Gingin suburb profile
Gingin is a small country town in the Shire of Gingin on WA’s coastal plain, serving as a service centre for surrounding farms and lifestyle blocks and appealing to people who want a rural pace within reach of the coast. The town has a compact main street with everyday shops and community facilities, a mix of older cottages and larger rural properties, and a steady presence of hobby farmers, equestrian owners and retirees. Visitors come for the Gravity Discovery Centre and observatory, and residents value the surrounding farmland, native bushland and easy road links to coastal towns and regional services.
Gingin property market performance
Like many smaller suburbs, Gingin has relatively few recent property sales, so there isn't enough data to publish a reliable median house or unit price. The figures that are available show house values fell sharply, down 60.6% over the last 12 months.
Over the last 3 months, 7 houses sold, and houses sold in a median of 16 days over the last 12 months.
| Houses | Units | |
|---|---|---|
Median price Past 3 months | N/A | N/A |
Change in value Past 12 months | -60.6% | N/A |
Sold Past 3 months | 7 | N/A |
Median days on market Past 12 months | 16 | N/A |
Average rent Past 12 months | N/A | N/A |
Change in rent Past 12 months | N/A | N/A |
Gingin demographics
Gingin is a small community of 902 people with a median age of 40. The median total household income is $1,603 a week, roughly $83,356 a year.
Family composition is strongly weighted towards couple families. Couple families with children are the largest group at 44.1%, and couple families without children are close behind at 42.0%, together making up 86.1% of families. One-parent families account for 12.2% and other families 1.6%.
Homes in Gingin are predominantly owner-occupied: 34.1% are owned outright and 41.1% are owned with a mortgage, a combined 75.2%, while about 24.7% of dwellings are rented.
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