Murray Bridge, SA 5253
Murray Bridge property market
House rentals are Murray Bridge's top market, with 417 leases (sharply up 23%) at $505 a week (up 5.2%) as of July 2026, renting out in about 24 days (up from 20 days last year), more sought-after than most house rental markets in SA, with 3-bedroom the most common at around 55%.
House sales are nearly as big, with 325 sales (up 12.5%) at around $599k (up 17.2%), taking about 35 days to sell (up from 31 days last year), with around half being 3-bedroom. Then come 65 unit rentals at $360 a week (among the country's biggest unit rent drops). 29 unit sales at around $428k (less sought-after than most unit markets).
Who lives hereA low-income, renter-heavy, older-leaning suburb, with a strong trades and blue-collar workforce.
House covers houses, duplexes, semi-detached and terraces; Unit covers apartments, units, townhouses and villas.
Murray Bridge demographics & population
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.
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Who lives in Murray Bridge?
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
A strongly multicultural community with deep migrant heritage.
2020–21 understated — COVID border closures.
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.
Housing & affordability in Murray Bridge
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.
Income & employment in Murray Bridge
Incomes, employment, and the occupation mix of the people who live here.
A typical household earns about 1.6× the typical individual 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.
Getting around Murray Bridge
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
Schools in and around Murray Bridge
8 schools inside Murray Bridge, plus the closest options around it. Families can choose from 7 primary schools in Murray Bridge and its surrounds, and 4 high schools covering the secondary years. 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.
- Within Murray Bridge · 8Order by
- 1Tyndale Christian School Murray BridgeIndependent · Combined · Co-ed · Years R-12 · Within suburbState Rank—English—Maths—Students265Multilingual50%ICSEA Rank50th
- 2St Joseph's SchoolCatholic · Combined · Co-ed · Years R-9 · Within suburbState Rank—English—Maths—Students265Multilingual50%ICSEA Rank50th
- 3Murray Bridge North SchoolGovernment · Primary · Co-ed · Years U, R-6 · Within suburbState Rank—English—Maths—Students265Multilingual50%ICSEA Rank50th
- 4Murray Bridge Special SchoolGovernment · Special · Co-ed · Years U · Within suburbState Rank—English—Maths—Students265Multilingual1%ICSEA Rank50th
- 5Murray Bridge South Primary SchoolGovernment · Primary · Co-ed · Years R-6 · Within suburbState Rank—English—Maths—Students265Multilingual50%ICSEA Rank50th
- 6Murray Bridge High SchoolGovernment · Secondary · Co-ed · Years U, 7-12 · Within suburbState Rank—English—Maths—Students265Multilingual50%ICSEA Rank50th
- 7Fraser Park Primary SchoolGovernment · Primary · Co-ed · Years R-6 · Within suburbState Rank—English—Maths—Students265Multilingual50%ICSEA Rank50th
- 8Unity CollegeIndependent · Combined · Co-ed · Years R-12 · Within suburbState Rank—English—Maths—Students265Multilingual50%ICSEA Rank50th
- Nearby · within 5 km · 1
- 9Mypolonga Primary SchoolGovernment · Primary · Co-ed · Years R-6 · Mypolonga · 1.7 kmState Rank—English—Maths—Students265Multilingual1%ICSEA Rank50th
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.
Turnover
How settled or transient the community is — and where newcomers came from.
Murray Bridge median house price & rent
Headline price, rent, yield and time on market for Murray Bridge — choose a property type and size below.
House & unit prices by bedroom
Every segment this suburb tracks — sales and rentals side by side, ranked by total activity over the last twelve months.
Murray Bridge property growth
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.
Houses
Units
Buying vs renting in Murray Bridge
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.
How strong is demand, and which way is it heading?
Two questions on one chart — how strong demand is right now, and which way it's heading year-on-year.
Sales market velocity
Murray Bridge against the neighbourhood
Eight diagnostic views cutting the data a different way each time — Murray Bridge in blue, peers in colour.
How fast — and is it getting faster?
Housing supply & months of stock
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.
Sales market
| Segment | Band | Months of supply left | YoYYoY change12-month change in months of supply. Down means stock is tightening (fewer months than a year ago); up means stock is loosening. | ListedListedActive listings in this segment right now, derived from months of supply multiplied by the recent transaction rate. | SoldSold (last year)Total sold transactions completed in this segment over the last 12 months. | Per monthPer monthAverage monthly absorption — how many properties are sold each month in this segment, over the last 12 months. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Balanced | 2.7 | ▼ -0.2 | 11 | 49 | 4.1 | |
| Slightly loose | 3.4 | ▲ +2.9 | 14 | 49 | 4.1 | |
| Loose | 4.0 | ▲ +1.8 | 16 | 49 | 4.1 | |
| Loose | 4.3 | ▲ +3.6 | 18 | 49 | 4.1 | |
| Loose | 5.3 | ▲ +2.9 | 22 | 49 | 4.1 | |
| Loose | 5.6 | ▲ +3.6 | 23 | 49 | 4.1 |
Rental market
| Segment | Band | Months of supply left | YoYYoY change12-month change in months of supply. Down means stock is tightening (fewer months than a year ago); up means stock is loosening. | ListedListedActive listings in this segment right now, derived from months of supply multiplied by the recent transaction rate. | LeasedLeased (last year)Total leased transactions completed in this segment over the last 12 months. | Per monthPer monthAverage monthly absorption — how many properties are leased each month in this segment, over the last 12 months. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tight | 0.4 | ▼ -1.1 | 3 | 77 | 6.4 | |
| Tight | 0.5 | ▼ -1.2 | 3 | 77 | 6.4 | |
| National typical | 0.7 | ▼ -3.5 | 4 | 77 | 6.4 | |
| National typical | 0.7 | ▼ -0.3 | 4 | 77 | 6.4 | |
| Loose | 1.3 | ▲ +1.3 | 8 | 77 | 6.4 | |
| Oversupply | 2.1 | ▲ +1.6 | 13 | 77 | 6.4 | |
| Oversupply | 2.5 | ▲ +0.7 | 16 | 77 | 6.4 |
Who's transacting — buyers or tenants?
Out of every property transaction in this suburb, what share are sales versus leases — each point a rolling twelve-month window.
Murray Bridge — Units & Houses, all bedrooms
Murray Bridge median house price & rent history
Each tape traces one metric across sixty months for the selected segment — every point a trailing twelve-month figure, matching the headline KPIs above.
Five-year summaryAs of Jun 2026, the median house sale price in Murray Bridge rose from $190k (Jul 2021) to $432k (Jun 2026) — +127.8% growth over five years — peaking at $504k between May 2025 and Apr 2026. Median house rent went from $144/wk to $450/wk (+212.5%) over the same period. For units, the median sale price rose from $147k to $336k (+128.4%), with rent up from $178/wk to $288/wk (+61.8%) over the same period.
Suburbs near Murray Bridge: prices compared
The nearest suburbs to Murray Bridge, ranked by distance — each lined up against Murray Bridge on the same measures, so the differences jump out at a glance.
Suburbs like Murray Bridge
Suburbs anywhere in SA that behave like Murray Bridge — matched on price, growth, selling speed and demand, not on distance. A shortlist of markets that move the same way — including ones far away you'd never think to compare. (Want the suburbs right next door instead? See Nearby markets above.)
Murray Bridge vs Elizabeth Downs: the closest sales-market match trades at a median of $500k against Murray Bridge's $408k — about 23% higher, with homes selling in 16 days versus 28 days here.
Comparable sales markets to Murray Bridge: Elizabeth Downs property growth, Elizabeth Grove median house price, Elizabeth Park house prices, Andrews Farm (SA 5114) and Evanston median house price.
Murray Bridge's closest rental-market twins: Andrews Farm, SA property market, Elizabeth Downs house prices, Elizabeth Park house prices, Elizabeth Grove median house price and Evanston median house price. Each link opens that suburb's full market report.
Frequently asked · Murray Bridge
26 data-driven answers about Murray Bridge's property market — every one computed from the metrics above.
What things cost
Prices, rent, yield, ownership costWhat is the median house price in Murray Bridge?
#The median house price in Murray Bridge, SA 5253 is $408k as of June 2026, based on 66 sales over the past 12 months. Houses there have moved +50.0% year-on-year. Prices vary by bedroom count, from compact two-bedroom homes to larger four-bedroom houses. See the bedroom-level breakdown below for 2-, 3- and 4-bedroom medians.
What is the median unit price in Murray Bridge?
#The median unit price in Murray Bridge, SA 5253 is $408k as of June 2026, based on 66 sales over the past 12 months. Units have moved +50.0% year-on-year and currently trade at roughly 100% of the median house price.
How much does it cost to rent in Murray Bridge?
#The median weekly house rent in Murray Bridge is $298 as of June 2026, drawn from 65 leases over the past 12 months. Units rent for around $298 per week. House rents have moved +50.0% year-on-year. Current vacancy pressure is shown in the supply section above.
How much is rent for a 3 bedroom house in Murray Bridge?
#A 3 bedroom house in Murray Bridge rents for a median $298 per week as of June 2026, drawn from 65 leases over the past 12 months. Across other house sizes: 2-bedroom $298/week, 4-bedroom $298/week. Unit rents: 1-bedroom $298/week, 2-bedroom $298/week, 3-bedroom $298/week. Figures cover only segments with enough recent leases to be statistically meaningful; sparse segments are excluded. The segment breakdown covers rent, yield and days on market for every property type and bedroom count.
What is the gross rental yield in Murray Bridge?
#Gross rental yield in Murray Bridge is 3.65% for houses and 3.65% for units as of June 2026, compared with the SA unit median of 3.30%. Gross yield is annual rent divided by purchase price — it doesn't account for ownership costs like council rates, strata, maintenance or vacancy.
How much is a 3 bedroom house in Murray Bridge?
#As of June 2026, Murray Bridge medians by bedroom count:
| Property | 1 bed | 2 bed | 3 bed | 4 bed | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Houses | — | $408k | $408k | $408k | $408k |
| Units | $408k | $408k | $408k | — | $408k |
Figures cover only segments with enough recent transactions to be statistically meaningful; sparse segments are excluded.
What does it cost to own versus rent at the Murray Bridge median?
#At the median Murray Bridge house ($408k purchase, $298/week rent), weekly mortgage repayments sit at roughly $437 — about $139 more per week than renting. That gap is the ownership premium. For the median unit ($408k purchase, $298/week rent), repayments run about $437 per week. Figures assume 80% LVR, a 6.0% interest rate and a 30-year principal-and-interest loan.
How the market is moving
Speed, supply, growth, cycle phaseWhat are Murray Bridge's property market trends?
#Murray Bridge's property market trends to June 2026: house prices rose +50.0% year-on-year and units +50.0%; weekly house rents moved +50.0%; homes now sell in a median 28 days — slower than a year ago by 2; sales supply sits at 5.3 months (very loose). Read together — price, rent, selling speed and supply — they show which way the Murray Bridge market is leaning. The 5-year tape and demand cycle charts above plot the full trajectory.
What does the data say about Murray Bridge as an investment?
#As of June 2026 in Murray Bridge, house prices rose +50.0% over the year, gross rental yield is 3.65% against a SA median of 2.84%, houses take a median 28 days to sell, sales supply is 5.3 months (very loose). Capital growth, rental yield, selling speed and supply are the signals investors weigh — but these figures describe the market, not a recommendation. This is data, not financial advice; always do your own research and consider a licensed adviser.
How quickly do houses sell in Murray Bridge?
#Houses in Murray Bridge sell in a median 28 days on market as of June 2026, with units clearing slightly similarly at 28 days. Days on market have lengthened by 2 days versus a year ago. Faster clearance typically coincides with stronger buyer demand and lower supply.
Is Murray Bridge a tight or loose property market right now?
#Murray Bridge's sales market sits at 5.3 months of supply for houses as of June 2026 — classified as Very Loose against the Australian distribution. Under 1.7 months is Severe (extreme shortage); over 4.5 months is Loose. The rental side is tighter still at 0.4 months of supply.
Have property prices in Murray Bridge gone up or down?
#House prices in Murray Bridge moved +50.0% over the 12 months to June 2026, while units moved +50.0%. The 5-year tape above plots the full monthly trajectory — showing where the market changed character rather than just crossing round numbers.
How active is the rental market in Murray Bridge?
#Murray Bridge's house rental market sits at 0.4 months of supply as of June 2026 — classified as Severe (extreme shortage), with 77 houses leased over the past 12 months. Units sit at 2.1 months. Tighter supply typically corresponds to faster letting and upward pressure on rents.
Where is Murray Bridge in its property market cycle?
#Murray Bridge's house market is currently in the 'in_demand_easing' phase as of June 2026 — combining above-median sales velocity nationally with year-on-year loosening in days on market. The demand cycle chart above plots all eight segments on the same demand-versus-direction axes.
How it compares
Vs state, vs nearby, vs popularHow does Murray Bridge compare to other SA suburbs?
#Murray Bridge's median house price ($408k) is 42% below the SA median ($707k) as of June 2026. On selling speed, houses clear in 28 days vs 18 days state median. On gross yield, Murray Bridge sits at 3.65% vs 2.84% state median.
How does Murray Bridge compare to neighbouring suburbs?
#Murray Bridge's most-similar nearby market is Elizabeth Downs (57.8 km away) with a median house price of $500k — about 23% pricier. The Nearby and Similar markets sections above rank every peer within radius and by composite similarity across price, days on market, yield, ownership cost and cycle phase.
What's the most popular property type in Murray Bridge?
#The most-transacted segment in Murray Bridge over the 12 months to June 2026 is 2 bed houses with 49 sales. 3 bed houses come second at 49 sales. The buying-versus-renting section above breaks down the top segments with weekly mortgage, rent and ownership-cost detail.
How many properties were sold and leased in Murray Bridge last year?
#Murray Bridge recorded 49 house sales and 49 unit sales over the 12 months to June 2026 — a combined 98 transactions. On the rental side, 77 houses and 77 units were leased. Segments with statistically thin samples are excluded from displayed figures.
About the area
Population, income, who lives here, schoolsWhat postcode is Murray Bridge in?
#Murray Bridge is in postcode 5253, in the Limestone Coast region of SA. Addresses there are written as Murray Bridge, SA 5253.
What is the population of Murray Bridge?
#Murray Bridge, SA 5253 is home to 12,636 residents (ABS Census 2021). The median resident age is 35, and the average household holds 1.6 people. The "Who lives here" section above breaks the community down by age, life stage and tenure.
What is the median household income in Murray Bridge?
#The median household in Murray Bridge earns $804 per week — roughly $42k a year (ABS Census 2021). Median personal income runs $489/week. Income, rent-to-income and mortgage-to-income context sits in the "Who lives here" section above.
What is the unemployment rate in Murray Bridge?
#The unemployment rate in Murray Bridge is 50.0% (ABS Census 2021). That sits right around the median for Australian suburbs. The rate counts people who are working or actively looking for work — not a share of all residents. Workforce participation sits at 50%. The local economy section above covers incomes, employment status and the occupation mix.
Do people own or rent in Murray Bridge?
#Murray Bridge is mostly owner-occupied: about 100% of households are owner-occupiers and 50% rent (ABS Census 2021). Of owners, 50% own outright and 50% are paying off a mortgage.
What schools are near Murray Bridge?
#Murray Bridge has 9 schools within reach, 8 of them inside the suburb itself — including Tyndale Christian School Murray Bridge, St Joseph's School, Murray Bridge North School. The Schools section above maps each one with sector, year range, enrolment, Micromarkets-compiled academic ratings and ICSEA (ACARA).
Is Murray Bridge a good place to live?
#Murray Bridge, SA 5253 has a population of 12,636, a median age of 35, a median household income around $804/week, 50% of households renting (ABS Census 2021). There are 9 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.
About this data
Methodology and update cadenceWhen was this Murray Bridge market data last updated?
#This Murray Bridge market data was last updated July 2026, covering the 12 months to 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.