Jindera NSW 2642
Jindera sits 550 km from Sydney CBD in New South Wales, around 5 hours 40 minutes by car. Census data records 2,721 residents with a median age of 38 and a median household income of $104,676 per year. By household income, education, and employment patterns, it ranks in the middle range nationally. The town grew 22.5% between 2016 and 2021. At the 2021 Census, households here paid a median rent of $316 per week and a median monthly mortgage of $1,573. Jindera is characterised by high crime risk. Of 3 schools within the town boundary, 1 ranks above the state average, and walkability is moderate.
Is Jindera a good town?
Jindera scores a B (51/100) on SuburbScan's Liveability grade — strong on prices.
Mixed results
3 schools · 1 above peer schools
Some car dependence
Walkability 52/100 · 550.3 km · 339 min drive to Sydney
Below the state median
Median $626K · Cheaper than 77% of NSW
Moderate crime risk
Fire 20/100 · Crime 61/100
Mid-range socio-economic
SEIFA decile 6/10 · median age 38 · 2,721 residents
Liveability Rating
51 / 100 · Ranked #716 in NSWEach bar is Jindera'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 Jindera?
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Our score
51 / 100
From schools, safety and socio-economic data — not opinion.
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Median House Price
Public listings dataJindera's house market is moving higher: the median sale price reached $626,000, about 6% above where it sat a year earlier.
Houses
$626,250
In line with its 4 neighbours (median $620,100)
Based on 70 recorded sales in the last 24 months.
Typically sold in 33 days — median across 22 sales that recorded a listing period
By bedrooms
- 3 bed 18 sales $558K
- 4 bed 38 sales $676K
- 5 bed 7 sales $1.17M
Land
$340,000
Based on 26 recorded sales in the last 24 months.
Currently for Sale
Last 6 monthsHouses in Jindera are currently listed at around $762,000 on average. Based on 16 houses listed in the past six months.
$762K
16 houses listed in the last 6 months.
16 of the suburb's 828 dwellings (1.9%) were listed for sale in the last 6 months.
Rental Market
Advertised rents · last 6 monthsHouses in Jindera rent for around $570 a week on average, based on 6 houses listed for rent in the past six months.
$570/wk
6 houses advertised for rent in the last 6 months.
6 rentals advertised against an estimated 104 rented homes (5.8%) in the last 6 months.
Rent agreed on new leases
Jul–Sep 2026- All rentals
- $495/wk
- 19 bonds
- +39% since 2021
Median weekly rent on bonds lodged for new tenancies across postcode 2642 (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 2025119 Moderately unaffordable · the average rental household in this region would pay about 25% of its income on the median rent in postcode 2642.
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$570/week ($30,000 a year) on a $762,000 median
Based on a small sample (6 listings) — indicative only.
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 Jindera safe? Crime statistics
2025Crime in Jindera sits in the moderate band, with 110 incidents recorded in 2025 — up roughly 51% on the prior year.
110 offences
50.7% 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
Greater Hume Shire Council has published 7 flood studies on the NSW Flood Data Portal. The mapped flood areas are in those studies; SuburbScan does not hold them.
Schools
Three schools serve Jindera, and results are mixed — some outperforming peer-suburb schools, some below. Saint Mary MacKillop College Albury leads the pack.
- • 556 students across 3 schools (avg 185)
- • Sectors: 2 Independent, 1 Government
- • ICSEA 969-1074, median 1061 (above the national baseline of 1000)
- • Largest: Saint Mary MacKillop College Albury (216 students)
Primary
Combined
Walkability
Jindera is somewhat walkable on foot — at 52/100, a short cluster of errands work on foot but most trips still benefit from a car. Within the town there are 1 supermarket, 3 parks and 4 cafes to anchor that walking radius.
Public transport
Weekday and weekend service frequency across every stop inside Jindera.
- Peak (7-9am + 5-7pm)
- 22.8 arrivals/hr
- Off-peak weekday
- 5.8 arrivals/hr
- Saturday
- 0.0 arrivals/hr
- Median peak wait
- 1 min
- Span of service
- 8.7 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 Jindera.
- Full-fibre (FTTP) share
- 0%
- Premises covered
- 1,043
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
Greater Hume: 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 5 small areas inside this town and averages them into the single decile above. They fall into 4 different deciles — a wide range, so parts of this town rank well above the average and parts well below it.
Jindera is home to about 2,700 residents, with a median age of 38, broadly in line with the national figure. Median household income runs at $105,000 a year, with unemployment at 2.9%.
2021 Census · change since 2016
Population
2,721
Median Age
38
Median Household Income
$104,676/yr
Census Median Rent
$316/wk
Census Median Mortgage
$1,573/mo
Avg Household Size
3.0
Median Personal Income
$44,616/yr
Unemployment Rate
2.9%
Unoccupied Dwellings
6.8%
Total Dwellings
828
Owner-Occupier Rate
87.4%
Houses
97.8%
Rental Stress
15.7%
Mortgage Stress
18.0%
Work From Home
10.5%
Dwelling Types
Property Ownership
Demographics
- Born in Australia
- 85.7%
- English Spoken at Home
- 91.3%
- Employment Rate
- 64.4%
- Completed Year 12
- 30.9%
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.
18 residents (0.7%) 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.
4.6% of residents (115) lived in a capital city five years earlier, most of them in Melbourne (40).
Top places newcomers came from, as a share of the 2,515 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 503 people work here; 1,322 employed residents live here.
Mostly a place people commute from: 0.4 jobs per working resident. At least 57% of employed residents must work outside the town.
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 $992 a year through Greater Hume based on 2024 figures.
How this land is zoned
- Rural and farming 95%
- Residential 4%
- Zones under 1% 1%
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: Greater Hume
In the year to August 2026, 86 new dwellings were approved across Greater Hume. That mix is 81 houses and 5 units. Approvals are up 33.3% on the same period a year earlier.
Aboriginal Land Council
Aboriginal land in this area is administered by the Albury And District 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 7.3 µg/m³ in 2025 — below Australia's NEPM annual standard (8 µg/m³), slightly above the stricter WHO guideline (5 µg/m³). 2 days exceeded the daily threshold of 25 µg/m³.
PM10 averaged 18.1 µg/m³ · NO₂ averaged 0.64 pphm. Days over the limit in 2025: PM10 2 · NO₂ 0 · ozone 0.
From the Albury monitoring station, 12.2 km away.
Climate & Setting
from Albury Airport, 14.2 kmModerate rainfall — hot summers, cool winters.
- Elevation
- 239 m
- above sea level, at the town centre
- Near high-voltage lines
- 0.7% of addresses
- 9 within 100 m of an overhead line of 110 kV or more
- Annual rainfall
- 645 mm
- 74 rainy days
- Summer max (Jan)
- 33.3°C
- Winter min (Jul)
- 2.5°C
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.
Industrial Emissions Nearby
2 facilities within 5 km- 2.7 km
- 3.3 kmClay Brick ManufacturingTop reported: Particulate Matter ≤10.0 µm (PM10) · Carbon monoxide · Hydrochloric acid
EV adoption
In postcode 2642, 15 of 4,667 registered light vehicles are battery-electric on 31 January 2025. A further 1.2% (58 vehicles) are hybrid or plug-in hybrid, taking the non-petrol, non-diesel share to 1.6%.
Rooftop solar
In postcode 2642, 1,548 rooftop-solar systems totalling 11.6 MW have been installed since 2001, against 1,934 dwellings recorded in the 2021 Census. 139 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 $626,250 this is $26,250 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 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 Justin Clancy Liberal
Next state election: 13 March 2027.
| Year | Winner | Won with |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Justin Clancy LP | 66.3% |
| 2019 | Justin Clancy LP | 66.0% |
| 2015 | Greg Aplin LP | 63.2% |
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.
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- Nearest and zoned schools, with the walk from that door
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Common questions about Jindera
Is Jindera a safe place to live?
Recorded crime in Jindera is moderate (61/100, ranked against other NSW suburbs on offences per resident).
What natural hazards affect Jindera?
Jindera has a low recorded bushfire history (20/100, 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 Jindera a good place to live?
Jindera has a SuburbScan Liveability grade of B (51/100), 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 Jindera?
Jindera, NSW had a population of 2,721 at the 2021 Australian Bureau of Statistics census.
What is the postcode for Jindera, NSW?
The postcode for Jindera, NSW is 2642.
How far is Jindera from Sydney?
Jindera is 550 km from Sydney CBD by road, about 339 minutes by car in normal traffic. Distance is the most-direct driving route, not straight-line.
What is the median household income in Jindera?
At the 2021 ABS Census, median household income in Jindera was $104,676 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 Jindera?
The median advertised rent in Jindera is $570 a week for houses (6 listings), from rental listings over the last six months.
What is the median age in Jindera?
The median age of residents in Jindera was 38 at the 2021 ABS Census.
Is Jindera at risk of bushfire?
Jindera has a low recorded bushfire history (20/100). 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 Jindera?
There are 3 schools inside the Jindera boundary: 1 above, 1 at, and 1 below similar schools on NAPLAN, compared with same-state, same-type schools of similar socio-educational advantage (ICSEA).
Is Jindera walkable?
Jindera scores 52/100 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 Jindera?
The nearest government air-quality monitoring station to Jindera (Albury) recorded a 2025 annual mean PM2.5 of 7.3 µg/m³ and PM10 of 18.1 µg/m³. That puts Jindera 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 Jindera?
At the nearest Bureau of Meteorology station to Jindera, Albury Airport (14.2 km away), summer days average 33.3°C, winter nights 2.5°C, and 645 mm of rain a year over 74 rainy days over 2006-2026.
Is the First Home Owner Grant available in Jindera?
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 Jindera belong to?
Jindera sits within the Greater Hume local government area. Council rates, planning approvals, and waste collection fall under this LGA.
How much are council rates in Jindera?
The average residential rates bill through Greater Hume is $992 a year (2024). Every suburb in this LGA shares the same schedule — individual bills vary with land value.
How much is being built near Jindera?
Across Greater Hume, 86 new residential dwellings were approved in the year to August 2026 (source: ABS Building Approvals). That's up 33.3% 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 Jindera in?
Jindera 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
- 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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