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Paterson is a NSW suburb in Maitland LGA, matched to postcode 2421 — also covering Fishers Hill, Summer Hill, Tocal and nearby localities. New rental bonds in that postcode had a median weekly rent of $650 in 2025, up 18.2% from $550 in 2024. That is about 6% below the NSW median of $695. Bond medians describe new lodgements with Fair Trading, not every current lease in the suburb. Paterson recorded 56 criminal incidents in the 12 months to March 2026, up 80.6% from 31 a year earlier. 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 $650 a week. Half of new bonds sat between $530 and $770 a week. Fair Trading recorded 17 new bonds in the postcode in 2025. Over 2021–2025 the postcode median moved from $525 to $650 a week. Because several suburbs share the postcode, the rent charts are a postcode picture, not a street-level one. Property offences totalled 13 and violent-related offences 11. Liquor offences made up the largest published share (29 incidents, 52%). Next was Theft (10). 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. Sources: NSW Fair Trading rental bond lodgements, calendar 2025; NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research, Apr 2025 – Mar 2026.
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+18.2% year-on-year
+80.6% year-on-year
These figures describe rental bonds recorded across postcode 2421, not an individual property quote.
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Postcode-wide figure for 2421
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Postcode-wide figure for 2421
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