Hillston NSW 2675
Hillston sits 694 km from Sydney CBD in New South Wales, around 8 hours 5 minutes by car. Census data records 1,547 residents with a median age of 36 and a median household income of $77,272 per year. By household income, education, and employment patterns, it ranks in the lower-middle tier nationally. The town grew 5.6% between 2016 and 2021. At the 2021 Census, households here paid a median rent of $220 per week and a median monthly mortgage of $901. Hillston is characterised by high crime risk. 2 schools sit within the town boundary, and walkability is low.
Is Hillston a good town?
Hillston scores a D (25/100) on SuburbScan's Liveability grade — strong on prices, weaker on transit.
Mixed results
2 schools
Car-dependent
Walkability 0/100 · 694 km · 485 min drive to Sydney
More affordable than most
Median $282K · More affordable than 96% of NSW
Moderate crime risk
Fire 26/100 · Crime 68/100
Below-average income
SEIFA decile 3/10 · median age 36 · 1,547 residents
Liveability Rating
25 / 100 · Ranked #1363 in NSWEach bar is Hillston's rank among NSW suburbs, from 0 to 100 (higher is better). Scored on 4 of 5 factors: no school data, so the other factors carry its weight.
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 Hillston?
Local knowledge beats any dataset. Rate it and see what other residents think.
Our score
25 / 100
From schools, safety and socio-economic data — not opinion.
Residents say
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Median House Price
Public listings dataHillston's house market is moving higher: the median sale price reached $282,000, roughly 54% above where it sat a year earlier.
Houses
$282,500
Based on 34 recorded sales in the last 24 months.
By bedrooms
- 3 bed 19 sales $255K
- 4 bed 5 sales $400K
Land
$62,500
Based on only 6 sales — small sample, take as indicative.
Rental Market
Rent agreed on new leases
Jul–Sep 2026- All rentals
- $330/wk
- 11 bonds
Median weekly rent on bonds lodged for new tenancies across postcode 2675 (NSW publishes bonds by postcode, which can cover several suburbs). Asking rents above come from advertised listings.
Is Hillston safe? Crime statistics
2025Crime in Hillston sits in the moderate band, with 95 incidents recorded in 2025 — down roughly 24% on the prior year.
95 offences
24.0% since 2024Crime Trend
Serious Road Crashes
2021–20257 crashes
where someone was killed or admitted to hospital, 1 of them fatal
Crashes are counted where they happened, so a main road through the town 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
Carrathool Shire Council has published 6 flood studies on the NSW Flood Data Portal. The mapped flood areas are in those studies; SuburbScan does not hold them.
Schools
Two schools serve Hillston, and performance is broadly on par with peer-suburb schools.
- • 235 students across 2 schools (avg 118)
- • Sectors: 1 Government, 1 Catholic
- • ICSEA 911-1011, median 961 (below the national baseline of 1000)
- • Largest: Hillston Central School (212 students)
Primary
Combined
Walkability
Hillston is very car-dependent on foot — at 0/100, nearly all errands require a car. Within the town there are 1 supermarket, 11 parks and 4 cafes to anchor that walking radius.
We hold no public transport timetable data for this area, so public transport is not rated here and the score is spread across the remaining components. It is not counted as zero.
Public transport
Weekday and weekend service frequency across every stop inside Hillston.
- Peak (7-9am + 5-7pm)
- 20.0 arrivals/hr
- Off-peak weekday
- 7.9 arrivals/hr
- Saturday
- 0.0 arrivals/hr
- Median peak wait
- 0 min
- Span of service
- 8.5 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 Hillston.
- Full-fibre (FTTP) share
- 11%
- Premises covered
- 724
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
Carrathool: council population
The three add up to the change above. These are council-wide figures from the ABS, not figures for this town alone — this town's own population is in the census section above.
Socio-economic profile
The ABS scores 4 small areas inside this town and averages them into the single decile above. They fall into 2 different deciles — a narrow range, so the average describes the town closely.
Hillston is home to about 1,500 residents, with a median age of 36, broadly in line with the national figure. Median household income runs at $77,000 a year, with unemployment at 2.5%.
2021 Census · change since 2016
Population
1,547
Median Age
36
Median Household Income
$77,272/yr
Census Median Rent
$220/wk
Census Median Mortgage
$901/mo
Avg Household Size
2.4
Median Personal Income
$44,304/yr
Unemployment Rate
2.5%
Unoccupied Dwellings
13.0%
Total Dwellings
529
Owner-Occupier Rate
60.9%
Houses
90.7%
Rental Stress
14.8%
Mortgage Stress
14.0%
Work From Home
8.4%
Dwelling Types
Property Ownership
13 rented from a state or territory housing authority and 7 from a community housing provider, as a share of the 184 rented dwellings above — not of all dwellings.
Demographics
- Born in Australia
- 68.2%
- English Spoken at Home
- 72.9%
- Employment Rate
- 62%
- Completed Year 12
- 30.8%
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.
185 residents (12.0%) 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.
2.8% of residents (40) lived in a capital city five years earlier, most of them in Sydney (21).
Top places newcomers came from, as a share of the 1,446 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
Local Jobs
People who work in this town against employed people who live here, 2021 Census.
About 813 people work here; 781 employed residents live here.
Roughly as many jobs as working residents (1.0 per resident).
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 $510 a year through Carrathool based on 2024 figures.
How this land is zoned
- Rural and farming 95%
- Environmental 5%
Zoning sets what may be built, not what is there today. A single address can sit in a different zone to the town around it — the property page shows the zone for one address.
Building Approvals: Carrathool
In the year to August 2026, 3 new dwellings were approved across Carrathool. Almost all of the pipeline is detached houses. Approvals are down 100.0% on the same period a year earlier.
Aboriginal Land Council
Aboriginal land in this area is administered by the Griffith 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.
Setting
- Elevation
- 117 m
- above sea level, at the town centre
Elevation is the ground at the town 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.
EV adoption
In postcode 2675, 3 of 1,321 registered light vehicles are battery-electric on 31 January 2025. A further 1.9% (25 vehicles) are hybrid or plug-in hybrid, taking the non-petrol, non-diesel share to 2.1%.
Rooftop solar
In postcode 2675, 368 rooftop-solar systems totalling 4.2 MW have been installed since 2001, against 638 dwellings recorded in the 2021 Census. 17 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
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 $282,500 this is under 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 David Farley One Nation — elected at the 2026 by-election, after the results below
| Year | Winner | 2PP ALP | 2PP LNP | Swing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Sussan Ley | 37.1% | 62.9% | +3.5 |
| 2022 | Sussan Ley | 33.6% | 66.3% | -3.5 |
| 2019 | Sussan Ley | 30.2% | 69.8% | -0.7 |
Results are per division — federal electoral boundaries are redrawn periodically, so the history reflects this division's past, not necessarily the exact town's voters across time.
State Electorate
Currently held by Helen Dalton Independent
Next state election: 13 March 2027.
| Year | Winner | Won with |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Helen Dalton IND | 66.0% |
| 2019 | Helen Dalton | 53.5% |
| 2015 | Adrian Piccoli NP | 72.7% |
Results are per district. Districts were last redrawn in 2021, so results from before then describe the district of that name, not necessarily this town's voters. Results: © State of New South Wales through the NSW Electoral Commission, CC BY 4.0, adapted.
Looking at a specific address in Hillston?
Every figure above is a town average, and an average smooths over the difference between a street of family homes and a block of flats. Look up one address and you get the census for the few hundred people around it, its own nearest schools and stops, and what the state has mapped for that block.
- The census for a few hundred neighbours, not all 1,547 residents
- Nearest and zoned schools, with the walk from that door
- Flood, bushfire and noise mapping, where the state publishes it
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Common questions about Hillston
Is Hillston a safe place to live?
Recorded crime in Hillston is moderate (68/100, ranked against other NSW suburbs on offences per resident).
What natural hazards affect Hillston?
Hillston has a low recorded bushfire history (26/100, ranked against every Australian suburb with any fire history). These are town-wide figures; check the address, as flood and bushfire exposure change street by street.
Is Hillston a good place to live?
Hillston has a SuburbScan Liveability grade of D (25/100), 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 Hillston?
Hillston, NSW had a population of 1,547 at the 2021 Australian Bureau of Statistics census.
What is the postcode for Hillston, NSW?
The postcode for Hillston, NSW is 2675.
How far is Hillston from Sydney?
Hillston is 694 km from Sydney CBD by road, about 485 minutes by car in normal traffic. Distance is the most-direct driving route, not straight-line.
What is the median household income in Hillston?
At the 2021 ABS Census, median household income in Hillston was $77,272 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 Hillston?
There are too few current rental listings in Hillston for a reliable median. At the 2021 ABS Census the median weekly rent was $220, across all dwelling types.
What is the median age in Hillston?
The median age of residents in Hillston was 36 at the 2021 ABS Census.
Is Hillston at risk of bushfire?
Hillston has a low recorded bushfire history (26/100). The score comes from Geoscience Australia's historical bushfire boundaries, with planned burns excluded: the area of recorded fires touching the town 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 Hillston?
There are 2 schools inside the Hillston boundary: 2 at similar schools on NAPLAN, compared with same-state, same-type schools of similar socio-educational advantage (ICSEA).
Is the First Home Owner Grant available in Hillston?
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 Hillston belong to?
Hillston sits within the Carrathool local government area. Council rates, planning approvals, and waste collection fall under this LGA.
How much are council rates in Hillston?
The average residential rates bill through Carrathool is $510 a year (2024). Every suburb in this LGA shares the same schedule — individual bills vary with land value.
How much is being built near Hillston?
Across Carrathool, 3 new residential dwellings were approved in the year to August 2026 (source: ABS Building Approvals). That's down 100.0% 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 Hillston in?
Hillston sits within the federal Division of Farrer, currently held by David Farley (One Nation).
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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
- 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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