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What it costs to live in Upper Lachlan, NSW
Upper Lachlan council area, New South Wales. About 9,005 people lived here in 2025. Here's what rent, power, fuel, the pokies and crime look like, and how each one sits against the rest of New South Wales.
Rent
$488
A week. That's the median rent on new leases in the June quarter 2026 (from a small number of leases).
Pokies losses
The regulator reports this area with its neighbours, or kept some months private, so there's no figure for Upper Lachlan on its own.
See what we knowElectricity
$2,604
A year on the default offer in the Essential Energy network area, which covers most of Upper Lachlan, for 4,600 kWh. That's the most a standing offer can cost. A typical plan here costs $2,396.
See electricity pricesUnleaded petrol
199c
A litre, on average, at 4 stations here over the year to September 2026. That's 7c more than the NSW average.
See when fuel is cheapestCrime police recorded
Violent crime, 2025–26
Police recorded 59 of these in Upper Lachlan. That's 665 for every 100,000 people, or 56% of the NSW average. Five years before, in 2020–21, it was 365, so it has gone up 82%.
See each year
| Year | Recorded | Per 100,000 | NSW per 100,000 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025–26 | 59 | 665 | 1,183 |
| 2024–25 | 58 | 654 | 1,171 |
| 2023–24 | 53 | 597 | 1,156 |
| 2022–23 | 61 | 701 | 1,084 |
| 2021–22 | 34 | 398 | 981 |
| 2020–21 | 31 | 365 | 1,055 |
| 2019–20 | 36 | 431 | 1,009 |
| 2018–19 | 34 | 422 | 1,008 |
| 2017–18 | 33 | 415 | 999 |
| 2016–17 | 26 | 329 | 1,000 |
Property crime, 2025–26
Police recorded 95 of these in Upper Lachlan. That's 1,070 for every 100,000 people, or 66% of the NSW average. Five years before, in 2020–21, it was 648, so it has gone up 65%.
See each year
| Year | Recorded | Per 100,000 | NSW per 100,000 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025–26 | 95 | 1,070 | 1,622 |
| 2024–25 | 63 | 710 | 1,589 |
| 2023–24 | 74 | 834 | 1,651 |
| 2022–23 | 67 | 770 | 1,572 |
| 2021–22 | 63 | 737 | 1,381 |
| 2020–21 | 55 | 648 | 1,544 |
| 2019–20 | 55 | 658 | 1,826 |
| 2018–19 | 81 | 1,005 | 2,022 |
| 2017–18 | 81 | 1,018 | 2,066 |
| 2016–17 | 81 | 1,024 | 2,184 |
This is crime that police recorded in the area over a year, July to June. Lots of crime is never reported, and a rise can mean police are looking harder, not just that more crime happened. Each state counts crime its own way, so only compare a council with its own state.
Suburbs in Upper Lachlan
Who lives in each one, their homes and how they get around.
- Bannaby
- Bannister
- Bellmount Forest (part)
- Bevendale
- Biala
- Big Hill
- Bigga
- Binda
- Blakney Creek
- Brayton (part)
- Breadalbane
- Broadway
- Chatsbury
- Collector (part)
- Crooked Corner
- Crookwell
- Cullerin
- Curraweela
- Dalton
- Fullerton
- Golspie
- Grabben Gullen
- Greenwich Park (part)
- Gunning
- Gurrundah
- Jerrawa
- Lade Vale
- Laggan
- Lerida
- Limerick
- Lost River
- Merrill
- Middle Arm (part)
- Myrtleville
- Narrawa
- Oolong
- Peelwood
- Pejar
- Pomeroy (part)
- Richlands
- Roslyn
- Stonequarry
- Taralga
- Tarlo (part)
- Tuena
- Wayo (part)
- Wheeo
- Wiarborough
- Wollogorang (part)
- Wombeyan Caves (part)
- Woodhouselee (part)
- Yalbraith
Look further
- Rents across Australia: what tenants really pay by suburb and postcode.
- Pokies losses by council: where the most is lost, in four states.
- Fuel prices: the price cycle and the cheapest day to fill up.
- Compare Upper Lachlan with another area, side by side.
- Look up another area.
Sources: recorded crime, NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research. Population: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Regional population, CC BY 4.0. Pokies losses: the state's gambling regulator (see the pokies page for its credit). Rent: state rental bond data (see the rent pages). Electricity: Default Market Offer 2026–27: © Commonwealth of Australia (Australian Energy Regulator), CC BY 4.0; retailers' plans under the Consumer Data Right. Fuel: NSW Government FuelCheck, CC BY-SA, so the fuel figure can be reused under the same licence.