Little Hartley NSW 2790

Little Hartley sits 139 km from Sydney CBD in New South Wales, around 2 hours 15 minutes by car. Census data records 629 residents with a median age of 49 and a median household income of $95,836 per year. By household income, education, and employment patterns, it ranks in the top 20% nationally. The locality grew 24.3% between 2016 and 2021. At the 2021 Census, households here paid a median rent of $390 per week and a median monthly mortgage of $1,733. Little Hartley is characterised by high bushfire risk. Walkability is low.

Is Little Hartley a good place to live?

Little Hartley scores a C (38/100) on SuburbScan's Liveability grade — strong on community, weaker on transit and safety.

Transit

Car-dependent

Walkability 0/100 · 139.2 km · 134 min drive to Sydney

Prices

Around the state median

Median $1.3M

Safety

High bushfire risk

Fire 83/100 · Crime 30/100

Community

Very advantaged

SEIFA decile 9/10 · median age 49 · 629 residents

C

Liveability Rating

38 / 100 · Ranked #1081 in NSW

Each bar is Little Hartley'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.

Schools quality no data
no schools mapped
Safety
29
Bushfire High · Crime Low

No flood data is published for New South Wales — a blank here means we hold no data, not that there is no risk.

Socio-economic
64
Very advantaged
Walkability
5
Very car-dependent
CBD access
44
139.2 km · 134 min drive to Sydney
How it's calculated: Safety rank 29 × 25% + Socio-economic rank 64 × 25% + Walkability rank 5 × 15% + CBD access rank 44 × 10% = 38 / 100. Missing components rebalance the remaining weights.

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Our score

38 / 100

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Median House Price

Public listings data

Little Hartley's house market is moving higher: the median sale price reached $1.3 million, about 4% above where it sat a year earlier.

Houses

$1,300,000

last 2 quarters
↑ +3.6% year-on-year

Based on 12 recorded sales in the last 24 months.

Typically sold in 57 days — median across 5 sales that recorded a listing period

By bedrooms

  • 4 bed 7 sales $1.3M

Land

$1,337,500

Based on only 4 sales — small sample, take as indicative.

Currently for Sale

Last 6 months

Houses in Little Hartley are currently listed at around $1.64 million on average. Based on 4 houses listed in the past six months.

$1.64M

4 houses listed in the last 6 months.

4 of the suburb's 218 dwellings (1.8%) were listed for sale in the last 6 months.

Rental Market

Rent agreed on new leases

Jul–Sep 2026
3-bed houses
$465/wk
56 bonds
+31% since 2021

Median weekly rent on bonds lodged for new tenancies across postcode 2790 (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 2025

134 Acceptable · the average rental household in this region would pay about 22% of its income on the median rent in postcode 2790.

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.

Is Little Hartley safe? Crime statistics

2025

Crime in Little Hartley sits in the low band, with 11 incidents recorded in 2025 — up roughly 22% on the prior year.

11 offences

22.2% since 2024
Property Damage 3 (27.3%)
Assault 2 (18.2%)
Theft 2 (18.2%)
Robbery 1 (9.1%)
Harassment & Stalking 1 (9.1%)
Drug Offences 1 (9.1%)
Sexual Offences 1 (9.1%)

Crime Trend

Serious Road Crashes

2021–2025

3 crashes

where someone was killed or admitted to hospital

Where they happened

Great Western Highway 3 (100.0%)

Crashes are counted where they happened, so a main road through the locality 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

Lithgow City Council has published 1 flood study on the NSW Flood Data Portal. The mapped flood areas are in those studies; SuburbScan does not hold them.

Schools

No schools in this locality boundary.

Walkability

Little Hartley is very car-dependent on foot — at 0/100, nearly all errands require a car.

0
out of 100
Very Car-Dependent
Public Transport within 1 km not measured
Schools within 1.5 km 0
Parks within 800 m 0
Supermarkets within 1 km 0
GPs within 1 km 0
Pharmacies within 1 km 0
Childcare within 1 km 0
Hospitals within 5 km 0

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.

NBN connectivity

The internet access technology available across NBN premises in Little Hartley.

30
connectivity score / 100
Most common
Fixed wireless
Full-fibre (FTTP) share
0%
Premises covered
280
Technology mix
Fixed wireless (WIRELESS) 97%
Satellite (Sky Muster) (SATELLITE) 3%

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

Supermarkets
None
Shopping Centres
None
Cafes & Restaurants
1 in locality
Parks & Reserves
3 in locality
Sport & Recreation
None
Beaches
None
Waterways
14 in locality
Childcare
None
GPs
None
Pharmacies
None
Hospitals
None
Police Stations
None
Banks & Bank@Post
None
Fuel Stations
None
EV Chargers
None
Pubs & Bars
None
Arts & Culture
1 in locality
Places of Worship
None

Lithgow: council population

The whole council area, not just Little Hartley · estimated residents
at 30 June 2025
Residents
20,693
-0.5% in a year
Change
-94
people since 2024
Density
4.6
people per km² across the council area
What drove the change
Natural increase
-81
births minus deaths
Net internal migration
-58
moves within Australia
Net overseas migration
+45
arrivals minus departures

The three add up to the change above. These are council-wide figures from the ABS, not figures for this locality alone — this locality's own population is in the census section above.

Socio-economic profile

ABS SEIFA · ranked against every suburb in Australia, and within the state
2021 census
Advantage and disadvantage
9/10
8/10 within NSW
income, education, jobs and housing together
Economic resources
10/10
9/10 within NSW
income against housing cost and household size
Education and occupation
8/10
7/10 within NSW
qualifications and job type, income excluded

Little Hartley is home to 629 residents, with a median age of 49, a touch above the national 38. Median household income runs at $96,000 a year, with unemployment at 1.0%.

2021 Census · change since 2016

Population

629

24.3% since 2016

Median Age

49

2.0% since 2016

Median Household Income

$95,836/yr

32.8% since 2016

Census Median Rent

$390/wk

30.0% since 2016

Census Median Mortgage

$1,733/mo

11.1% since 2016

Avg Household Size

2.6

8.3% since 2016

Median Personal Income

$39,104/yr

11.1% since 2016

Unemployment Rate

1.0%

75.0% since 2016

Unoccupied Dwellings

16.5%

0.6% since 2016

Total Dwellings

218

13.0% since 2016

Owner-Occupier Rate

94.4%

1.6% since 2016

Houses

100.9%

4.7% since 2016

Rental Stress

21.2%

1.9% since 2016

Mortgage Stress

21.7%

33.0% since 2016

Work From Home

32.9%

159.1% since 2016

Dwelling Types

Houses 220 (100.9%)
Townhouses 4 (1.8%)

Property Ownership

Owned Outright 107 (49.8%)
Mortgage 96 (44.7%)
Renting 12 (5.6%)

Demographics

Born in Australia
76.3%
English Spoken at Home
84.4%
Employment Rate
55.5%
9.5% since 2016
Completed Year 12
42.9%

Occupations

Professionals 71 (23.5%)
Managers 47 (15.6%)
Technicians & Trades 44 (14.6%)
Clerical & Administrative 40 (13.2%)
Community & Personal Service 35 (11.6%)
Labourers 25 (8.3%)
Sales 24 (7.9%)
Machinery Operators & Drivers 19 (6.3%)

Religion

Christianity 289 (45.9%)
No Religion 250 (39.7%)
Hinduism 4 (0.6%)
Other Religions 4 (0.6%)
Buddhism 3 (0.5%)

Country of Birth (overseas)

Largest overseas birthplaces, as a share of all residents.

England 31 (4.9%)
New Zealand 8 (1.3%)
China 4 (0.6%)
Germany 4 (0.6%)
Greece 3 (0.5%)

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.

2016-2021 0 (0.0%)
2011-2015 9 (1.4%)
2001-2010 0 (0.0%)
1991-2000 14 (2.2%)
1981-1990 15 (2.4%)
Before 1981 47 (7.5%)

0 residents (0.0%) 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.

24.1% of residents (145) lived in a capital city five years earlier, most of them in Sydney (141).

Sydney - Outer West and Blue Mountains 88 (14.6%)

Top places newcomers came from, as a share of the 601 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.

Croatian 5 (0.8%)

Age Distribution

0-4 28 (4.5%)
5-14 63 (10.0%)
15-19 34 (5.4%)
20-24 29 (4.6%)
25-34 63 (10.0%)
35-44 70 (11.1%)
45-54 91 (14.5%)
55-64 128 (20.3%)
65-74 83 (13.2%)
75-84 40 (6.4%)
85+ 13 (2.1%)

Family & Household Composition

Couple Families 78 (60.9%)
Lone Person 36 (28.1%)
One Parent Families 14 (10.9%)

Commute to Work

Car (driver) 154 (62.6%)
Worked from Home 81 (32.9%)
Car (passenger) 11 (4.5%)

3% of employed residents work in a capital's city centre (10 of 302).

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.

Education

Certificate III & IV 139 (22.1%)
Bachelor Degree 78 (12.4%)
Advanced Diploma / Diploma 60 (9.5%)
Postgraduate Degree 29 (4.6%)
Graduate Diploma / Certificate 18 (2.9%)

Cars per Dwelling

1 car 37 (17.2%)
2 cars 99 (46.0%)
3 cars 44 (20.5%)
4+ cars 34 (15.8%)

Council Rates

Lithgow
FY 2024-25

Households face an average residential rates bill of $1,150 a year through Lithgow based on 2024 figures.

Avg residential rate
$1,150/yr
7% below the NSW average of $1,230 · median of 128 councils
Valuation basis
Unimproved Value
land only

How this land is zoned

Share of Little Hartley's area by planning zone
2026-09
  • Rural and farming 52%
  • Residential 32%
  • Environmental 14%
  • Infrastructure and transport 3%

Zoning sets what may be built, not what is there today. A single address can sit in a different zone to the locality around it — the property page shows the zone for one address.

Building Approvals: Lithgow

The whole council area, not just Little Hartley · new residential dwellings
to 2026-08

In the year to August 2026, 55 new dwellings were approved across Lithgow. That mix is 47 houses and 8 units.

Trailing 12 months
55dwellings
Houses
47
detached dwellings
Units
8
townhouses + apartments

Aboriginal Land Council

Aboriginal land in this area is administered by the Bathurst 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.

Climate & Setting

from Mount Boyce AWS, 8.7 km

High rainfall — warm summers, cold winters with occasional frost.

Elevation
758 m
above sea level, at the locality centre
Near high-voltage lines
2.8% of addresses
11 within 100 m of an overhead line of 110 kV or more
Annual rainfall
1,147 mm
112 rainy days
Summer max (Jan)
23.8°C
1 days ≥ 35°C
Winter min (Jul)
3.2°C
12 frost days ≤ 0°C

Elevation is the ground at the locality 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

EV adoption

0.5%
of light vehicles are electric
Up from 0.03% in 2021
+0.1 points this year

In postcode 2790, 59 of 13,047 registered light vehicles are battery-electric on 31 January 2025. A further 2.4% (316 vehicles) are hybrid or plug-in hybrid, taking the non-petrol, non-diesel share to 2.9%.

Electric share, year by year
2021
0.03%
2022
0.07%
2023
0.18%
2024
0.31%
2025
0.45%

Rooftop solar

36
systems per 100 dwellings
Averaging 7.0 kW each

In postcode 2790, 2,794 rooftop-solar systems totalling 19.6 MW have been installed since 2001, against 7,661 dwellings recorded in the 2021 Census. 203 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.

Systems installed, year by year
2019
229
2020
249
2021
234
2022
258
2023
311
2024
189
2025
189
2026
102

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).

Verify eligibility with Revenue NSW

Mortgage repayments

I'm looking for
Deposit
$
%
Monthly repayment
$6,780
Loan amount
$1,040,000
Total interest over 30 years
$1,400,808

1 mortgage broker is registered in postcode 2790.

Deposit
$260,000
Stamp duty
$52,787
Cash needed at settlement
$312,787

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.

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

Division of Calare

Currently held by Andrew Gee Independent

Year Winner 2PP ALP 2PP LNP Swing
2025 Andrew Gee 37.7% 62.3% +3.2
2022 Andrew Gee 34.5% 65.5% +2.2
2019 Andrew Gee 36.7% 63.3% +1.5

Results are per division — federal electoral boundaries are redrawn periodically, so the history reflects this division's past, not necessarily the exact locality's voters across time.

State Electorate

Bathurst District

Currently held by Paul Toole The Nationals

Next state election: 13 March 2027.

Year Winner Won with
2023 Paul Toole NP 73.6%
2019 Paul Toole NP 67.9%
2015 Paul Toole NP 65.8%

Results are per district. Districts were last redrawn in 2021, so results from before then describe the district of that name, not necessarily this locality's voters. Results: © State of New South Wales through the NSW Electoral Commission, CC BY 4.0, adapted.

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Common questions about Little Hartley

Is Little Hartley a safe place to live?

Recorded crime in Little Hartley is low (30/100, ranked against other NSW suburbs on offences per resident).

What natural hazards affect Little Hartley?

Little Hartley has a high recorded bushfire history (83/100, ranked against every Australian suburb with any fire history). These are locality-wide figures; check the address, as flood and bushfire exposure change street by street.

Is Little Hartley a good place to live?

Little Hartley has a SuburbScan Liveability grade of C (38/100), 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 Little Hartley?

Little Hartley, NSW had a population of 629 at the 2021 Australian Bureau of Statistics census.

What is the postcode for Little Hartley, NSW?

The postcode for Little Hartley, NSW is 2790.

How far is Little Hartley from Sydney?

Little Hartley is 139 km from Sydney CBD by road, about 134 minutes by car in normal traffic. Distance is the most-direct driving route, not straight-line.

What is the median household income in Little Hartley?

At the 2021 ABS Census, median household income in Little Hartley was $95,836 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 Little Hartley?

There are too few current rental listings in Little Hartley for a reliable median. At the 2021 ABS Census the median weekly rent was $390, across all dwelling types.

What is the median age in Little Hartley?

The median age of residents in Little Hartley was 49 at the 2021 ABS Census.

Is Little Hartley at risk of bushfire?

Little Hartley has a high recorded bushfire history (83/100). The score comes from Geoscience Australia's historical bushfire boundaries, with planned burns excluded: the area of recorded fires touching the locality 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.

What is the weather like in Little Hartley?

At the nearest Bureau of Meteorology station to Little Hartley, Mount Boyce AWS (8.7 km away), summer days average 23.8°C, winter nights 3.2°C, 1,147 mm of rain a year over 112 rainy days, and 1 days a year above 35°C over 2006-2026.

Is the First Home Owner Grant available in Little Hartley?

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 Little Hartley belong to?

Little Hartley sits within the Lithgow local government area. Council rates, planning approvals, and waste collection fall under this LGA.

How much are council rates in Little Hartley?

The average residential rates bill through Lithgow is $1,150 a year (2024). Every suburb in this LGA shares the same schedule — individual bills vary with land value.

How much is being built near Little Hartley?

Across Lithgow, 55 new residential dwellings were approved in the year to August 2026 (source: ABS Building Approvals). These are LGA-level totals — every suburb in the council shares the same figure.

Which federal electorate is Little Hartley in?

Little Hartley sits within the federal Division of Calare, currently held by Andrew Gee (Independent).

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