Hyden, WA
By Lauren McCaleb · Reviewed by Dylan Duncan ·
Hyden is a small wheatbelt town in the Shire of Kondinin in Western Australia, roughly 290 kilometres east-south-east of Perth on the traditional lands of the Njakinjaki people. Sandalwood cutters were among the first Europeans to pass through, and farming took hold in the 1920s, with the first wheat harvested in 1927, the townsite gazetted in 1932 and a railway reaching nearby Hyden Rock in 1933. The town is famous for Wave Rock, a granite formation a few kilometres east whose smooth, curved face rises like a great breaking wave; together with the wildflowers that bloom from spring it draws around a hundred thousand visitors a year to this remote corner of the wheatbelt.
Around the national middle
Hyden is more socio-economically advantaged than about 46% of the 14,462 Australian suburbs we score, based on the ABS SEIFA index (raw score 981, where about 1000 is the national average).
A socio-economic measure from ABS Census data — not a measure of how good a suburb is to live in or visit. How we calculate this.
Is Hyden a good place to live?
There’s no single answer — it depends on what matters to you. So instead of one mystery number, we break it down: a transparent score on each part of life we can back with public data, and an honest “not yet” on the parts we can’t.
Around the national middle
A weighted blend of the 2 components we can score for Hyden from public data. It sits alongside — and reconciles with — the socio-economic Suburb Score above; it is a transparent read, not a complete verdict.
Socio-economic advantage
46/100Around the national middle
Around the national middle — the same ABS SEIFA-based Suburb Score (46/100) shown above. Income, education and occupation, as published by the ABS. · ABS SEIFA 2021
Housing affordability
83/100More affordable than most suburbs
Median weekly rent was $175 at the 2021 Census — more affordable than about 83% of suburbs we can compare. Housing data only, no valuations. · ABS Census 2021
Not yet scored
We’d rather leave these open than publish a number we can’t stand behind. Here’s where each one stands.
- Amenities & accessNot scored yet — our OpenStreetMap amenity mapping is still rolling out across suburbs.
- Green spaceNot scored yet — our OpenStreetMap green-space mapping is still rolling out across suburbs.
- TransportNot scored yet — our OpenStreetMap public-transport mapping is still rolling out across suburbs.
- SchoolsNot scored yet — school performance (ACARA / ICSEA) needs a data-reuse licence cleared before we can publish it.
- SafetyNot scored yet — Australia has no single open crime dataset and safety data carries defamation and legal care, so it is gated pending a go/no-go and will be data-only when added.
- CommunityNot scored yet — we won't reduce community to a number from a proxy. We'd rather leave it open than publish an invented value judgement.
A transparent read on public data, not a verdict — and not a measure of any person or community. See our methodology for how each component is worked out and why some aren’t scored yet.
Hyden at a glance
- Population (2021)
- 384
- Median age
- 44
- Median weekly household income
- $1,367
- SEIFA score
- 981
- Local government area
- Kondinin
- Coordinates
- -32.4011, 119.0921
Map of Hyden
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Housing & property in Hyden
What it costs to live in Hyden and how residents hold their homes, from the Australian Bureau of Statistics 2021 Census.
- Median rent
- $175
- per week
- Median mortgage
- $1,035
- per month
- Owner-occupied
- 62%
- of dwellings
- Rented
- 29%
- of dwellings
The full tenure and dwelling-type breakdown is in the Hyden demographics section below.
Source: ABS Census of Population and Housing, 2021. © Australian Bureau of Statistics, released under CC BY 4.0. See our methodology.
Hyden demographics (2021 Census)
The figures below profile Hyden using the Australian Bureau of Statistics 2021 Census; every percentage is a share of a clearly stated Census count, so each one traces back to the source. At a glance, the largest age group is mid-life (45–64) at 28% and 13% of residents were born overseas.
Age profile
| Age group | People | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Children (0–14) | 72 | 19% |
| Youth (15–24) | 25 | 7% |
| Young adults (25–44) | 94 | 25% |
| Mid-life (45–64) | 108 | 28% |
| Seniors (65+) | 80 | 21% |
Share of the 379 people counted by age.
Housing and households
| Tenure | Dwellings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Owned outright | 57 | 46% |
| Owned with a mortgage | 20 | 16% |
| Rented | 36 | 29% |
| Dwelling type | Dwellings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | 120 | 94% |
| Townhouses & semis | 3 | 2% |
| Flats & apartments | 0 | 0% |
Tenure and dwelling shares are of the roughly 127 occupied private dwellings in Hyden.
- Average household size
- 2.3 people
- Median weekly family income
- $2,136
- Median weekly personal income
- $1,013
Community and culture
- Born overseas
- 40 (13%)
- Speaks a language other than English at home
- 8 (2%)
- Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander
- 8 (2%)
Work and education
- Completed Year 12
- 123 (41%)
- Labour-force participation
- 66.7%
- Unemployment rate
- 1.5%
- Employed full-time
- 137
- Employed part-time
- 50
Source: ABS Census of Population and Housing, 2021 (General Community Profile, by Suburb and Locality). © Australian Bureau of Statistics, released under CC BY 4.0. How we group bands and derive each share is set out on our methodology page.
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Common questions about Hyden
Is Hyden a good place to live?
There's no single answer, so we score what the public data can back. On socio-economic advantage and housing affordability, Hyden rates 58/100 overall (Around the national middle). Public transport, schools and safety aren't scored yet — see our methodology for why.
What is the median rent in Hyden?
At the 2021 Census, the median weekly rent in Hyden was $175, and the median monthly mortgage repayment was $1,035. These are official ABS Census figures — StreetScout publishes housing data only, with no property valuations or agent referrals.
Where is Hyden?
Hyden is a suburb of Western Australia, Australia, in the Kondinin local government area.
What is the population of Hyden?
At the 2021 Census, Hyden had a population of about 384.
Is Hyden an advantaged area?
Hyden has an ABS SEIFA score of 981, where about 1000 is the national average — higher scores indicate greater relative socio-economic advantage. That gives it a Suburb Score of 46 out of 100 — more socio-economically advantaged than about 46% of Australian suburbs.
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