Question 1

Is Nhill a nice place to live?

Accepted Answer

Nhill is a compact rural town on the Western Highway that acts as the service centre for surrounding grain and sheep country. It has a traditional main street, modest single-storey weatherboard and brick houses near the centre, and farmsteads on the outskirts. The community of 2,401 people has a median age of 47 and is weighted towards couple families, with couples (with and without children) making up 85.1% of all families. Most homes are owner occupied, with 76.3% owned outright or with a mortgage.

Everyday life in Nhill centres on schools, sporting clubs and local services, and Little Desert National Park and native mallee country are close by for bushwalking and outdoor recreation. Recent local projects include a Grampians Mental Health and Wellbeing Connect centre, a one-room kindergarten at Nhill College with about 33 kinder places, and staged upgrades to parks, sporting facilities and a multicultural precinct community hub. That mix tends to suit farmers, local tradespeople and families who prefer a quieter, service-centred rural town; whether Nhill fits you depends on what you are looking for.

Question 2

Is it expensive to live in Nhill?

Accepted Answer

On the figures for Nhill, a typical local household earned $1,296 a week at the last Census. With house rents around $340 a week, rent would take about 26% of that weekly household income, a moderate share. The median house price of $266,000 works out to about 3.9 times a typical local household's annual income at the last Census, which sits under the four-times mark and is relatively affordable against those local incomes. If you're renting rather than buying, the rent share is the figure that most directly affects day-to-day affordability.

Everyone's financial situation is different, so it's important to consider your own circumstances when deciding which suburb is right for you.

Question 3

Is Nhill a good place to invest?

Accepted Answer

House rents in Nhill jumped 11.5% over the past year, while house values rose a solid 5.2% over the same period. That means rental income for houses increased faster than house prices in the last 12 months. If you're weighing Nhill as an investment, consider which matters more to you: stronger recent rent growth or the more modest capital gain.

This information has been prepared without taking your objectives, needs and overall financial situation into account. It is not meant to be a substitute for professional financial advice. For this reason, you should consider the appropriateness of the information and, if necessary, seek appropriate professional advice.

	Houses	Units
Median price Past 3 months	$266K	N/A
Change in value Past 12 months	5.2%	N/A
Sold Past 3 months	10	N/A
Median days on market Past 12 months	53	N/A
Average rent Past 12 months	$340	N/A
Change in rent Past 12 months	11.5%	N/A

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