NSW/Councils/Penrith·LGA 16350

Penrith

Council area32 suburbs8 postcodes217,664 residents (2021)405 km²

Suburbs: Glenmore Park·St Clair·Penrith·Cranebrook·St Marys·South Penrith·Jordan Springs·Kingswood·Colyton·Emu Plains·+ 22 more

Postcodes: 2750·2747·2760·2745·2759·2749·2753·2748

The short version

The Penrith council area takes in 32 suburbs, from Glenmore Park and St Clair to Regentville, home to 217,664 people at the 2021 Census1. Homes sold for a median $958k in 2025 across 3,876 sales2, up 70.8% on ten years ago, higher than 74% of NSW councils (all NSW: $943k).

Police recorded 77.9 incidents per 1,000 residents in 20253, 1.2 times the NSW rate (lower is better). On the ABS index of advantage it sits in the 70th percentile of NSW councils4, and its median household earned $1,903 a week in 2021. 16% of its addresses are on mapped bush fire prone land5. On flood maps: 6.7% in a 1% AEP or flood planning area and 21% in the probable maximum flood only26627. That's a lower bound: the other 72% have no flood map to check.

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Median sale price, 2025
$958k
3,876 sales · higher than 74% of NSW councils

NSW Valuer General sales 2

Recorded crime, 2025
77.9
per 1,000 residents · 1.2× the NSW rate (66) · lower is better

BOCSAR recorded crime 3

Socio-economic advantage
70th
percentile among NSW councils (SEIFA IRSAD, decile 8 in Australia)

ABS SEIFA 2021 4

Homes on bush fire prone land
16%
of addresses · 28% in a flood map (a lower bound)

NSW RFS bush fire prone land 5

01Prices

What do homes sell for across the Penrith council area?

Homes in the Penrith council area sold for a median $958k in 2025 across 3,876 sales, against $943k for every NSW sale together: higher than 74% of NSW councils. The median is up 70.8% 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

All dwellingsHousesUnitsAll NSW sales

Source NSW Valuer General sales 2

Median, 2025
$958kall dwellings
Houses
$1.1M2025
Units
$665k2025
Sales in 2025
3,876
5-year growth
+48.6%
10-year growth
+70.8%

Source NSW Valuer General sales 2

Sales each year

One per dealing · 2026 to 2 Nov

Source NSW Valuer General sales 2

Where it sits in NSW

Every council's 2025 median, log scale

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 · 7.3% 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: $875k median across 181 sales, $2,034 per m² · 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 · 625 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: 129 sales, median $1.3M

Source NSW Valuer General sales 2

Renting

New leases in the Penrith council area went for a median $620 a week in April to June 2026, against $720 across NSW. That's 3.3% more than a year earlier.

Median, Apr–Jun 2026
$620a week · NSW $720
Houses
$675NSW $700
Units
$550NSW $730
2-bed unit
$550NSW $750
3-bed house
$650NSW $660
New bonds
1,804in the quarter

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

Every homeHousesUnitsNSW

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 homeHousesUnitsTownhouses
Any$620$530–730$675$580–790$550$460–630$620$560–668
1 bed$430$380–550$400$335–458$500$386–570–
2 beds$540$480–600$530$495–560$550$480–630$550†$511–578
3 beds$650$600–700$650$600–700$655$600–708$615$580–650
4+ beds$800$750–900$820$750–900–$700†$676–750

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

2,314 strata schemes are registered in the Penrith council area, with 18,271 lots between them, and 20% of its addresses are in one (NSW 25%). They were registered 20.9 years ago on average (NSW 29.1), which dates the scheme, not always its building.

Strata schemes
2,314
Strata lots
18,271
Addresses in a scheme
20%NSW: 25%
Average scheme age
20.9years since registration · NSW: 29.1

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%

1961 Act · to 19740.6%
1973 Act · 1974–9726%
1996 Act · 1997–201647%
2015 Acts · since 201627%

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

Building approvals

1,528 dwellings were approved in the Penrith council area in 2025–26, 6.6 for every 1,000 residents (NSW 6.1): 645 houses and 883 other dwellings, such as townhouses and apartments. The building work approved was worth $776M for homes and $1.24bn for other buildings.

Dwellings approved

Each financial year to June · dashed: NSW at this area's usual share

Source ABS Building Approvals 28

Dwellings approved, 2025–26
1,528
Per 1,000 residents
6.6NSW: 6.1
Houses
645
Other dwellings
883townhouses, apartments
Residential work
$776Mvalue approved
Non-residential work
$1.24bnvalue approved

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

Land values

At 1 July 2025 the Valuer General valued the land in the Penrith council area at $78.2bn, up 6.5% on a year before. Residential land makes up $48.2bn of it (62%). The median residential land value in 2025 was $665,000, 63% of the median residential sale price.

Land value by zone, 1 July 2025

Every property's land value, totalled by its zone

Residential$48.2bn
Commercial$6.44bn
Industrial$12.6bn
Rural$8.37bn
Other zones$2.7bn

Total $78.2bn, against $73.5bn at 1 July 2024 (+6.5%)

Land value is the land alone, without the home or anything else built on it: what the Valuer General sets at 1 July each year for council rates and land tax.

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

2021$461k · 57%
2022$553k · 62%
2023$525k · 60%
2024$594k · 61%
2025$665k · 63%

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

First home buyers and transfer duty

In 2025–26, about 774 first home buyers in the Penrith council area were let off transfer duty or paid less under a NSW first home buyer scheme, down from 1,135 the year before. That's 2.4% of the 32,137 across NSW. Revenue NSW paid about 13 First Home Owner Grants here. Transfer duty on residential property here came to about $209.5M, 2.0% 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

Exemptions and concessionsNSW at its usual share (3.9%)

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

Grants paidNSW at its usual share (3.1%)

NSW, 2025–26: 636

Transfer duty paid on residential land

Duty paid each financial year, estimated from postcode figures

Duty paidNSW at its usual share (1.7%)

NSW, 2025–26: $10.6bn

Against NSW2020–212025–26Change
Duty here (estimate)$112.3M$209.5M+87%
NSW duty on residential land$7.83bn$10.7bn+37%
NSW residential transfers215,274200,697−7%

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

02Suburbs & postcodes

Which suburbs make up the Penrith council area?

The Penrith council area takes in 32 suburbs across 8 postcodes.

Every suburb in the council

Most residents first · each links to its own page

SuburbResidentsMedian, 2025Sales10 yearsCrime per 1,000, 2025Advantage
Glenmore Park25,021$1.13M384+72%23.880th
St Clair19,942$1.15M231+86%27.339th
Penrith17,966$638k649+20%260.621st
Cranebrook15,779$1.02M239+81%47.238th
St Marys13,256$806k364+70%171.311th
South Penrith12,005$1.08M192+84%52.438th
Jordan Springs11,772$1.03M253+55%26.786th
Kingswood10,633$755k303+59%150.614th
Colyton8,770$1.02M128+88%51.511th
Emu Plains8,126$1.1M127+82%57.559th
Cambridge Park7,054$993k134+86%55.012th
Erskine Park6,486$1.19M67+78%33.055th
Werrington5,328$795k175+67%105.919th
Jamisontown5,321$730k139+62%101.034th
Claremont Meadows5,177$1.15M96+91%28.660th
Oxley Park4,197$803k102+62%49.514th
North St Marys4,123$1M48+92%156.62nd
Londonderry4,024$1.85M35+85%45.939th
Werrington County3,698$1.01M51+76%36.837th
Caddens3,487$1.2M63–16.891st
Werrington Downs3,221$1.07M41+98%19.451st
Emu Heights3,205$1.1M49+90%23.773rd
Leonay2,582$1.3M36+74%20.089th
Berkshire Park2,149$2.8M7–59.136th
Kemps Creek2,121$4.5M12–72.036th
Mulgoa2,044$1.68M21+31%39.583rd
Cambridge Gardens2,030$979k27+75%86.436th
Orchard Hills1,798$5.5M17–49.761st
Llandilo1,618$2.48M12–57.035th
Castlereagh1,248$2.7M9–70.665th
Mount Vernon1,235$3.8M7–20.387th
Regentville829$1.26M12–57.060th

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): Wallacia 71%, Luddenham 60%, Agnes Banks 51%, Badgerys Creek 16%.

Its postcodes

Postal areas holding at least 1% of the council's addresses, with that share · each links to its own page

275029%
274724%
276015%
274512%
27599.5%
27496.5%
27531.9%
27481.1%

Source ABS ASGS 2021 and LGA 2025 24

03People

Who lives in the Penrith council area?

On income, education, jobs and housing together, the Penrith council area scores 981 on the ABS index of advantage, higher than 69% of NSW councils. Its median household earned $1,903 a week at the 2021 Census.

SEIFA 2021 deciles

1 = most disadvantaged tenth of Australian council areas, 10 = most advantaged

Advantage and disadvantageIRSAD8
DisadvantageIRSD · higher = less disadvantaged6
Economic resourcesIER8
Education and occupationIEO6

Among NSW councils it sits in the 70th percentile on IRSAD.

Source ABS SEIFA 2021 4

Census 2021 profile

Residents (2021)
217,664
Median age
35
Aged 65 and over
13%
Median household income
$1,903 a week
Households renting
33.8%
Social housing
3.3%
Owned outright
25.1%
With a mortgage
39.9%
Median mortgage (2021)
$2,167 a month
Flats and apartments
9.1%
People per km²
538

Source ABS Census 2021 1

Household income across NSW

Every council's median weekly household income, Census 2021

Source ABS Census 2021 1

Advantage across NSW

Every council's SEIFA IRSAD score

Source ABS SEIFA 2021 4

How households hold their homes

Share of households, Census 2021 · renting privately leaves out social housing, which the Census counts as renting

Source ABS Census 2021 1

Population

An estimated 231,701 people lived in the Penrith council area at 30 June 2025, up 1.2% on a year earlier, against +1.2% across NSW. That's 34,023 more people than in 2015 (+17.2%).

Residents, June 2025
231,701estimated
Growth, year to June 2025
+1.2%NSW +1.2%
Since June 2015
+17.2%+34,023 people
People per km²
573NSW 11

Source ABS Regional Population 7

Residents at 30 June

ABS estimated resident population, 2001–2025

Source ABS Regional Population 7

Growth each year

Change over the year to 30 June, against NSW

Penrith grewshrankNSW that year

Source ABS Regional Population 7

Income

The Census counts households' income once in five years ($1,903 a week in 2021); the ABS's yearly figure from tax returns counts each person's. Residents of the Penrith council area who lodged a tax return had a median income of $63,669 in 2022–23, against $58,909 across NSW. That's 16.2% more than in 2018–19 (NSW +19%). For 87.6%, most income came from wages and salaries.

Median income, 2022–23
$63,669NSW $58,909
Since 2018–19
+16.2%NSW +19%
Rank in NSW
…percentile of councils

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

PenrithNSW

Source ABS Data by Region 8

Where income comes from

The source most of each person's income came from, 2022–23

Median income from each source

Among the people with any income from it

Wages and salariesNSW $63,301
$66,503
Own businessNSW $12,714
$12,062
InvestmentsNSW $240
$90
Super and annuitiesNSW $26,108
$22,639

Source ABS Data by Region 8

04Elections

How did the Penrith council area vote?

Federal elections

At the 2025 federal election, the two-party-preferred vote in the Penrith council area split an estimated 50.5% Labor to 49.5% Coalition, against 55.3% to 44.7% across NSW. That's a swing of 5.4 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

Labor, two-party-preferred
50.5%NSW 55.3%
Swing to Labor since 2022
+5.4 ptsNSW +3.9 pts
Informal votes
11.6%NSW 8.1%
Built from
46%of the votes cast in its electorates

First preferences

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

PenrithNSW50%, level

Votes each estimate is built from: 2007 84% · 2010 82% · 2013 74% · 2016 71% · 2019 100% · 2022 100% · 2025 46%

Source AEC Tally Room federal election results (31496) · AEC, CC BY 4.0 9

Its 4 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

Lindsay

Elected: Melissa McINTOSH (Liberal)

Final count, two candidates

Melissa McINTOSHLiberal52.8%
Hollie McLEANLabor47.2%
First preferences, 10 candidates
Melissa McINTOSHLiberal39.7%
Hollie McLEANLabor32.1%
Aaron David McALLISTERThe Greens9.6%
Christopher BUCKLEYPauline Hanson's One Nation6.9%
Joseph O'CONNORTrumpet of Patriots3.1%
Antony Victor EMMANUELFamily First2.5%
Vanessa BLAZIAnimal Justice Party1.9%
Carl HALLEYShooters, Fishers and Farmers Party1.9%
Michelle PALMERHEART Party1.3%
Jim SALEAMIndependent1.1%

121,306 enrolled · 98,146 formal votes · 10.9% informal

Results on the AEC site
McMahon

Elected: Chris BOWEN (Labor)

Final count, two candidates

Chris BOWENLabor59.0%
Carmen LAZARLiberal41.0%
First preferences, 5 candidates
Chris BOWENLabor45.5%
Carmen LAZARLiberal26.8%
Matthew CAMENZULIIndependent9.8%
Ben HAMMONDThe Greens9.1%
Melissa JANICSKAPauline Hanson's One Nation8.7%

120,536 enrolled · 97,835 formal votes · 10.6% informal

Results on the AEC site
Macquarie

Elected: Susan TEMPLEMAN (Labor)

Final count, two candidates

Susan TEMPLEMANLabor57.7%
Mike CREEDLiberal42.3%
First preferences, 6 candidates
Susan TEMPLEMANLabor42.6%
Mike CREEDLiberal31.6%
Terry MORGANThe Greens12.5%
Matthew JACOBSONPauline Hanson's One Nation8.7%
Roger Gerard BOWENFamily First2.9%
Joaquim Eduardo DE LIMALibertarian1.6%

121,939 enrolled · 109,705 formal votes · 4.2% informal

Results on the AEC site
Hume

Elected: Angus TAYLOR (Liberal)

Final count, two candidates

Angus TAYLORLiberal58.1%
Thomas HUANGLabor41.9%
First preferences, 8 candidates
Angus TAYLORLiberal43.8%
Thomas HUANGLabor27.2%
Steve BRUCEThe Greens8.5%
Helen DUCKERPauline Hanson's One Nation8.0%
Peter McLEANIndependent4.5%
Troy WOZNIAKTrumpet of Patriots3.5%
Bryan SEIDELFamily First2.7%
Adrian REESLibertarian1.7%

117,449 enrolled · 99,467 formal votes · 8.9% informal

Results on the AEC site

Source AEC Tally Room federal election results (31496) · AEC, CC BY 4.0 9

State elections

At the 2023 state election, the two-party-preferred vote in the Penrith council area split an estimated 52.0% Labor to 48.0% Coalition, against 54.9% to 45.1% across NSW. That's a swing of 5.8 points to Labor since 2019 (across NSW, 5.7 points to Labor). 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

Labor, two-party-preferred
52.0%NSW 54.9%
Swing to Labor since 2019
+5.8 ptsNSW +5.7 pts
Informal votes
4.6%NSW 3.3%
Built from
52%of the votes cast in its electorates

First preferences

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

Labor's two-party-preferred share

Each state election, against NSW · above each point, the swing since the election before

PenrithNSW50%, level

Votes each estimate is built from: 2015 70% · 2019 66% · 2023 52%

Source NSW Electoral Commission past election results (SG2301) · NSWEC, CC BY 4.0 10

Its 3 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

Penrith

Elected: Karen McKEOWN (Australian Labor Party (NSW Branch))

Final count, two candidates

Karen McKEOWNAustralian Labor Party (NSW Branch)51.6%
Stuart AYRESThe Liberal Party of Australia, New South Wales Division48.4%
First preferences, 7 candidates
Stuart AYRESThe Liberal Party of Australia, New South Wales Division38.3%
Karen McKEOWNAustralian Labor Party (NSW Branch)38.3%
Belinda McWILLIAMSPauline Hanson's One Nation8.2%
Fatemeh (Minoo) TOUSSIThe Greens NSW5.2%
Timothy PATEMANLegalise Cannabis NSW Party4.9%
Vanessa BLAZIAnimal Justice Party3.7%
Geoff BROWNSustainable Australia Party - Stop Overdevelopment / Corruption1.5%

59,658 enrolled · 50,344 formal votes · 3.9% informal

Results on the NSW Electoral Commission site
Londonderry

Elected: Prue CAR (Australian Labor Party (NSW Branch))

Final count, two candidates

Prue CARAustralian Labor Party (NSW Branch)63.7%
Snigdha (Samantha) TALAKOLAThe Liberal Party of Australia, New South Wales Division36.3%
First preferences, 5 candidates
Prue CARAustralian Labor Party (NSW Branch)54.3%
Snigdha (Samantha) TALAKOLAThe Liberal Party of Australia, New South Wales Division30.0%
Luke TESTERPauline Hanson's One Nation8.2%
David MAURICEThe Greens NSW5.0%
David BOWENSustainable Australia Party - Stop Overdevelopment / Corruption2.5%

61,482 enrolled · 51,725 formal votes · 3.8% informal

Results on the NSW Electoral Commission site
Badgerys Creek

Elected: Tanya DAVIES (The Liberal Party of Australia, New South Wales Division)

Final count, two candidates

Tanya DAVIESThe Liberal Party of Australia, New South Wales Division60.5%
Garion THAINAustralian Labor Party (NSW Branch)39.5%
First preferences, 5 candidates
Tanya DAVIESThe Liberal Party of Australia, New South Wales Division51.8%
Garion THAINAustralian Labor Party (NSW Branch)32.2%
Benjamin GREENPauline Hanson's One Nation8.2%
Nick BESTThe Greens NSW5.3%
Peter COOPERSustainable Australia Party - Stop Overdevelopment / Corruption2.5%

60,267 enrolled · 52,078 formal votes · 3.8% informal

Results on the NSW Electoral Commission site

Source NSW Electoral Commission past election results (SG2301) · NSWEC, CC BY 4.0 10

Council elections

At the 2024 council election, Labor took the most first preferences for councillor in the Penrith council area, 33.9%, and of the 15 councillors elected, Labor 9, Independents 3, Coalition 2 and Local teams and other parties 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

Councillors elected

Labor 9 · Independents 3 · Coalition 2 · Local teams and other parties 1

Source NSW Electoral Commission past election results (LG2401) · NSWEC, CC BY 4.0 10

Its 2024 council elections

3 wards · the NSW Electoral Commission's own counts

City of Penrith - East Ward

Elected: Libby AUSTIN (Australian Labor Party (NSW Branch)), Todd CARNEY (Australian Labor Party (NSW Branch)), Sarbjeet KAUR (Australian Labor Party (NSW Branch)), Edwin MIFSUD (Australian Labor Party (NSW Branch)), Garion THAIN (Australian Labor Party (NSW Branch))

0 formal votes

Results on the NSW Electoral Commission site
City of Penrith North Ward

Elected: John THAIN (Labor), Robin COOK (Labor), Glenn GARDINER (IND), Ross FOWLER (Liberal), Reece NUTTALL (Liberal)

First preferences, 30 candidates
Group D — LIBERALabove the line35.1%
Group A — LABORabove the line30.3%
Group Cabove the line8.6%
Group E — THE GREENSabove the line7.8%
Group Babove the line7.5%
Ross FOWLERLiberal2.0%
John THAINLabor2.0%
Amanda CARDWELLIND1.5%
Glenn GARDINERIND1.0%
Kevin CRAMERIIND0.9%
Shafaq JAFFERYThe Greens0.5%
Kyra QUINLIVANLabor0.4%
Robin COOKLabor0.4%
Julie FLETCHERLiberal0.3%
Laine FOXLabor0.2%
Reece NUTTALLLiberal0.2%
Nick BESTThe Greens0.1%
Geetha RAJAGOPALANIND0.1%
Jacquie WILSONThe Greens0.1%
Bradley HULLSLabor0.1%
Josie MONTELEONEIND0.1%
Dennis GOLDINGLiberal0.1%
Ross CARDWELLIND0.1%
Damian GRIGGSIND0.1%
Elizabeth CURTISIND0.1%
Barbara MURPHYIND0.1%
Varun THAKKARIND0.1%
Zeeshan ABDULThe Greens0.0%
Enid GOLDINGLiberal0.0%
David MAURICEThe Greens0.0%

40,504 formal votes · 7.8% informal

Results on the NSW Electoral Commission site
City of Penrith South Ward

Elected: Sue DAY (IND), Faithe SKINNER (IND), Vanessa POLLAK (Libertarian Party), Hollie McLEAN (Labor), Kirstie BOERST (Labor)

First preferences, 18 candidates
Group C — LABORabove the line30.4%
Group B — LIBERTARIAN PARTY (FORMERLY LIBERAL DEMOCRATS)above the line28.6%
Group Aabove the line28.6%
Sue DAYIND4.7%
Hollie McLEANLabor2.1%
Vanessa POLLAKLibertarian Party1.9%
Mohinder SINGHLabor1.3%
Faithe SKINNERIND0.3%
Roxanne VINESLibertarian Party0.3%
Kirstie BOERSTLabor0.3%
Rebecca CARROLLIND0.2%
Neal BATESIND0.2%
Vanessa PERICICHLibertarian Party0.2%
Jason FRASERLibertarian Party0.2%
Lorraine FORDHAMLabor0.2%
Mitchell HEARNELabor0.2%
Jo-Anne TOPPIND0.1%
Lain VINCENTLibertarian Party0.1%

37,778 formal votes · 9.1% informal

Results on the NSW Electoral Commission site

Source NSW Electoral Commission past election results (LG2401) · NSWEC, CC BY 4.0 10

05Safety

How much crime is recorded in the Penrith council area?

Police recorded 77.9 incidents per 1,000 residents in the Penrith council area in 2025, 1.2 times the NSW rate (66; lower is better): higher than 56% of NSW councils.

Recorded crime per 1,000 residents

All offences except transport fare evasion · BOCSAR's council figures

PenrithNSW (every council together)

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 crime1.2× NSW

13.4NSW 11.2 · 3,102 incidents

Property crime1.2× NSW

25.9NSW 21.2 · 5,992 incidents

Domestic violence assault1.2× NSW

5.2NSW 4.4 · 1,211 incidents

Home break-ins1.0× NSW

2NSW 2.1 · 469 incidents

Vehicle theft1.2× NSW

5.6NSW 4.7 · 1,306 incidents

Source BOCSAR recorded crime 3

How it ranks

Every council's 2025 rate, log scale

Source BOCSAR recorded crime 3

Road crashes

Police recorded 3,413 crashes in which someone was killed or injured in the Penrith council area over 2016–2025, about 341 a year; 1,080 of them were fatal or caused a serious injury. That's 1.6 a year per 1,000 residents, close to the NSW rate (1.7). 51% 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 · 3,413 over 2016–2025, and 1,589 more where a vehicle was towed away and no one was hurt

Someone killed or seriously injuredOther injury

Source TfNSW NSW Crash Data 14

How severe, and who was involved

2016–2025 together

Casualty crashes a year per 1,000 residents
1.6about the NSW rate (1.7)
Fatal or serious-injury crashes
1,080
People killed
54
Involving a pedestrian
220crashes
Involving a cyclist
115crashes
Involving a motorcycle
535crashes

Source TfNSW NSW Crash Data 14

Streets with the most casualty crashes

Within the Penrith council area, 2016–2025

Great Western Highway399 casualty crashes · 103 fatal or serious399
The Northern Road261 casualty crashes · 86 fatal or serious261
Western Expressway228 casualty crashes · 80 fatal or serious228
Mulgoa Road187 casualty crashes · 67 fatal or serious187
Mamre Road176 casualty crashes · 64 fatal or serious176
Crash counts follow traffic as well as risk: places crossed by highways and motorways, and busy centres such as the Sydney CBD, count the crashes of everyone who drives, rides or walks through, not only residents. Each crash is placed where police recorded it, often the nearest intersection, and only police-reported crashes are counted.

Source TfNSW NSW Crash Data 14

Fines the council issues

The council issued 12,098 parking fines in 2025–26, 52.2 for every 1,000 residents of the Penrith council area (NSW councils together: 150.6), with a face value of $2.33M. It issued 44 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

Parking fines issued, 2025–26
12,098
Per 1,000 residents
52.2NSW councils: 150.6
Their face value
$2.33M
Food safety fines, 2025–26
44

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.

Food safety fines show how a council deals with breaches, by fine or by warning, not how clean its kitchens are.

Source Revenue NSW fines, CC BY 15

Ambulance

In 2025–26, ambulances were sent 180.4 times for every 1,000 residents of the area around the Penrith council area (NSW 182.2). In April to June 2026, half of its emergency calls were reached within 12.4 minutes and nine in ten within 28.5 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

Penrith's areaNSW

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

Median response, April to June 2026
12.4minutes · NSW 14
Nine in ten reached within
28.5minutes · NSW 33
Ambulances sent per 1,000, 2025–26
180.4NSW 182.2
Incidents per 1,000, 2025–26
136.2NSW 138.3

Emergency (category 2) calls. Half are reached within the median, and nine in ten within the 90th percentile; lower is quicker.

BHI reports ambulance work by ABS statistical area (SA3), so these are the figures for the wider area around here, shared by every suburb in it, not this place's own.

Source BHI Healthcare Quarterly 25

06Hazards & energy

Could fire or flood reach the Penrith council area, and how many homes run on solar?

16% of addresses in the Penrith council area fall on mapped bush fire prone land. On flood maps: 6.7% in a 1% AEP or flood planning area and 21% in the probable maximum flood only. That's a lower bound: the other 72% have no flood map to check.

Addresses on bush fire prone land

By RFS category · 71% of its land is mapped bush fire prone

A planning designation, not a risk rating: building on mapped land needs a bush fire assessment.

Source NSW RFS bush fire prone land 5

Flood maps

Share of addresses, each at its most serious rung

1% AEP or flood planning area6.7%
Probable maximum flood only21%
Hawkesbury-Nepean River Flood Study 2024, a modelled flood map of the river alone, so it says nothing of creeks or overland flow, not a planning control: 6,574 in its 1% AEP or flood planning area; 21,430 in its PMF only.
Precinct SEPP or site LEP flood map, a planning control, not a flood forecast: 242 in its 1% AEP or flood planning area.
Hawkesbury Floodplain Risk Management Study and Plan 2025, a modelled flood map of the river alone, so it says nothing of creeks or overland flow, not a planning control: 28 in its 1% AEP or flood planning area.
So these shares are a lower bound: the other 72% have no flood map to check. That's a gap in our data, not a sign it doesn't flood.

Source NSW flood studies 26 · NSW EPI flood planning maps 6 · NSW Flood Data Portal 27

Rooftop solar (estimate)

Solar systems per 100 houses
50.5
Home batteries per 1,000 dwellings
77.4
The Clean Energy Regulator counts systems by postcode only, so each postcode's systems are shared out by its homes: an estimate, 69% of it from postcodes wholly inside the council. On that basis it is lower than 77% of NSW councils.

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

27.0% of the land surveyed in the Penrith council area is under tree canopy (2024/25), below Greater Sydney's 34.5% (higher is better). Up 0.8 points from 26.2% 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

Penrith, 2022/2326.2%
Penrith, 2024/2527.0%
Greater Sydney, 2024/2534.5%

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

07Schools & planning

Where are the schools in the Penrith council area, and how is the land zoned?

The Penrith council area has 56 government schools, and its middle home is 0.7 km in a straight line from its local primary school. Most of its homes are zoned R2 Low Density Residential.

Government schools

Schools in the council
56
To the local primary school
0.7km
To the local high school
1.6km
Zoned for a primary school with ICSEA 1,100+
0%of homes
Distances are straight lines from the middle home to the school its catchment names. Catchments change, and some schools zone different year groups differently: confirm with the school or the department's School Finder before relying on one. School Finder. Government schools only: Catholic and independent schools have no catchments in this data. ICSEA describes the families a school serves (parents' occupations and education, remoteness, Indigenous enrolment; the national average is 1,000). It is not a measure of teaching or results.

Source NSW Department of Education 12

How its land is zoned

Share of the council's land area · Main zone by homes: R2 Low Density Residential

Source NSW EPI zoning and heritage maps 13

Heritage

Homes on a heritage item or in a heritage conservation area: 1.8% in all · 6.3% of its land

Work on a listed item or in a conservation area usually needs council heritage approval.

Source NSW EPI zoning and heritage maps 13

08Getting around

How easy is it to reach public transport in the Penrith council area?

At 8–9am on a weekday, 23% of residents in the Penrith council area live where public transport access is good: TfNSW level 4 (medium–high) or better, below NSW's 33% (higher is better). Their average level is 2.5 of 6 (medium), about the same as 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

Penrith 2.5NSW 2.6

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

PenrithNSW

Average level by December: 2022 2.5 · 2023 2.3 · 2024 2.5 · 2025 2.5

Source TfNSW PTAL 16

Vehicles

The Penrith council area had 720 registered vehicles for every 1,000 residents in December 2025 (NSW 737). 1.1% of its cars, four-wheel drives and light goods vehicles were battery electric (NSW 1.8%), and battery electric light vehicles grew 4.56× between December 2023 and October 2026.

Vehicles per 1,000 residents, 2025
720NSW 737
Motorcycles per 1,000, 2025
29.7NSW 32
Trucks and buses per 1,000, 2025
34.8NSW 32.5
Hybrid share of the light fleet, 2025
4.5%NSW 5.0%
Ute share of the light fleet, 2025
15.7%NSW 16.4%
Average age of passenger vehicles, 2025
10.6years · NSW 10.6

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

PenrithNSW

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.

Battery electric2,924
Plug-in hybrid843
Hybrid8,972
Petrol104,344
Diesel35,221
Other fuels866

Source TfNSW vehicle registrations, CC BY 17

Every vehicle by type

October 2026.

Cars113,943
Four-wheel drives11,991
Utes and vans28,039
Trucks and buses8,181
Motorcycles6,985
Trailers and caravans24,144

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.

Toyota31,029
Mazda15,151
Hyundai13,419
Ford11,043
Holden9,716

Source TfNSW vehicle registrations, CC BY 17

Registered for business use

Share of vehicles, 2025
16.1%NSW 15.4%
A vehicle counts at its registered customer's address, so a company's fleet counts where its office is: council areas with head offices read high, and this isn't only the residents' own vehicles.

Source TfNSW vehicle registrations, CC BY 17

09Business

Who's in business in the Penrith council area?

16,786 businesses registered for GST had an address in the Penrith council area at 30 June 2025, 73 for every 1,000 residents (NSW 107). 8.4% turn over $2 million or more a year, against 8.8% across NSW. Compared with NSW, more of them are in transport, postal and warehousing and other services (repairs, personal care).

Businesses, June 2025
16,786registered for GST
Per 1,000 residents
73NSW 107
Turning over $2m+
8.4%NSW 8.8%

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

By employees

Source ABS Data by Region 8

Industry mix

Share of businesses in each industry, June 2025 · most over-represented against NSW first

Electricity, gas, water0.5%
Transport and warehousing13%
Other services6.7%
Manufacturing4.5%
Construction24%
Public administration0.4%
Admin and support4.9%
Retail trade5.5%
Wholesale trade3.1%
Arts and recreation1.4%
Rental and real estate10%
Health care and social help6.9%
Education and training1.4%
Accommodation and food3.4%
Professional services9.3%
Media and telecoms0.7%
Mining0.1%
Finance and insurance3%
Agriculture, forestry, fishing1.4%
PenrithNSW share

Source ABS Data by Region 8

Going out

The Penrith council area had 198 licensed venues on October 2026's list, 0.9 for every 1,000 residents (NSW 1.7): 21 hotels, 15 clubs, 4 small bars, 111 restaurants and other on-premises venues and 47 bottle shops. 27 are licensed past midnight. That's up from 187 in 2021.

Venues per 1,000 residents

October lists, 2021–2026

PenrithNSW

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.

OpenedClosed

Source Liquor & Gaming NSW premises list 23

Poker machines

The Penrith council area had 2,508 poker machines at 35 clubs and hotels in 2025, 10.8 for every 1,000 residents (NSW 10.2). The machines made $259.8M in net profit, $1,121 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.

2025ClubsHotelsBothNSW
Venues1520352,125
Machines2,0035052,50888,019
Machines per 1,000 residents8.62.210.810.2
Net profit$152.6M$107.3M$259.8M$9.35bn
Net profit per resident$658$463$1,121$1,088

Source Liquor & Gaming NSW gaming machine reports 21

Net profit per resident

2017–2026 · 2026 is to June (clubs to May)

ClubsHotelsNSW that year

Source Liquor & Gaming NSW gaming machine reports 21

Machines per 1,000 residents

2017–2026 · 2026 is to June (clubs to May)

PenrithNSW

Source Liquor & Gaming NSW gaming machine reports 21

§Sources

Where every number comes from

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
  13. 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.
  14. 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.
  15. 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.
  16. 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.
  17. 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.
  18. 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.
  19. 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.
  20. 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.
  21. 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.
  22. 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.
  23. 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.
  24. 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.
  25. 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.
  26. NSW flood studies (Hawkesbury-Nepean 2024; Ku-ring-gai; Parramatta). NSW Reconstruction Authority, Hawkesbury-Nepean River Flood Study 2024, CC BY 4.0; Ku-ring-gai Council flood studies (Hydrology), CC BY 4.0; City of Parramatta flood mapping, used under the council's terms (non-commercial use). Matched to G-NAF addresses. Each study says only what it modelled.
  27. NSW Flood Data Portal council flood studies. Flood studies from the NSW Flood Data Portal (NSW SES), CC BY 4.0: Georges River Council, Kogarah Bay Creek Flood and Overland Flow Study; Camden Council, Update of Narellan Creek Flood Study; Hawkesbury City Council, Hawkesbury Floodplain Risk Management Study and Plan 2025; Fairfield City Council, Canley Corridor Floodplain Risk Management Study; Campbelltown City Council, Campbelltown Southern Catchments Flood Study; Blue Mountains City Council, Bullaburra to Linden Floodplain Risk Management Study and Plan; Northern Beaches Council, Greendale Creek Flood Study. Matched to G-NAF addresses. Each study says only what it modelled.
  28. 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.
  29. © 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).
  30. 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.

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