Campbelltown vs Mayfield West

The median house price is $1.0M in Campbelltown and $1.0M in Mayfield West, so Campbelltown is the cheaper entry point.

For units, Campbelltown sits at a median of $590K against $495K in Mayfield West, which makes Mayfield West the more affordable unit market and Campbelltown the pricier one.

On cash flow, Mayfield West leads: houses there return a gross rental yield of 3.80%, compared with 3.17% in Campbelltown, a gap of 0.63 percentage points.

Over the past year house prices moved +9.9% in both suburbs.

Looking back three years, Campbelltown houses are +16.9% and Mayfield West houses +28.0%, so Mayfield West has compounded faster than Campbelltown over the longer window.

Rental vacancy is 0.9% in Mayfield West and 1.8% in Campbelltown, so landlords in Mayfield West face less competition for tenants. Anything under 2% is generally read as a tight market where tenants compete for homes.

Campbelltown is the bigger suburb, with a population of 16,577 against 1,993, roughly 8 times the size of Mayfield West; a larger suburb usually means a deeper pool of buyers and tenants.

In short: Mayfield West for rental income, Campbelltown for a lower purchase price, Mayfield West for the tighter rental market. Which matters more depends on whether the investor is buying for cash flow, capital growth or affordability.