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Merrygoen is a NSW suburb in Brewarrina LGA, matched to postcode 2831 — also covering Armatree, Balladoran, Brenda and nearby localities. New rental bonds in that postcode had a median weekly rent of $360 in 2025, up 20.0% from $300 in 2024. That is about 48% below the NSW median of $695. Bond medians describe new lodgements with Fair Trading, not every current lease in the suburb. Merrygoen recorded 23 criminal incidents in the 12 months to March 2026. These are police-recorded incidents, not convictions, and they are not adjusted for how many people live or visit here. House bonds typically leased at $380 a week. Half of new bonds sat between $335 and $435 a week. Fair Trading recorded 11 new bonds in the postcode in 2025. Over 2021–2025 the postcode median moved from $275 to $360 a week. Because several suburbs share the postcode, the rent charts are a postcode picture, not a street-level one. Property offences totalled 7 and violent-related offences 7. Theft made up the largest published share (5 incidents, 22%). Next was Assault (5). The crime series is coded to this suburb name; the rent series, where shown, is the whole postcode. The two windows are not identical: rents are calendar year, recorded crime is the 12 months to March 2026. Some person-offence categories are not itemised here because suburb geography under-counts them. Do not rank this suburb as more or less dangerous from the raw incident total. Sources: NSW Fair Trading rental bond lodgements, calendar 2025; NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research, Apr 2025 – Mar 2026.
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+20% year-on-year
+109.1% year-on-year
These figures describe rental bonds recorded across postcode 2831, not an individual property quote.
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Postcode-wide figure for 2831
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Postcode-wide figure for 2831
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