Dec 2025
- Crime · 2025
- Road crashes · 2021–2025
- Air quality · 2025
- Climate · 2006–2026
- Socio-economic (SEIFA) · 2021
- EV adoption · Jan 2025
- First Home Owner Grant · Sep 2026
- Federal electorate · 2025
- State electorate · 2023
- Amenities · Sep 2026
- Health & emergency facilities · Sep 2026
- Industrial emissions (NPI) · 2024/2025
- Coastal erosion · 1988–2025
- Aircraft noise · 2024
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