What do homes sell for across the North Sydney council area?
Homes in the North Sydney council area sold for a median $1.45M in 2025 across 2,028 sales, against $943k for every NSW sale together: higher than 90% of NSW councils. The median is up 43.4% on ten years ago.
Median sale price by year
Every residential market sale placed at an address in the council · hollow point = 2026 to 2 Nov
Source NSW Valuer General sales 2
Source NSW Valuer General sales 2
How long sales take to settle
Median days from contract to settlement for homes, by the year they settled. This isn't time on the market, which VG doesn't record · 42 days in 2025 · 2026 so far
Source NSW Valuer General sales 2
Units settling 6+ months after contract
Share of the unit sales settling each year that settled more than 180 days after contract, mostly bought off the plan · 6.4% in 2025 · 2026 so far, more to arrive
Source NSW Valuer General sales 2
Vacant land, per m²
Median price per square metre of vacant land sold, lots up to 2 ha · 2025 on still filling in: land bought off the plan reaches VG only when it settles
Source NSW Valuer General sales 2
House block size
Median land area of the houses sold · 316 m² in 2025
Source NSW Valuer General sales 2
Commercial, farm and other property
Sales VG records as neither a home nor vacant land: shops, offices, factories, farms and more · one per dealing · 2025: 50 sales, median $895k
Source NSW Valuer General sales 2
Renting
New leases in the North Sydney council area went for a median $850 a week in April to June 2026, against $720 across NSW. That's 2.4% more than a year earlier.
Bonds lodged in the quarter with NSW Fair Trading, placed at each rented home's address by NSW Communities and Justice. These are new leases, not what every renter pays.
Source DCJ Rent and Sales Report 30
Median weekly rent each quarter
New bonds, Jul–Sep 2017 to Apr–Jun 2026 · only quarters with 31 or more bonds
Source DCJ Rent and Sales Report 30
By kind of home and bedrooms
Median weekly rent, Apr–Jun 2026, with the middle half of rents under it
| Every home | Houses | Units | Townhouses | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Any | $850$720–1,100 | $1,300$950–1,800 | $840$710–1,033 | $1,325$991–1,550 |
| 1 bed | $720$650–800 | $703†$570–805 | $720$650–800 | – |
| 2 beds | $910$818–1,100 | $980†$873–1,100 | $900$815–1,100 | $1,028†$923–1,188 |
| 3 beds | $1,400$1,250–1,600 | $1,400$1,250–1,600 | $1,400$1,210–1,625 | $1,450†$1,300–1,575 |
| 4+ beds | $1,990$1,650–2,200 | $2,000†$1,900–2,450 | – | – |
A figure needs more than 10 new bonds; one marked † rests on 11 to 30, so read it as rough. The headline figures need 31 or more.
Source DCJ Rent and Sales Report 30
Strata schemes
2,400 strata schemes are registered in the North Sydney council area, with 34,114 lots between them, and 67% of its addresses are in one (NSW 25%). They were registered 39.5 years ago on average (NSW 29.1), which dates the scheme, not always its building.
A scheme is counted where most of its addresses are. Lots include the garages, storerooms and shops a plan makes lots of, and a scheme that has been wound up leaves the register.
Source StrataHub strata plans 29
When its schemes were registered
Share of its schemes under each strata Act · NSW: 9.0%, 40%, 36% and 15%
These date each scheme's registration, not its building: an older block can be strata-titled long after it went up.
Source StrataHub strata plans 29
See the share of addresses in a strata scheme on the map
Building approvals
464 dwellings were approved in the North Sydney council area in 2025–26, 6.3 for every 1,000 residents (NSW 6.1): 7 houses and 457 other dwellings, such as townhouses and apartments. The building work approved was worth $653M for homes and $199M for other buildings.
Dwellings approved
Each financial year to June · dashed: NSW at this area's usual share
Source ABS Building Approvals 28
An approval is what may be built, not what was: a job can be approved again, built years later or never. One large development can make a year, so the counts jump about.
Source ABS Building Approvals 28
See dwellings approved per 1,000 residents on the map
Land values
At 1 July 2025 the Valuer General valued the land in the North Sydney council area at $47.3bn, up 5.2% on a year before. Residential land makes up $43.3bn of it (92%). The median residential land value in 2025 was $2,740,000, 74% of the median residential sale price.
Land value by zone, 1 July 2025
Every property's land value, totalled by its zone
Total $47.3bn, against $45bn at 1 July 2024 (+5.2%)
Source Valuer General land value summaries 20
Median residential land value
Each year's median, as the Valuer General's summary gives it, and that as a share of the median residential sale price
The share divides one median by the other, so it isn't any one home's land and price.
Source Valuer General land value summaries 20
See the change in land value for every council on the map
First home buyers and transfer duty
In 2025–26, about 228 first home buyers in the North Sydney council area were let off transfer duty or paid less under a NSW first home buyer scheme, up from 222 the year before. That's 0.7% of the 32,137 across NSW. The estimate of First Home Owner Grants paid here rounds to none. Transfer duty on residential property here came to about $253.2M, 2.4% of NSW's $10.6bn. Revenue NSW counts by postcode, so these are estimates: each postcode's figures are split by where its homes are.
First home buyer duty exemptions
Transfer duty exemptions and concessions each financial year, estimated from postcode figures
NSW, 2025–26: 32,137
Who qualifies for a first home buyer exemption, and up to what price, has changed over the years, so the counts follow the rules as well as demand.
Source Revenue NSW statistics by postcode 19
First Home Owner Grants paid
Payments each financial year, estimated from postcode figures
NSW, 2025–26: 636
Transfer duty paid on residential land
Duty paid each financial year, estimated from postcode figures
NSW, 2025–26: $10.6bn
| Against NSW | 2020–21 | 2025–26 | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Duty here (estimate) | $188.6M | $253.2M | +34% |
| NSW duty on residential land | $7.83bn | $10.7bn | +37% |
| NSW residential transfers | 215,274 | 200,697 | −7% |
NSW's lines are Revenue NSW's land-related duty statistics, which count residential transfers by the documents it receives; duty here comes from its postcode statistics, by the postcode on each lodged transfer. They're counted differently, so compare how each changed, not the amounts. Both run from 2020–21, the first year of the postcode figures.
Exemptions are counted when the transfer is lodged and grants when they're paid, so the two don't match. Duty is the amount paid, not a count of sales.
Source Revenue NSW statistics by postcode 19
See first home buyer exemptions for every suburb in the council on the map
Which suburbs make up the North Sydney council area?
The North Sydney council area takes in 13 suburbs across 6 postcodes.
Every suburb in the council
Most residents first · each links to its own page
| Suburb | Residents | Median, 2025 | Sales | 10 years | Crime per 1,000, 2025 | Advantage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cremorne | 11,263 | $1.55M | 344 | +53% | 18.4 | 98th |
| Neutral Bay | 10,090 | $1.35M | 294 | +44% | 30.5 | 97th |
| North Sydney | 8,964 | $1.34M | 371 | +50% | 53.3 | 98th |
| Wollstonecraft | 8,115 | $1.34M | 218 | +44% | 14.1 | 99th |
| Cammeray | 7,088 | $1.6M | 186 | +39% | 18.3 | 98th |
| Crows Nest | 4,974 | $1.47M | 170 | +65% | 77.7 | 98th |
| Kirribilli | 3,629 | $1.58M | 90 | +21% | 39.6 | 96th |
| Waverton | 2,981 | $1.66M | 56 | +42% | 20.2 | 99th |
| Milsons Point | 2,529 | $2.58M | 68 | +60% | 28.6 | 100th |
| McMahons Point | 2,315 | $1.75M | 74 | +6% | 23.3 | 99th |
| Cremorne Point | 2,270 | $2.16M | 58 | +24% | 15.7 | 99th |
| Kurraba Point | 1,401 | $1.59M | 48 | +8% | 11.2 | 99th |
| Lavender Bay | 870 | $1.55M | 26 | +75% | 37.9 | 96th |
The suburbs' own figures, as on their pages: medians need at least 5 sales, crime rates 200 residents and SEIFA percentiles 100. Advantage is the SEIFA IRSAD percentile among NSW suburbs.
Source NSW Valuer General sales 2 · BOCSAR recorded crime 3 · ABS SEIFA 2021 4 · ABS Census 2021 1
Partly in the council (share of the suburb's addresses): St Leonards 31%.
Its postcodes
Postal areas holding at least 1% of the council's addresses, with that share · each links to its own page
Source ABS ASGS 2021 and LGA 2025 24
Who lives in the North Sydney council area?
On income, education, jobs and housing together, the North Sydney council area scores 1,164 on the ABS index of advantage, higher than 97% of NSW councils. Its median household earned $2,524 a week at the 2021 Census.
SEIFA 2021 deciles
1 = most disadvantaged tenth of Australian council areas, 10 = most advantaged
Among NSW councils it sits in the 98th percentile on IRSAD.
Source ABS SEIFA 2021 4
Census 2021 profile
- Residents (2021)
- 68,950
- Median age
- 38
- Aged 65 and over
- 16.7%
- Median household income
- $2,524 a week
- Households renting
- 52.3%
- Social housing
- 1%
- Owned outright
- 25.7%
- With a mortgage
- 20.5%
- Median mortgage (2021)
- $3,000 a month
- Flats and apartments
- 75.7%
- People per km²
- 6,567
Source ABS Census 2021 1
Household income across NSW
Every council's median weekly household income, Census 2021
Source ABS Census 2021 1
How households hold their homes
Share of households, Census 2021 · renting privately leaves out social housing, which the Census counts as renting
- Owned outright26%
- With a mortgage21%
- Renting privately51%
- Social housing1%
- Other or not stated1.5%
Source ABS Census 2021 1
Population
An estimated 73,705 people lived in the North Sydney council area at 30 June 2025, up 0.8% on a year earlier, against +1.2% across NSW. That's 2,845 more people than in 2015 (+4%).
Source ABS Regional Population 7
Growth each year
Change over the year to 30 June, against NSW
Source ABS Regional Population 7
Income
The Census counts households' income once in five years ($2,524 a week in 2021); the ABS's yearly figure from tax returns counts each person's. Residents of the North Sydney council area who lodged a tax return had a median income of $88,760 in 2022–23, against $58,909 across NSW. That's 14% more than in 2018–19 (NSW +19%). For 76.2%, most income came from wages and salaries.
Residents who lodged a tax return, by where they live; government pensions and allowances aren't counted, and neither are people who didn't lodge.
Source ABS Data by Region 8
Median income each year
All sources, before tax · financial years 2018–19 to 2022–23, by the year they end
Source ABS Data by Region 8
Where income comes from
The source most of each person's income came from, 2022–23
- Wages and salaries76%NSW 80%
- Own business5.1%NSW 6.7%
- Investments17%NSW 12%
- Super and annuities0.8%NSW 0.9%
- Other sources1.4%NSW 0.7%
Median income from each source
Among the people with any income from it
- Wages and salariesNSW $63,301
- $93,292
- Own businessNSW $12,714
- $12,189
- InvestmentsNSW $240
- $1,081
- Super and annuitiesNSW $26,108
- $31,361
Source ABS Data by Region 8
How did the North Sydney council area vote?
Federal elections
At the 2025 federal election, the two-party-preferred vote in the North Sydney council area split an estimated 61.1% Labor to 38.9% Coalition, against 55.3% to 44.7% across NSW. That's a swing of 10.6 points to Labor since 2022 (across NSW, 3.9 points to Labor). Like every figure here, it's estimated from the polling places where votes were cast, not where voters live: built from 46% of the formal votes cast in its electorates.
The 2025 federal election
Polling day 3 May 2025 · estimated from where votes were cast, not where voters live
First preferences
- Labor20%
- Coalition26%
- Greens11%
- Independents38%
- Other candidates4.1%
NSW: Labor 35% · Coalition 32% · Greens 11% · Independents 10% · Other candidates 13%
Votes are counted where they're cast. Where the electoral commission publishes votes by where electors live (federal 2019 and 2022), nearly every vote is placed; otherwise each election-day vote is placed at the polling places nearest the homes it serves, and pre-poll, postal and absent votes can't be placed, so the share a figure is built from is shown beside it.
Source AEC Tally Room federal election results (31496) · AEC, CC BY 4.0 9
Labor's two-party-preferred share
Each federal election, against NSW · above each point, the swing since the election before
Votes each estimate is built from: 2007 77% · 2010 76% · 2013 69% · 2016 66% · 2019 100% · 2022 100% · 2025 46%
Source AEC Tally Room federal election results (31496) · AEC, CC BY 4.0 9
Its 2 federal electorates, 2025
The divisions its residents vote in, with the share of its residents (2021 Census) in each · the AEC's own count for the whole division, not an estimate
Elected: Zali STEGGALL (Independent)
Final count, two candidates
First preferences, 8 candidates
130,761 enrolled · 114,895 formal votes · 4.6% informal
Results on the AEC siteElected: Nicolette BOELE (Independent)
Final count, two candidates
First preferences, 8 candidates
126,860 enrolled · 112,202 formal votes · 5.6% informal
Results on the AEC siteSource AEC Tally Room federal election results (31496) · AEC, CC BY 4.0 9
State elections
At the 2023 state election, Coalition took the most first preferences in the North Sydney council area, an estimated 38.4%. There's no two-party-preferred estimate: most of the votes in its districts came from contests whose final two weren't Labor and the Coalition. Like every figure here, it's estimated from the polling places where votes were cast, not where voters live: built from 52% of the formal votes cast in its electorates.
The 2023 state election
Polling day 25 March 2023 · estimated from where votes were cast, not where voters live
First preferences
- Labor20%
- Coalition38%
- Greens12%
- Independents26%
- Other candidates2.9%
NSW: Labor 37% · Coalition 35% · Greens 10% · Independents 9% · Other candidates 9%
Votes are counted where they're cast. Where the electoral commission publishes votes by where electors live (federal 2019 and 2022), nearly every vote is placed; otherwise each election-day vote is placed at the polling places nearest the homes it serves, and pre-poll, postal and absent votes can't be placed, so the share a figure is built from is shown beside it.
Source NSW Electoral Commission past election results (SG2301) · NSWEC, CC BY 4.0 10
Its 2 state electorates, 2023
The districts its residents vote in, with the share of its residents (2021 Census) in each · the NSW Electoral Commission's own count for the whole district, not an estimate
Elected: Felicity WILSON (The Liberal Party of Australia, New South Wales Division)
Final count, two candidates
First preferences, 7 candidates
56,443 enrolled · 48,177 formal votes · 1.9% informal
Results on the NSW Electoral Commission siteElected: Tim JAMES (The Liberal Party of Australia, New South Wales Division)
Final count, two candidates
First preferences, 5 candidates
60,285 enrolled · 52,830 formal votes · 1.9% informal
Results on the NSW Electoral Commission siteSource NSW Electoral Commission past election results (SG2301) · NSWEC, CC BY 4.0 10
Council elections
At the 2024 council election, Independents took the most first preferences for councillor in the North Sydney council area, 52.1%, and of the 10 councillors elected, Independents 5, Labor 2, Coalition 2 and Greens 1. These are the NSW Electoral Commission's own counts, every ward added together, not estimates.
The 2024 council election
Polling day 14 September 2024 · councillor elections, every ward added together
First preferences
- Labor17%
- Coalition16%
- Greens6.1%
- Independents52%
- Local teams and other parties8.8%
Councillors elected
Independents 5 · Labor 2 · Coalition 2 · Greens 1
Source NSW Electoral Commission past election results (LG2401) · NSWEC, CC BY 4.0 10
Councillors at each election
By party group · independents stand under no party or team name; local teams are with other parties
- 2021 Independents 6 · Labor 2 · Local teams and other parties 2
- 2024 Independents 5 · Labor 2 · Coalition 2 · Greens 1
Source NSW Electoral Commission past election results (LG2401) · NSWEC, CC BY 4.0 10
Its 2024 council elections
2 wards · the NSW Electoral Commission's own counts
Elected: MaryAnn BEREGI (IND), Angus HOY (The Greens), Shannon WELCH (Labor), Jessica KEEN (Liberal), Efi CARR (Liberal)
First preferences, 43 candidates
19,134 formal votes · 3.4% informal
Results on the NSW Electoral Commission siteElected: Zoe BAKER (IND), Christopher HOLDING (IND), Nicole ANTONINI (IND), James SPENCELEY (IND), Godfrey SANTER (Labor)
First preferences, 24 candidates
18,381 formal votes · 5.4% informal
Results on the NSW Electoral Commission siteSource NSW Electoral Commission past election results (LG2401) · NSWEC, CC BY 4.0 10
How much crime is recorded in the North Sydney council area?
Police recorded 30.6 incidents per 1,000 residents in the North Sydney council area in 2025, 54% below the NSW rate (66; lower is better): lower than 94% of NSW councils.
Recorded crime per 1,000 residents
All offences except transport fare evasion · BOCSAR's council figures
Source BOCSAR recorded crime 3
By offence type
2025 rate per 1,000 residents, with the NSW rate · lines show 2001–2025 · shaded: years above NSW
Violent crime0.4× NSW
Property crime0.6× NSW
Domestic violence assault0.3× NSW
Home break-ins0.5× NSW
Vehicle theft0.4× NSW
Source BOCSAR recorded crime 3
Road crashes
Police recorded 1,031 crashes in which someone was killed or injured in the North Sydney council area over 2016–2025, about 103 a year; 341 of them were fatal or caused a serious injury. That's 1.4 a year per 1,000 residents, 16% below the NSW rate (1.7; lower is better). 59% of them were on state roads (highways and main roads). Crash counts follow traffic: a place that many people drive, ride or walk through counts their crashes too, so the rate says more about that traffic than about the streets residents use.
Crashes in which someone was hurt
Killed or injured, by reporting year · 1,031 over 2016–2025, and 400 more where a vehicle was towed away and no one was hurt
Source TfNSW NSW Crash Data 14
How severe, and who was involved
2016–2025 together
Source TfNSW NSW Crash Data 14
Streets with the most casualty crashes
Within the North Sydney council area, 2016–2025
Source TfNSW NSW Crash Data 14
Fines the council issues
The council issued 53,668 parking fines in 2025–26, 728.1 for every 1,000 residents of the North Sydney council area (NSW councils together: 150.6), with a face value of $10M. It issued 33 food safety fines.
Parking fines per 1,000 residents
Issued by the council each financial year · 2026–27 to October, faint · blank in a year it issued fewer than 100
Source Revenue NSW fines, CC BY 15
This counts how hard the council enforces parking, and how many people drive in, not how its residents park. Fines on state land, such as hospitals, universities and police patrols, are no council's and aren't counted. Face value is what the fines were for when issued, not what was paid: many are reduced, withdrawn or never paid.
Source Revenue NSW fines, CC BY 15
See parking fines per 1,000 residents for every council on the map
Ambulance
In 2025–26, ambulances were sent 106.1 times for every 1,000 residents of the area around the North Sydney council area (NSW 182.2). In April to June 2026, half of its emergency calls were reached within 14.9 minutes and nine in ten within 30 minutes (NSW 14 and 33): lower is quicker.
Ambulances sent per 1,000 residents
The wider area around here, each financial year · the dotted line marks the response grid change
NSW Ambulance changed how it sends ambulances in February 2025, and NSW's responses fell 6.4% that quarter, so years either side of the line don't strictly compare.
Source BHI Healthcare Quarterly 25
Emergency (category 2) calls. Half are reached within the median, and nine in ten within the 90th percentile; lower is quicker.
Source BHI Healthcare Quarterly 25
Could fire or flood reach the North Sydney council area, and how many homes run on solar?
1.1% of addresses in the North Sydney council area fall on mapped bush fire prone land. We have no flood map for it, so we can't say whether it floods.
Addresses on bush fire prone land
By RFS category · 5.2% of its land is mapped bush fire prone
- Category 1 vegetation0%
- Category 20.3%
- Category 30%
- Buffer0.7%
- Not bush fire prone99%
Source NSW RFS bush fire prone land 5
Flood planning area
Rooftop solar (estimate)
Source Clean Energy Regulator (estimate) 11
Solar across NSW (estimates)
Every council's systems per 100 houses
Source Clean Energy Regulator (estimate) 11
Tree canopy
29.3% of the land surveyed in the North Sydney council area is under tree canopy (2024/25), below Greater Sydney's 34.5% (higher is better). Much the same as in 2022/23. Greater Sydney's target is 40%.
Land under tree canopy
Share of the land surveyed under trees taller than 3 m · the dashed line is Greater Sydney's 40% target
From aerial imagery of Greater Sydney's urban and rural areas: the share of land under vegetation taller than 3 metres. A place's figure covers the land the survey reached in it, which leaves out national parks beyond the urban edge and the newest estates. The 2022/23 and 2024/25 surveys share a method, so they compare.
Source DPHI tree canopy 18
Where are the schools in the North Sydney council area, and how is the land zoned?
The North Sydney council area has 7 government schools, and its middle home is 0.8 km in a straight line from its local primary school. Most of its homes are zoned R4 High Density Residential.
Government schools
Source NSW Department of Education 12
How its land is zoned
Share of the council's land area · Main zone by homes: R4 High Density Residential
- Residential58%
- Business and employment9%
- Industrial0%
- Rural and conservation8.3%
- Recreation and special purpose25%
Source NSW EPI zoning and heritage maps 13
Heritage
Homes on a heritage item or in a heritage conservation area: 23% in all · 40% of its land
- On a heritage item8.2%
- In a conservation area14%
- Neither78%
Source NSW EPI zoning and heritage maps 13
How easy is it to reach public transport in the North Sydney council area?
At 8–9am on a weekday, 92% of residents in the North Sydney council area live where public transport access is good: TfNSW level 4 (medium–high) or better, above NSW's 33% (higher is better). Their average level is 5.4 of 6 (high), above NSW's 2.6. The share is much the same as in December 2022.
Average access level, 8–9am
TfNSW's 0–6 level, averaged over residents · weekday timetable, December 2025
TfNSW scores every mesh block (a few dozen homes) for each hour of a weekday from the walk to nearby stops and how often services call there, from 1 (low) to 6 (very high); 0 means no service that hour. A place's figure is the average over the people who live there, not a level TfNSW publishes.
Source TfNSW PTAL 16
Residents with good access
Share living at level 4 (medium–high) or better, 8–9am, each December
Average level by December: 2022 5.4 · 2023 5 · 2024 5.5 · 2025 5.4
Source TfNSW PTAL 16
See public transport access for every suburb in the council on the map
Vehicles
The North Sydney council area had 677 registered vehicles for every 1,000 residents in December 2025 (NSW 737). 3.8% of its cars, four-wheel drives and light goods vehicles were battery electric (NSW 1.8%), and battery electric light vehicles grew 2.65× between December 2023 and October 2026.
Counted at each vehicle's registered address, every December. TfNSW leaves out every count under 20, so a missing row is a small count, not none, and the rows don't add up to the fleet.
Source TfNSW vehicle registrations, CC BY 17
Battery electric share of the light fleet
Cars, four-wheel drives and light goods vehicles · Each December · 2026 to October · TfNSW's last two months are provisional
Source TfNSW vehicle registrations, CC BY 17
Battery electric light vehicles
Registered each December, then October 2026
Source TfNSW vehicle registrations, CC BY 17
Light vehicles by fuel
Cars, four-wheel drives and light goods vehicles, October 2026.
Source TfNSW vehicle registrations, CC BY 17
The most registered makes
October 2026 · Of the makes TfNSW names: it leaves some out, BYD and Polestar among them.
Source TfNSW vehicle registrations, CC BY 17
Registered for business use
Source TfNSW vehicle registrations, CC BY 17
Who's in business in the North Sydney council area?
15,284 businesses registered for GST had an address in the North Sydney council area at 30 June 2025, 207 for every 1,000 residents (NSW 107). 13.8% turn over $2 million or more a year, against 8.8% across NSW. Compared with NSW, more of them are in finance and insurance and media and telecommunications.
Source ABS Data by Region 8
Businesses at 30 June
2021–2025 · the dashed line is NSW's count scaled to this place's usual share
Source ABS Data by Region 8
Turnover and size
Share of businesses by yearly turnover and by employees, June 2025
- Under $50k25%NSW 23%
- $50k to $200k26%NSW 32%
- $200k to $2m36%NSW 36%
- $2m or more14%NSW 8.8%
By employees
- No employees61%NSW 61%
- 1–4 employees26%NSW 28%
- 5–199.1%NSW 8.2%
- 20 or more4.4%NSW 2.5%
Source ABS Data by Region 8
Industry mix
Share of businesses in each industry, June 2025 · most over-represented against NSW first
Source ABS Data by Region 8
Going out
The North Sydney council area had 300 licensed venues on October 2026's list, 4.1 for every 1,000 residents (NSW 1.7): 21 hotels, 8 clubs, 5 small bars, 233 restaurants and other on-premises venues and 33 bottle shops. 29 are licensed past midnight. That's down from 331 in 2021.
Venues per 1,000 residents
October lists, 2021–2026
Each year is that October's list: Liquor & Gaming NSW cancels licences in bulk once a year, so months don't compare. Venues that have stopped trading for six weeks or more, or are suspended, aren't counted. What a licence allows, not when a venue opens, and leaving out clubs, whose licences have no set hours.
Source Liquor & Gaming NSW premises list 23
Licences opened and closed
Licences on the list one October and not the one before, or the other way. Many are cancelled in one day each year for fees unpaid, sometimes long after the venue shut.
Source Liquor & Gaming NSW premises list 23
See licensed venues on the map
Poker machines
The North Sydney council area had 580 poker machines at 15 clubs and hotels in 2025, 7.9 for every 1,000 residents (NSW 10.2). Liquor & Gaming NSW reported its clubs with Mosman and Woollahra, and its hotels with Mosman, so there's no net profit in dollars for this area alone. Bowerbird's estimate, modelled from its venues' rankings and machines, is about $61M, not a published figure. Worked out over the residents of each report's councils, the machines made $594 for each resident (NSW $1,088).
Clubs and hotels in 2025
Net profit is what the machines kept after paying out prizes, before gaming tax. Venues' takings include visitors, so this isn't what the area's own residents lost. Figures per resident divide by everyone who lives here, not only adults. Hotel years run January to December and club years December to November, a month apart.
| 2025 | Clubs | Hotels | Both | NSW |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Venues | 1 | 14 | 15 | 2,125 |
| Machines | 243 | 337 | 580 | 88,019 |
| Machines per 1,000 residents | 3.3 | 4.6 | 7.9 | 10.2 |
| Net profit | reported with Mosman and Woollahra | reported with Mosman | not published alone about $61M estimated | $9.35bn |
| Net profit per resident | $155 combined area | $439 combined area | $594 with combined area | $1,088 |
The estimate: Bowerbird's model of what each club's and hotel's machines kept after paying out prizes, before gaming tax, fitted to Liquor & Gaming NSW's venue rankings, machine counts and council totals and added up by where the venues are. Liquor & Gaming NSW publishes no such figure, so read it as a rough one: a venue that made a loss reads as a small profit, and where clubs' own accounts were reported, most read 5% to 12% below the model. Venues' takings include visitors, so this isn't what the area's own residents lost. Hotel years run January to December and club years December to November.
Source Liquor & Gaming NSW gaming machine reports 21 · Bowerbird estimate, from Liquor & Gaming NSW 22
Net profit per resident
2017–2026 · 2026 is to June (clubs to May) · a year when a report combined this council shows the combined area's rate
Source Liquor & Gaming NSW gaming machine reports 21
Machines per 1,000 residents
2017–2026 · 2026 is to June (clubs to May)
Source Liquor & Gaming NSW gaming machine reports 21
Where every number comes from
- ABS Census of Population and Housing 2021, General Community Profile for NSW Local Government Areas. Residents, age, household income, mortgages, tenure and dwelling type, for the council area as ABS publishes it. CC BY 4.0.
- NSW Valuer General, Property Sales Information, each sale placed at its G-NAF address. Market sales, 2001 to 2 November 2026, one price per dealing, under the suburb figures' rules (no bulk, part or nominal sales). A sale counts in the council its address is in; sales that matched no address, about one in ten, and the few spanning two councils are left out. Medians need at least 5 sales, growth 20 at both ends. Homes are what VG records as a residence; vacant land and commercial, farm and other property are counted apart. Settlement times go by the year a sale settled, and the latest year is still filling in.
- NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research, recorded criminal incidents by LGA (RCI_offencebymonth). BOCSAR's own council table, 2001–2025. Rates per 1,000 residents use the ABS estimated resident population of the same year. CC BY 4.0.
- ABS Socio-Economic Indexes for Areas (SEIFA) 2021, Local Government Areas. The council's own scores. Percentiles rank it among the 128 NSW councils; deciles are against all of Australia. CC BY 4.0.
- NSW RFS Bush Fire Prone Land, matched to G-NAF addresses. The full certified map (vegetation categories 1–3 and the buffer), every live address tested. © NSW Rural Fire Service 2026, CC BY. A planning designation, not a risk rating.
- NSW flood planning areas mapped by LEPs and precinct SEPPs (DPHI), matched to G-NAF addresses. Only councils whose LEP maps a flood planning area, plus Western Sydney precinct maps. Councils have kept their own flood maps since July 2021, so check with the council for the latest. CC BY 3.0 AU.
- Australian Bureau of Statistics, Regional Population: estimated resident population by council (LGA 2025), 30 June 2001–2025 (ABS Data API). The ABS's own estimate for the council area of the people who usually live there at 30 June, updated every year from the Census, births, deaths and migration (June 2025 figures, released March 2026). People per km² are over the council's area. Growth is left out where fewer than 100 people lived the year before. CC BY 4.0.
- Australian Bureau of Statistics, Data by Region: personal income in Australia (from personal income tax returns, 2018–19 to 2022–23) and Counts of Australian Businesses (30 June 2021–2025), by council (LGA 2021, ABS Data API). The ABS's own figures for the council area. Income counts the residents who lodged a tax return, by where they live; government pensions and allowances are left out, so it differs from the Census household income. Businesses are those registered for GST, counted by the address they give; per 1,000 residents uses the ABS estimated resident population at the same 30 June. CC BY 4.0.
- Australian Electoral Commission, House of Representatives results by polling place, and votes by where electors live (SA1), federal elections 2007–2025 (AEC Tally Room). Votes are counted where they are cast, not where voters live, so a place's figures are estimates. For 2019 and 2022 they come from the AEC's count of votes by the SA1 electors live in, which places nearly every vote; for the other elections, each election-day vote is placed at the polling places nearest the homes in its division, shared by their residents (2021 Census), and pre-poll, postal and absent votes can't be placed. So each figure shows the share of its electorates' formal votes it is built from. Two-party-preferred is Labor against the Coalition. Electorates, members and candidates are the AEC's own results for each whole division. © Commonwealth of Australia (Australian Electoral Commission), CC BY 4.0.
- NSW Electoral Commission, Legislative Assembly results by polling place (state elections 2015–2023) and local government results by council, ward and mayoralty (2021 and 2024), from its past results site. State figures are estimates, as for federal: each election-day vote is placed at the polling places nearest the homes in its district, shared by their residents (2021 Census), and pre-poll, postal, iVote and absent votes can't be placed, so each figure shows the share of its districts' formal votes it is built from. Two-party-preferred is Labor against the Coalition, from NSWEC's two-candidate count where the final two were Labor and the Coalition; districts where they weren't have no two-party figure. Council results are NSWEC's own counts for each council, ward and mayoralty, not estimates; a council's polling places place it, never its name. Districts, members, councillors and candidates are NSWEC's own results. © State of New South Wales through the NSW Electoral Commission, CC BY 4.0.
- Clean Energy Regulator, small-scale installations by postcode, shared out to councils. CER counts systems by postcode only. Each postal area's count is shared between councils by its 2021 dwellings (ABS mesh blocks), so a council's figure is an estimate; per 100 separate houses at the 2021 Census, not growth-adjusted.
- NSW Department of Education school intake zones and public schools master dataset (data.nsw.gov.au), matched to G-NAF addresses. Editions of 2 Oct 2026. Every live address is tested against each catchment. Enrolment is the August census (full-time equivalent); ICSEA as the department publishes it. Government schools only. CC BY.
- NSW EPI Primary Planning Layers (DPHI): land zoning and heritage items and conservation areas of every LEP and SEPP. Zone shares by land area in ABS 2021 boundaries; heritage shares of G-NAF addresses, each tested at its point. The instrument's map, not legal advice: the instrument and a planning certificate decide what applies to a lot. CC BY 3.0 AU.
- Transport for NSW Centre for Road Safety, NSW Crash Data (opendata.transport.nsw.gov.au), placed by each crash's coordinates. Police-reported crashes, reporting years 2016–2025, each year from the newest of the centre's five-year windows that covers it (2016–2020 to 2021–2025; the newest edition of 8 Oct 2026): fatal, injury and towaway crashes, with the road users involved. Rates per 1,000 residents use the ABS estimated resident population averaged over the same years, shown where at least 200 people live. Crash counts follow traffic, so busy roads and centres read high. CC BY.
- Revenue NSW, parking and food safety offences by issuing agency, CC BY. Penalty notices issued each financial year, counted by the council that issued them. Parking fines per 1,000 residents use the ABS estimated resident population, and are left blank in a year a council issued fewer than 100; the latest year runs only to the latest month in the files. Value is face value when issued, not what was paid. Fines issued by police, universities, hospitals and other state agencies on state land are no council's and aren't counted, nor in the NSW figure. Food safety counts can include notices with a miscoded offence.
- Transport for NSW, Public Transport Accessibility Level (PTAL) by ABS 2021 mesh block (opendata.transport.nsw.gov.au). December 2022–2025 snapshots, each a weekday's timetable (the first Tuesday in December; school buses excluded). TfNSW bands its accessibility index from the walk to nearby stops and how often they are served into levels 1 (low) to 6 (very high); 0 is our code for a mesh block with no service that hour. Averaged over residents (ABS 2021 mesh-block counts) for suburbs, postcodes and councils: a summary, not a level TfNSW publishes. CC BY.
- Transport for NSW, vehicle registration statistics by council, CC BY. TfNSW's monthly counts of registered vehicles by council, counted at the customer's address, so a business fleet counts where its customer's address is. We keep each December and the latest month; TfNSW's last two months are provisional. Rates per 1,000 residents use the ABS estimated resident population. TfNSW hides counts under 20, so a council's shares are estimates, scaled to its fleet totals, and less certain in small councils; the fuel, type and make counts leave those rows out. Shares of the light fleet and the average age start with the first December after TfNSW changed how it places vehicles in councils, and the average age runs a year behind the rest. Makes are those TfNSW names.
- NSW Department of Planning, Housing and Infrastructure, Greater Sydney Region Tree Canopy to Modified Mesh Block, 2022 and 2024/25 (SEED). Aerial surveys of Greater Sydney's urban and rural areas (ArborCarbon, 0.48 m imagery; the 2022 and 2024/25 surveys share a method). The share of land under vegetation taller than 3 m, summed from DPHI's modified mesh blocks to ABS mesh blocks (those at least half surveyed, with a 2016 code that is also a 2021 one) and weighted by the land surveyed for suburbs, postcodes and councils. CC BY 4.0.
- Revenue NSW, duty, first home buyer and land tax statistics by postcode (revenue.nsw.gov.au), data as at 1 October 2026. Financial years to June 2026, each shown once it has ended: first home buyer duty exemptions and concessions from 2009–10, First Home Owner Grant payments from 2021–22 and transfer duty on residential land from 2020–21, each by the postcode on the lodged transfer or the grant. Exemptions are counted at lodgement and grants at payment, so the two don't match; duty is the amount paid, not a count of sales. Suburb and council figures are estimates, shared out from postcodes by their 2021 dwellings (ABS mesh blocks). CC BY.
- Land value summaries, Valuer General NSW: each council's summary at the 1 July 2025 valuation. The Valuer General's own council figures: total land value by zone at 1 July 2025 and 2024, and the median residential land value each year from 2021 beside the median residential sale price. Land values are for rates and land tax and value the land alone. No licence is stated on the pages.
- Liquor & Gaming NSW, gaming machine reports, © State of New South Wales, CC BY 4.0. Net profit, machines and venues for clubs and hotels, by council and by venue, from December 2016. Machines are authorised machines at a year's last report, and can include machines in storage. Small councils are reported together with neighbours, and those groups change between reports: a council with a combined report has no net profit in dollars of its own, and its figure per resident is worked out over the residents of the councils in each report (ABS estimated resident population). Machines and venues are each council's own, summed from the venue reports. Hotel years run January to December and club years December to November.
- Bowerbird estimate, modelled from Liquor & Gaming NSW's gaming machine reports, © State of New South Wales, CC BY 4.0. Our estimate of each club's and hotel's net profit from its machines, before gaming tax, from 2017 (suburbs from 2021). Liquor & Gaming NSW publishes each venue's rank by net profit and its machines, and dollars only by council; the model fits the ranks to the council totals and adds the venues up by the postcode and council the rankings give and the suburb the premises list places them in. It isn't a published figure, and this release has a range for a venue (the map's venue card) but none for an area: on council rows held back, its median error is under 1%, and where clubs' own accounts were reported, most read 5% to 12% below it. A venue with a loss reads as a small profit. Takings include visitors. The latest year is a part year.
- Liquor & Gaming NSW, licensed premises list, each October from 2021, © State of New South Wales, CC BY 4.0. Licences with premises people go to, placed by the list's own coordinates. Limited licences, pop-ups, producers and delivery-only businesses aren't counted, nor are venues that have stopped trading for six weeks or more. Hours tiers are what a licence allows, not when a venue opens. The list's licensees aren't shown.
- ABS Australian Statistical Geography Standard: LGAs 2021 and 2025, suburbs and localities, postal areas. Councils are their LGA 2021 areas, named as ABS LGA 2025 names them: in NSW every 2021 council is the same area in 2025, and 14 have a shorter name. Boundaries CC BY 4.0.
- Bureau of Health Information. Healthcare Quarterly: Ambulance. Sydney (NSW); BHI. Free to use for non-commercial purposes with BHI acknowledged. NSW Ambulance responses and incidents by financial year, and emergency (category 2) response times for the latest quarter, as BHI reports them by ABS statistical area (SA3). A suburb, postcode or council takes the figures of the SA3 around it, so they are the wider area's, not its own. Rates per 1,000 residents use the SA3's ABS estimated resident population. NSW Ambulance changed its response grid in February 2025, so responses either side of it don't strictly compare.
- Australian Bureau of Statistics, Building Approvals, Australia, CC BY 4.0: dwelling units and the value of building work approved by council (ABS Data API). The ABS's own council figures: dwelling units approved each month from July 2021, by councils and private certifiers (new houses, townhouses and apartments, and the dwellings alterations create), and the value of residential and non-residential building work approved, added up by financial year to June. An approval is what may be built, not what was. Per 1,000 residents divides by the ABS estimated resident population at the start of the year. Original series, not seasonally adjusted.
- © State of New South Wales (Spatial Services, a business unit of the Department of Customer Service NSW) 2026, StrataHub strata plans. The register of strata schemes as at 3 November 2026, each placed through its plan number or footprint at its G-NAF addresses and counted where most of them are. Lots include the garages, storerooms and shops a plan makes lots of; the share of addresses counts a scheme's units and common property. Ages and eras date each scheme's registration, not its building. A scheme that has been wound up leaves the register. Creative Commons (no version stated).
- NSW Department of Communities and Justice, Rent and Sales Report, from NSW Fair Trading bond lodgements, © State of New South Wales (Department of Communities and Justice), CC BY 4.0. Rents on the new bonds lodged each quarter since September 2017, by council: DCJ places each bond at its home's address, so these are the council's own figures, not shared out from postcodes. A figure needs more than 10 bonds; the headline figures and the chart need 31 or more. New leases only, so not what every renter pays.
Every council figure is computed from its source at council level, not from its suburbs' figures. ATO incomes are published by postcode only and a median can't be shared out, so this page leaves them off: the Census 2021 household income stands in. Its rents are NSW Communities and Justice's own council figures, which place each new bond at its home's address. A suburb belongs to the council its centre falls in; suburb figures are the suburb pages' own.