Median priceⓘLast 12 months
995kk
↑ +6.3% YoY
Most of Parkes's recent activity is unit rentals, with 73 leases at $790 a week (up), renting out in about 25 days (up from 18 days last year), among the country's strongest unit rent gains, with 2-bedroom the most common at around 60%.
Unit sales are nearly as big, with 65 sales at around $995K (up), taking about 47 days to sell (down from 49 days last year).
Who lives hereA mixed-age suburb, split fairly evenly between renters and owners.
House covers houses, duplexes, semi-detached and terraces; Unit covers apartments, units, townhouses and villas.
Census data sourced from the Australian Bureau of Statistics — © Commonwealth of Australia, 2021 Census of Population and Housing and Socio-Economic Indexes for Areas (SEIFA) 2021 · Shares, ratios and percentiles shown are Micromarkets transformations of that data · licensed CC BY 4.0.
The age structure, household make-up, and cultural fabric of the people who call this suburb home.
Share of all residents by 5-year band · hover a band for the count + split
Census data sourced from the Australian Bureau of Statistics — © Commonwealth of Australia, 2021 Census of Population and Housing · Shares, ratios and percentiles shown are Micromarkets transformations of that data · licensed CC BY 4.0.
What it costs to live here, who owns versus rents, and the shape of the housing stock.
Census data sourced from the Australian Bureau of Statistics — © Commonwealth of Australia, 2021 Census of Population and Housing · Shares, ratios and percentiles shown are Micromarkets transformations of that data · licensed CC BY 4.0.
Incomes, employment, and the occupation mix of the people who live here.
Census data sourced from the Australian Bureau of Statistics — © Commonwealth of Australia, 2021 Census of Population and Housing · Shares, ratios and percentiles shown are Micromarkets transformations of that data · licensed CC BY 4.0.
How people get to work, and how car-dependent the suburb is — the clearest tell of inner-urban versus outer-suburban living.
Census data sourced from the Australian Bureau of Statistics — © Commonwealth of Australia, 2021 Census of Population and Housing · Shares, ratios and percentiles shown are Micromarkets transformations of that data · licensed CC BY 4.0.
Education · ACARA My School 2025
No school inside Parkes itself — the closest options around it are shown. Distances are straight-line from the suburb centre and are not enrolment catchments — always confirm zones with the school.
ICSEA is ACARA’s official measure of a school’s socio-educational advantage — based mainly on parents’ education and occupation, plus the school’s location and student mix.
Why are some State Rank and star ratings blank? Schools can choose not to publish their results. In practice, schools that score well above their state average almost always publish theirs — so a blank rating more often reflects a school opting out than a top result being hidden. Academic results also tend to rise with ICSEA Rank, so higher-ICSEA schools more often carry a strong State Rank as well.
School profile and ICSEA data sourced from ACARA — © Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (data year 2025) · State Rank & star columns are Micromarkets-compiled academic ratings from publicly available school results · Distances are straight-line from the suburb centre, not catchments.
How settled or transient the community is — and where newcomers came from.
Headline price, rent, yield and time on market for Parkes — choose a property type and size below.
Every segment this suburb tracks — sales and rentals side by side, ranked by total activity over the last twelve months.
Where each segment sits against its peers in the chosen geography — past the midline means it's outperforming the rest.
Market demandHow fast this market is moving — a velocity index built from trailing-year transaction volume and median days on market. Strong volume lifts the score; days on market drags it down, with the drag growing sharply once listings start lingering. Ranked against peers in the chosen geography.
What it costs each week to own a property versus renting the same one — positive means buying carries the premium, negative means rent covers the mortgage.
Two questions on one chart — how strong demand is right now, and which way it's heading year-on-year.
Eight diagnostic views cutting the data a different way each time — Parkes in blue, peers in colour.
How long current listings would take to clear at the recent rate of sales or leases. Critical shortage and Oversupply only fire at the genuine tails of the national distribution — sales tip in under 0.7 months, rentals far faster, under 0.3.
Out of every property transaction in this suburb, what share are sales versus leases — each point a rolling twelve-month window.
Each tape traces one metric across sixty months for the selected segment — every point a trailing twelve-month figure, matching the headline KPIs above.
Every market within reach of Parkes, ranked by distance — each compared against this suburb's Units · Total segment so divergence reads at a glance.
ACT markets whose Units · Total segment behaves most like Parkes's on the buy side — ranked by a like-for-like blend of price, yield, days on market, ownership cost and cycle phase.
Comparable sales markets to Parkes include Macquarie (ACT 2614), Nicholls (ACT 2913), Scullin (ACT 2614), Yarralumla (ACT 2600), Casey (ACT 2913), Mawson (ACT 2607), Amaroo (ACT 2914) and Bonython (ACT 2905). Each link opens that suburb's full market report.
12 data-driven answers about Parkes's property market — every one computed from the metrics above.
The median unit price in Parkes, ACT 2600 is $995k as of June 2026, based on 65 sales over the past 12 months. Units have moved +6.3% year-on-year.
Gross rental yield in Parkes is 4.10% for units as of June 2026, compared with the ACT unit median of 5.20%. Gross yield is annual rent divided by purchase price — it doesn't account for ownership costs like council rates, strata, maintenance or vacancy.
As of June 2026, Parkes medians by bedroom count:
| Property | 1 bed | 2 bed | 3 bed | 4 bed | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Units | $599k | $814k | $1.76M | — | $995k |
Figures cover only segments with enough recent transactions to be statistically meaningful; sparse segments are excluded.
At the median Parkes unit ($995k purchase, $790/week rent), weekly mortgage repayments sit at roughly $1101 — about $311 more per week than renting. That gap is the ownership premium. Figures assume 80% LVR, a 6.0% interest rate and a 30-year principal-and-interest loan.
. Units sit at 3.3 months. Tighter supply typically corresponds to faster letting and upward pressure on rents.
The most-transacted segment in Parkes over the 12 months to June 2026 is 2 bed units with 13 sales. 1 bed units come second at 9 sales. The 'Most popular' panel above breaks down the top segments with weekly mortgage, rent and ownership-cost detail.
Parkes recorded 0 house sales and 65 unit sales over the 12 months to June 2026 — a combined 65 transactions. On the rental side, 0 houses and 73 units were leased. Segments with statistically thin samples are excluded from displayed figures.
Parkes, ACT 2600 is home to 0 residents (ABS Census 2021). The median resident age is 32, and the average household holds 0.0 people. The "Who lives here" section above breaks the community down by age, life stage and tenure.
The median household in Parkes earns $0 per week — roughly $0 a year (ABS Census 2021). Median personal income runs $225/week. Income, rent-to-income and mortgage-to-income context sits in the "Who lives here" section above.
Parkes has 60 schools within reach — including Campbell Primary School, Telopea Park School, St Thomas More's Primary School. The Schools section above maps each one with sector, year range, enrolment, Micromarkets-compiled academic ratings and ICSEA (ACARA).
Parkes, ACT 2600 has a population of 0, a median age of 32, a median household income around $0/week (ABS Census 2021). There are 60 schools within reach. Whether it's the right fit depends on your priorities — these figures describe the community, housing mix and amenity rather than offer a verdict.
This Parkes market data was last updated June 2026. Figures are computed monthly from 12-month rolling windows of recorded sales and leases, with five years of monthly history behind the trend charts. Methodology, glossary and data sources are linked in the footer.
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