South Albury NSW 2640
South Albury sits 554 km from Sydney CBD in New South Wales, around 5 hours 40 minutes by car. Census data records 1,372 residents with a median age of 40 and a median household income of $59,644 per year. On socioeconomic measures it sits in the bottom 20% nationally. The 2021 Census recorded a median rent of $200 per week and a median monthly mortgage of $1,408. The area shows high crime risk and no recorded bushfire exposure. 1 school sits within the suburb boundary, and walkability is moderate.
Is South Albury a good suburb?
South Albury scores a C (32/100) on SuburbScan's Liveability grade — weaker on safety and community.
Mixed results
1 school
Some car dependence
Walkability 58/100 · 553.8 km · 339 min drive to Sydney
Around the state median
Median $682K · Cheaper than 75% of NSW
High crime risk
Fire 0/100 · Crime 96/100
Highly disadvantaged
SEIFA decile 2/10 · median age 40 · 1,372 residents
Liveability Rating
32 / 100 · Ranked #1229 in NSWEach bar is South Albury'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 South Albury?
Local knowledge beats any dataset. Rate it and see what other residents think.
Our score
32 / 100
From schools, safety and socio-economic data — not opinion.
Residents say
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Median House Price
Public listings dataSouth Albury's house market is moving higher: the median sale price reached $682,000, about 1% above where it sat a year earlier.
Houses
$682,500
Based on 38 recorded sales in the last 24 months.
Typically sold in 59 days — median across 8 sales that recorded a listing period
By bedrooms
- 2 bed 5 sales $620K
- 3 bed 20 sales $665K
- 4 bed 11 sales $700K
Units
$308,334
Based on 19 recorded sales in the last 24 months.
Typically sold in 58 days — median across 4 sales that recorded a listing period
By bedrooms
- 1 bed 6 sales $283K
- 2 bed 10 sales $295K
Currently for Sale
Last 6 monthsHouses in South Albury are currently listed at around $690,000 on average. Based on 4 houses listed in the past six months.
$690K
4 houses listed in the last 6 months.
5 of the suburb's 685 dwellings (0.7%) were listed for sale in the last 6 months.
Rental Market
Advertised rents · last 6 monthsHouses in South Albury rent for around $550 a week on average, based on 5 houses listed for rent in the past six months.
Houses
$550/wk
5 houses advertised for rent in the last 6 months.
Units
$380/wk
7 units advertised for rent in the last 6 months.
12 rentals advertised against an estimated 403 rented homes (3.0%) in the last 6 months.
Rent agreed on new leases
Jul–Sep 2026- 3-bed houses
- $530/wk
- 143 bonds
- +40% since 2021
- 2-bed units
- $400/wk
- 54 bonds
- +48% since 2021
Median weekly rent on bonds lodged for new tenancies across postcode 2640 (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 2025114 Moderately unaffordable · the average rental household in this region would pay about 26% of its income on the median rent in postcode 2640.
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$550/week ($29,000 a year) on a $690,000 median
Based on a small sample (4 listings) — indicative only.
Not enough unit sales and rentals in the window to calculate a yield.
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 South Albury safe? Crime statistics
2025Crime in South Albury sits in the high band, with 289 incidents recorded in 2025 — down about 5% on the prior year.
289 offences
5.2% since 2024Crime Trend
Serious Road Crashes
2021–20256 crashes
where someone was killed or admitted to hospital
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
Albury City Council has published 9 flood studies on the NSW Flood Data Portal. The mapped flood areas are in those studies; SuburbScan does not hold them.
Schools
One school serve South Albury, and the cohort is trailing peer-suburb performance.
- • 872 students in one school (avg 872)
Secondary
Walkability
South Albury is somewhat walkable on foot — at 58/100, a short cluster of errands work on foot but most trips still benefit from a car.
Public transport
Weekday and weekend service frequency across every stop inside South Albury.
- Peak (7-9am + 5-7pm)
- 8.8 arrivals/hr
- Off-peak weekday
- 6.0 arrivals/hr
- Saturday
- 5.3 arrivals/hr
- Median peak wait
- 1 min
- Span of service
- 11.4 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 South Albury.
- Full-fibre (FTTP) share
- 36%
- Premises covered
- 1,180
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
Albury: 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
South Albury is home to about 1,400 residents, with a median age of 40, broadly in line with the national figure. Median household income runs at $60,000 a year, with unemployment at 5.3%.
2021 Census · change since 2016
Population
1,372
Median Age
40
Median Household Income
$59,644/yr
Census Median Rent
$200/wk
Census Median Mortgage
$1,408/mo
Avg Household Size
1.8
Median Personal Income
$40,300/yr
Unemployment Rate
5.3%
Unoccupied Dwellings
16.9%
Total Dwellings
685
Owner-Occupier Rate
41.1%
Houses
50.7%
Rental Stress
17.4%
Mortgage Stress
28.3%
Work From Home
11.5%
Dwelling Types
Property Ownership
37 rented from a state or territory housing authority and 25 from a community housing provider, as a share of the 389 rented dwellings above — not of all dwellings.
Demographics
- Born in Australia
- 75.1%
- English Spoken at Home
- 80.0%
- Employment Rate
- 59.3%
- Completed Year 12
- 43.3%
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.
53 residents (3.9%) 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.
5.4% of residents (70) lived in a capital city five years earlier, most of them in Melbourne (43).
Top places newcomers came from, as a share of the 1,307 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 (5 of 716).
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 1,733 people work here; 716 employed residents live here.
A jobs hub: 2.4 jobs for every working resident. At least 59% 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 $1,574 a year through Albury based on 2024 figures.
How this land is zoned
- Rural and farming 36%
- Residential 21%
- Parks and recreation 16%
- Environmental 14%
- Industrial 10%
- Infrastructure and transport 4%
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: Albury
In the year to August 2026, 423 new dwellings were approved across Albury. That mix is 361 houses and 62 units. Approvals are up 14.3% 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, 5.5 km away.
Climate & Setting
from Wodonga, 2.4 kmModerate rainfall.
- Elevation
- 155 m
- above sea level, at the suburb centre
- Annual rainfall
- 700 mm
- 80 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
11 facilities within 5 km- 2.4 kmPetroleum Product WholesalingTop reported: Total Volatile Organic Compounds · n-Hexane · Toluene (methylbenzene)
- 2.6 kmSoft Drink, Cordial and Syrup ManufacturingTop reported: Total Volatile Organic Compounds · Ethanol
- 2.6 kmSewerage and Drainage ServicesTop reported: Ammonia (total) · Total Nitrogen · Total Phosphorus
- 3.1 kmIron and Steel CastingTop reported: Particulate Matter ≤10.0 µm (PM10) · Total Volatile Organic Compounds · Oxides of Nitrogen
- 3.7 kmMeat ProcessingTop reported: Oxides of Nitrogen · Carbon monoxide · Total Volatile Organic Compounds
EV adoption
In postcode 2640, 190 of 30,212 registered light vehicles are battery-electric on 31 January 2025. A further 3.4% (1,038 vehicles) are hybrid or plug-in hybrid, taking the non-petrol, non-diesel share to 4.1%.
Rooftop solar
In postcode 2640, 9,204 rooftop-solar systems totalling 68.1 MW have been installed since 2001, against 16,954 dwellings recorded in the 2021 Census. 731 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
6 mortgage brokers are registered in postcode 2640.
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 $682,500 this is $82,500 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 suburb'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 suburb'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 South Albury
Is South Albury a safe place to live?
Recorded crime in South Albury is high (96/100, 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 South Albury?
South Albury has no recorded bushfire history. These are suburb-wide figures; check the address, as flood and bushfire exposure change street by street.
Is South Albury a good place to live?
South Albury has a SuburbScan Liveability grade of C (32/100), 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 South Albury?
South Albury, NSW had a population of 1,372 at the 2021 Australian Bureau of Statistics census.
What is the postcode for South Albury, NSW?
The postcode for South Albury, NSW is 2640.
How far is South Albury from Sydney?
South Albury is 554 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 South Albury?
At the 2021 ABS Census, median household income in South Albury was $59,644 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 South Albury?
The median advertised rent in South Albury is $550 a week for houses (5 listings) and $380 a week for units (7 listings), from rental listings over the last six months.
What is the median age in South Albury?
The median age of residents in South Albury was 40 at the 2021 ABS Census.
How are the schools in South Albury?
There is 1 school inside the South Albury boundary: 1 below similar schools on NAPLAN, compared with same-state, same-type schools of similar socio-educational advantage (ICSEA).
Is South Albury walkable?
South Albury scores 58/100 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 South Albury?
The nearest government air-quality monitoring station to South Albury (Albury) recorded a 2025 annual mean PM2.5 of 7.3 µg/m³ and PM10 of 18.1 µg/m³. That puts South Albury 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 South Albury?
At the nearest Bureau of Meteorology station to South Albury, Wodonga (2.4 km away), 700 mm of rain a year over 80 rainy days over 2006-2026.
Is the First Home Owner Grant available in South Albury?
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 South Albury belong to?
South Albury sits within the Albury local government area. Council rates, planning approvals, and waste collection fall under this LGA.
How much are council rates in South Albury?
The average residential rates bill through Albury is $1,574 a year (2024). Every suburb in this LGA shares the same schedule — individual bills vary with land value.
How much is being built near South Albury?
Across Albury, 423 new residential dwellings were approved in the year to August 2026 (source: ABS Building Approvals). That's up 14.3% 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 South Albury in?
South Albury 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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