Bohle Plains vs Earlville

Houses cost about the same in both suburbs: the median house price is $745K in Bohle Plains and $745K in Earlville.

For units, Bohle Plains sits at a median of $445K against $370K in Earlville, which makes Earlville the more affordable unit market and Bohle Plains the pricier one.

On cash flow, Earlville leads: houses there return a gross rental yield of 5.14%, compared with 4.50% in Bohle Plains, a gap of 0.64 percentage points.

Over the past year house prices moved +15.7% in Bohle Plains and +13.3% in Earlville, so recent momentum favours Bohle Plains, although both suburbs recorded growth.

Looking back three years, Bohle Plains houses are +63.4% and Earlville houses +31.2%, so Bohle Plains has compounded faster than Earlville over the longer window.

Rental vacancy is 0.4% in Earlville and 1.5% in Bohle Plains, so landlords in Earlville face less competition for tenants. Anything under 2% is generally read as a tight market where tenants compete for homes.

Earlville is the bigger suburb, with a population of 4,200 against 3,989, larger than Bohle Plains; a larger suburb usually means a deeper pool of buyers and tenants.

In short: Earlville for rental income, Bohle Plains for recent price momentum, Earlville for the tighter rental market. Which matters more depends on whether the investor is buying for cash flow, capital growth or affordability.