NSW/Postcodes/2156·POA 2156

Postcode 2156

The Hills Shire Council3 suburbs13,403 residents (2021)

Glenhaven·Kenthurst·Annangrove

The short version

Postcode 2156 covers Glenhaven, Kenthurst and Annangrove, home to 13,403 people at the 2021 Census1. New leases went for a median $950 a week, up 25% since 20222, higher than 90% of NSW postcodes. A year of that rent is 73% of the local median taxable income of $67,7103.

Across its suburbs, homes sold for medians from $2.7M in Glenhaven to $3.78M in Annangrove in 20254. 79% of its addresses are on mapped bush fire prone land5. On flood maps: 2.4% in a 1% AEP or flood planning area, 0.1% on flood prone and major creeks land and 5.2% in the probable maximum flood only256. That's a lower bound: the other 88% have no flood map to check. There are 59.8 rooftop solar systems for every 100 houses7, higher than 66% of NSW postcodes.

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Median weekly rent
$950
+25% since 2022 · 82 new bonds in 12 months

NSW Fair Trading rental bonds 2

Median taxable income, 2023–24
$68k
higher than 81% of NSW postcodes

ATO Taxation Statistics 2023–24 3

Homes on bush fire prone land
79%
of addresses · 7.7% in a flood map (a lower bound)

NSW RFS bush fire prone land 5

Rooftop solar
59.8
systems per 100 houses · higher than 66% of NSW postcodes

Clean Energy Regulator 7

01Renting

What does it cost to rent in postcode 2156?

New leases in postcode 2156 went for a median $950 a week over the last 12 months, higher than 90% of NSW postcodes with enough bonds to count. Mix-adjusted, rents are up 10.9% on a year earlier.

New bonds, last 12 months

Median weekly rent
$950new bonds
2-bed unit
–/ week
3-bed house
$900/ week
Rent growth since 2022
+25%mix-adjusted
Rent vs local income
73%of median income
Bonds lodged
82last 12 months

Source NSW Fair Trading rental bonds 2 · ATO Taxation Statistics 2023–24 3

Where its rent sits in NSW

Every postcode's median weekly rent on new bonds

Source NSW Fair Trading rental bonds 2

Who rents

Households renting
8.2%Census 2021
On Rent Assistance
54.3per 100 renting households
Rent growth, last year
+10.9%mix-adjusted

Source ABS Census 2021 1 · DSS payment recipients 9 · NSW Fair Trading rental bonds 2

Renting here

Fair Trading held 339 rental bonds for homes in postcode 2156 at December 2025, 0.6% more than in December 2021. Of the 104 it refunded in 2025, 61.5% went back to the tenant in full (NSW 61.6%), and the median bond had been held 683 days. Of the bond money, 73.9% went to tenants and the rest was paid to the landlord or agent.

Rent by kind of home, last 12 months

Median weekly rent on new bonds, and the middle half of rents where there are enough

All new bonds
$792–$1,400$950
Houses
$875–$1,412$1,025
2 bedrooms
$595
3 bedrooms
$900
4 bedrooms
$1,100

A median needs at least 10 new bonds.

Source NSW Fair Trading rental bonds 2

Bonds refunded, 12 months to September 2026

Bonds refunded
82
Refunded in full
65.9%to the tenant
Nothing to the tenant
13.4%all to the landlord or agent
Bond dollars to tenants
83.1%
Median time held
681days

A bond not refunded in full had some or all of it paid to the landlord or agent, which may have been agreed: the data gives no reason.

Source NSW Fair Trading rental bond refunds 27

Bonds refunded in full

Share of the bonds refunded each year with all of it going to the tenant · hollow point = 2026 to September

Postcode 2156NSW

Source NSW Fair Trading rental bond refunds 27

Median time a bond was held

Days, over the bonds refunded each year · hollow point = 2026 to September

Postcode 2156NSW

A bond's life, counted over bonds that have been refunded, so it isn't how long tenancies last.

Source NSW Fair Trading rental bond refunds 27

Bonds held

Each December, 2021–2025 · the dashed line is NSW's count scaled to this postcode's usual share

Source NSW Fair Trading rental bonds held 28 · NSW Fair Trading rental bonds 2

New bonds per 100 held

New bonds lodged in the year for every 100 held at its end: how often rented homes change hands. It's churn, not vacancy.

Postcode 2156NSW

Source NSW Fair Trading rental bonds held 28 · NSW Fair Trading rental bonds 2

02Suburbs & prices

Which suburbs share 2156, and what do homes sell for?

Postcode 2156 takes in 3 suburbs. Homes sold for medians from $2.7M in Glenhaven to $3.78M in Annangrove in 2025.

Median sale price by year

Houses and units together, in its 3 suburbs with the most sales · hollow point = 2026 to 2 Nov

GlenhavenKenthurstAnnangroveTypical NSW suburb (median of suburb medians)

Source NSW Valuer General sales 4

Every suburb in 2156

Most residents first · each links to its own page

SuburbResidentsMedian, 2025Sales10 yearsCrime per 1,000, 2025Advantage
Glenhaven6,619$2.7M89+85%9.296th
Kenthurst5,313$3.21M50+83%24.094th
Annangrove1,472$3.78M16–15.389th

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 4 · BOCSAR recorded crime 10 · ABS SEIFA 2021 11 · ABS Census 2021 1

Strata schemes

31 strata schemes are registered in postcode 2156, with 111 lots between them, and 2.6% of its addresses are in one (NSW 25%). They were registered 28.8 years ago on average (NSW 29.1), which dates the scheme, not always its building.

Strata schemes
31
Strata lots
111
Addresses in a scheme
2.6%NSW: 25%
Average scheme age
28.8years 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 30

When its schemes were registered

Share of its schemes under each strata Act · NSW: 9.0%, 40%, 36% and 15%

1961 Act · to 19740%
1973 Act · 1974–9774%
1996 Act · 1997–201619%
2015 Acts · since 20166.5%

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 30

Building approvals

54 dwellings were approved in postcode 2156 in 2025–26, 4 for every 1,000 residents (NSW 6.1). In 2026–27 to August, 4 dwellings so far.

Dwellings approved

Each financial year to June · 2026–27 to August, faint · dashed: NSW at this area's usual share

Source ABS Building Approvals 29

Dwellings approved, 2025–26
54
Per 1,000 residents
4NSW: 6.1

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. The ABS counts approvals by SA2; this area's figures share its SA2s' out by their residents, so they are estimates.

Source ABS Building Approvals 29

First home buyers and transfer duty

In 2025–26, no first home buyer in postcode 2156 had a transfer duty exemption or concession, as in the year before. Transfer duty on residential property here came to $29.6M, 0.3% of NSW's $10.6bn. Revenue NSW records no First Home Owner Grant paid here in any year from 2021–22.

First home buyer duty exemptions

Transfer duty exemptions and concessions each financial year, by the postcode on the transfer

Exemptions and concessionsNSW at its usual share (under 0.1%)

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 18

First Home Owner Grants paid

Payments each financial year

None recorded in any year from 2021–22.

Transfer duty paid on residential land

Duty paid each financial year

Duty paidNSW at its usual share (0.3%)

NSW, 2025–26: $10.6bn

Against NSW2020–212025–26Change
Duty here$20.8M$29.6M+43%
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 18

03People

Who lives in postcode 2156?

The middle taxpayer with a postcode 2156 address had a taxable income of $67,710 in 2023–24, higher than 81% of NSW postcodes. 13.4% of taxpayers here reported a net rental loss.

Where its income sits in NSW

Every postcode's median taxable income, 2023–24

Source ATO Taxation Statistics 2023–24 3

Postcode 2156 profile

Residents (2021)
13,403
Median age
46
Households renting
8.2%
Flats and apartments
1.6%
People per km²
213
Median taxable income
$67,710
Taxpayers with a rental loss
13.4%

Source ABS Census 2021 1 · ATO Taxation Statistics 2023–24 3

Population

An estimated 13,579 people lived in postcode 2156 at 30 June 2025, much the same as a year earlier, against +1.2% across NSW. That's 435 more people than in 2015 (+3.3%).

Residents, June 2025
13,579estimated
Growth, year to June 2025
0%NSW +1.2%
Since June 2015
+3.3%+435 people

The ABS publishes these estimates for SA2 areas and councils. This place's figures share out its SA2s' estimates by their 2021 Census residents, so growth inside an SA2 is spread evenly across it.

Source ABS Regional Population 12

Residents at 30 June

ABS estimated resident population, 2001–2025

Source ABS Regional Population 12

Growth each year

Change over the year to 30 June, against NSW

Postcode 2156 grewshrankNSW that year

Source ABS Regional Population 12

Income

The ABS's yearly figure counts income from every source before deductions, a year behind the ATO's taxable income above, and is estimated from the SA2s the postcode overlaps. Residents of postcode 2156 who lodged a tax return had a median income of $63,810 in 2022–23, against $58,909 across NSW. That's 19.1% more than in 2018–19 (NSW +19%). For 69.1%, most income came from wages and salaries.

Median income, 2022–23
$63,810NSW $58,909
Since 2018–19
+19.1%NSW +19%
Rank in NSW
…percentile of postcodes

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. The ABS publishes income for SA2 areas and councils. This place's figures are the average of its SA2s' figures, weighted by the residents it shares with each (2021 Census), so they describe the wider area as much as this place.

Source ABS Data by Region 13

Median income each year

All sources, before tax · financial years 2018–19 to 2022–23, by the year they end

Postcode 2156NSW

Source ABS Data by Region 13

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
$68,901
Own businessNSW $12,714
$15,199
InvestmentsNSW $240
$1,326
Super and annuitiesNSW $26,108
$29,558

Source ABS Data by Region 13

04Elections

How did postcode 2156 vote?

Federal elections

At the 2025 federal election, the two-party-preferred vote in postcode 2156 split an estimated 33.2% Labor to 66.8% Coalition, against 55.3% to 44.7% across NSW. That's a swing of 3.3 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 50% 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
33.2%NSW 55.3%
Swing to Labor since 2022
+3.3 ptsNSW +3.9 pts
Informal votes
7.1%NSW 8.1%
Built from
50%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 14

Labor's two-party-preferred share

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

Postcode 2156NSW50%, level

Votes each estimate is built from: 2007 81% · 2010 81% · 2013 73% · 2016 71% · 2019 100% · 2022 100% · 2025 50%

Source AEC Tally Room federal election results (31496) · AEC, CC BY 4.0 14

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

Berowra

Elected: Julian LEESER (Liberal)

Final count, two candidates

Julian LEESERLiberal51.6%
Benson KOSCHINSKILabor48.4%
First preferences, 8 candidates
Julian LEESERLiberal41.7%
Benson KOSCHINSKILabor27.0%
Martin COUSINSThe Greens11.9%
Tina BROWNIndependent11.4%
Gerald MATTINSONPauline Hanson's One Nation4.1%
Stephen BASTIANTrumpet of Patriots1.9%
Roger WOODWARDIndependent1.1%
Brendan Michael CLARKEFUSION | Planet Rescue | Whistleblower Protection | Innovation0.9%

130,869 enrolled · 115,568 formal votes · 6.4% informal

Results on the AEC site
Mitchell

Elected: Alex HAWKE (Liberal)

Final count, two candidates

Alex HAWKELiberal53.8%
Dilvan BIRCANLabor46.2%
First preferences, 5 candidates
Alex HAWKELiberal46.3%
Dilvan BIRCANLabor33.2%
Ben SPEECHLYThe Greens13.7%
Brendan McCREANORPauline Hanson's One Nation4.3%
Mark CROCKERTrumpet of Patriots2.4%

122,997 enrolled · 109,553 formal votes · 5.3% informal

Results on the AEC site

Source AEC Tally Room federal election results (31496) · AEC, CC BY 4.0 14

State elections

At the 2023 state election, the two-party-preferred vote in postcode 2156 split an estimated 29.7% Labor to 70.3% Coalition, against 54.9% to 45.1% across NSW. That's a swing of 10.3 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 58% 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
29.7%NSW 54.9%
Swing to Labor since 2019
+10.3 ptsNSW +5.7 pts
Informal votes
2.9%NSW 3.3%
Built from
58%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 15

Labor's two-party-preferred share

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

Postcode 2156NSW50%, level

Votes each estimate is built from: 2015 70% · 2019 67% · 2023 58%

Source NSW Electoral Commission past election results (SG2301) · NSWEC, CC BY 4.0 15

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

Castle Hill

Elected: Mark HODGES (The Liberal Party of Australia, New South Wales Division)

Final count, two candidates

Mark HODGESThe Liberal Party of Australia, New South Wales Division60.9%
Tina CARTWRIGHTAustralian Labor Party (NSW Branch)39.1%
First preferences, 6 candidates
Mark HODGESThe Liberal Party of Australia, New South Wales Division50.7%
Tina CARTWRIGHTAustralian Labor Party (NSW Branch)28.4%
Tina KORDROSTAMIThe Greens NSW9.0%
My TRINHLiberal Democratic Party6.8%
Eric CLAUSSustainable Australia Party - Stop Overdevelopment / Corruption2.6%
Nathan ORGANIndependent2.5%

60,394 enrolled · 53,427 formal votes · 2.4% informal

Results on the NSW Electoral Commission site
Hornsby

Elected: Matt KEAN (The Liberal Party of Australia, New South Wales Division)

Final count, two candidates

Matt KEANThe Liberal Party of Australia, New South Wales Division58.0%
Melissa HOILEAustralian Labor Party (NSW Branch)42.0%
First preferences, 8 candidates
Matt KEANThe Liberal Party of Australia, New South Wales Division43.3%
Melissa HOILEAustralian Labor Party (NSW Branch)24.8%
Tania SALITRAThe Greens NSW14.3%
Steve BUSCHPauline Hanson's One Nation7.9%
Jeffrey GRIMSHAWLiberal Democratic Party3.9%
Benjamin CASWELLIndependent2.9%
Justin THOMASSustainable Australia Party - Stop Overdevelopment / Corruption1.7%
Adrian DIGNAMIndependent1.2%

60,291 enrolled · 54,166 formal votes · 2.4% informal

Results on the NSW Electoral Commission site
Hawkesbury

Elected: Robyn PRESTON (The Liberal Party of Australia, New South Wales Division)

Final count, two candidates

Robyn PRESTONThe Liberal Party of Australia, New South Wales Division59.8%
Amanda KOTLASHAustralian Labor Party (NSW Branch)40.2%
First preferences, 8 candidates
Robyn PRESTONThe Liberal Party of Australia, New South Wales Division43.8%
Amanda KOTLASHAustralian Labor Party (NSW Branch)25.4%
Susane POPOVSKIPauline Hanson's One Nation10.3%
Danielle WHEELERThe Greens NSW7.5%
Angela MAGUIREIndependent4.3%
Eddie DOGRAMACIThe Small Business Party3.8%
Tony PETTITTIndependent2.8%
Elissa CARREYSustainable Australia Party - Stop Overdevelopment / Corruption2.1%

61,167 enrolled · 53,179 formal votes · 4.3% informal

Results on the NSW Electoral Commission site

Source NSW Electoral Commission past election results (SG2301) · NSWEC, CC BY 4.0 15

05Hazards & energy

Could fire or flood reach postcode 2156?

79% of addresses in postcode 2156 fall on mapped bush fire prone land. On flood maps: 2.4% in a 1% AEP or flood planning area, 0.1% on flood prone and major creeks land and 5.2% in the probable maximum flood only. That's a lower bound: the other 88% have no flood map to check.

Addresses on bush fire prone land

91% 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 area2.4%
Flood prone and major creeks land0.1%
Probable maximum flood only5.2%
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: 120 in its 1% AEP or flood planning area; 263 in its PMF only.
Precinct SEPP or site LEP flood map, a planning control, not a flood forecast: 4 on its flood prone and major creeks land.
Council LEP flood planning map, a planning control, not a flood forecast: 245 not in the council's LEP flood planning map.
4.8% of addresses are clear of what these maps looked at, and of nothing more. So these shares are a lower bound: the other 88% have no flood map to check. That's a gap in our data, not a sign it doesn't flood.

Source NSW flood studies 25 · NSW EPI flood planning maps 6

Rooftop solar

Solar systems per 100 houses
59.8
Home batteries per 1,000 dwellings
124.3

Source Clean Energy Regulator 7

Where its solar uptake sits in NSW

Every postcode's solar systems per 100 houses

Source Clean Energy Regulator 7

Tree canopy

55.1% of the land surveyed in postcode 2156 is under tree canopy (2024/25), above Greater Sydney's 34.5% (higher is better). Down 5.2 points from 60.3% in 2022/23. That meets Greater Sydney's 40% target.

Land under tree canopy

Share of the land surveyed under trees taller than 3 m · the dashed line is Greater Sydney's 40% target

Postcode 2156, 2022/2360.3%
Postcode 2156, 2024/2555.1%
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 8

Ambulance

In 2025–26, ambulances were sent 124.7 times for every 1,000 residents of the area around postcode 2156 (NSW 182.2). In April to June 2026, half of its emergency calls were reached within 21.1 minutes and nine in ten within 41.6 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

Postcode 2156'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 24

Median response, April to June 2026
21.1minutes · NSW 14
Nine in ten reached within
41.6minutes · NSW 33
Ambulances sent per 1,000, 2025–26
124.7NSW 182.2
Incidents per 1,000, 2025–26
87.7NSW 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 24

06Getting around

Where do crashes happen in postcode 2156, and how easy is public transport?

Road crashes

Police recorded 154 crashes in which someone was killed or injured in postcode 2156 over 2016–2025, about 15 a year; 62 of them were fatal or caused a serious injury. That's 1.1 a year per 1,000 residents, 33% below the NSW rate (1.7; lower is better).

Crashes in which someone was hurt

Killed or injured, by reporting year · 154 over 2016–2025, and 78 more where a vehicle was towed away and no one was hurt

Someone killed or seriously injuredOther injury

Source TfNSW NSW Crash Data 16

How severe, and who was involved

2016–2025 together

Casualty crashes a year per 1,000 residents
1.133% below NSW (1.7) · lower is better
Fatal or serious-injury crashes
62
People killed
3
Involving a pedestrian
1crashes
Involving a cyclist
6crashes
Involving a motorcycle
13crashes

Source TfNSW NSW Crash Data 16

Streets with the most casualty crashes

Within postcode 2156, 2016–2025

Annangrove Road43 casualty crashes · 22 fatal or serious43
Glenhaven Road38 casualty crashes · 17 fatal or serious38
Old Northern Road31 casualty crashes · 7 fatal or serious31
Kenthurst Road11 casualty crashes · 4 fatal or serious11
Pitt Town Road9 casualty crashes · 5 fatal or serious9
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 16

Public transport

At 8–9am on a weekday, 4% of residents in postcode 2156 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 1.2 of 6 (low), below 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

Postcode 2156 1.2NSW 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 17

Residents with good access

Share living at level 4 (medium–high) or better, 8–9am, each December

Postcode 2156NSW

Average level by December: 2022 1.2 · 2023 1.1 · 2024 1.2 · 2025 1.2

Source TfNSW PTAL 17

07Business

Who's in business in postcode 2156?

An estimated 1,959 businesses registered for GST had an address in postcode 2156 at 30 June 2025, 144 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 rental, hiring and real estate and construction.

Businesses, June 2025
1,959estimated
Per 1,000 residents
144NSW 107
Turning over $2m+
8.4%NSW 8.8%

The ABS publishes these counts for SA2 areas and councils. This place's figures share out its SA2s' counts by their 2021 Census residents, so they are estimates, and a business is counted where its registered address is.

Source ABS Data by Region 13

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 13

Turnover and size

Share of businesses by yearly turnover and by employees, June 2025

By employees

Source ABS Data by Region 13

Industry mix

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

Rental and real estate17%
Construction23%
Wholesale trade4.3%
Public administration0.4%
Professional services15%
Other services4.6%
Finance and insurance5.6%
Education and training1.5%
Retail trade5%
Accommodation and food3.6%
Arts and recreation1.2%
Admin and support3.7%
Health care and social help6%
Manufacturing2.4%
Electricity, gas, water0.2%
Mining0.1%
Media and telecoms0.6%
Agriculture, forestry, fishing3.1%
Transport and warehousing2.7%
Postcode 2156NSW share

Source ABS Data by Region 13

Going out

Postcode 2156 had 11 licensed venues on October 2026's list: 8 restaurants and other on-premises venues and 3 bottle shops. That's up from 10 in 2021.

Licensed venues each year

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 21

Poker machines

Liquor & Gaming NSW's reports list no poker machines in postcode 2156 in 2025.

Active ABNs · supporting lens

Postcode 2156 has 6,176 active ABNs, and 513 new ones began in 2025.

New registrations by year

ABNs still active, by start year · 2026 to 14 Oct

Source ABN Bulk Extract 22 · survivor-biased

Who holds the ABNs

Sole traders 28%Companies 36%Trusts 15%SMSFs 16%Strata 0%

Industries by company name

Property175
Construction137
Professional105
Trades88
Tech & digital37
Retail37
Health35

Source ABN Bulk Extract 22 · keyword match on company and trust names

§Sources

Where every number comes from

  1. ABS Census of Population and Housing 2021. Residents, age, renting and dwelling type. CC BY 4.0.
  2. NSW Fair Trading rental bond lodgements. New bonds lodged Oct 2025 – Sep 2026, by postcode.
  3. ATO Taxation Statistics 2023–24, Individuals Table 6 (postcode). Median taxable income and net rental losses of people who lodged with a postcode here.
  4. NSW Valuer General, Property Sales Information (market sales). Market sales, 2001 to 2 November 2026, one price per dealing, each placed in its suburb through its lot and plan or address in G-NAF, else its locality and postcode. Bulk, part and nominal sales excluded; medians need at least 5 sales. 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. Land per m² and block sizes use the lot area VG records.
  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. Clean Energy Regulator, small-scale installations by postcode. Solar systems per 100 separate houses (Census 2021, growth-adjusted).
  8. 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.
  9. Department of Social Services, Benefit and Payment Recipient Demographics, June 2026 quarter (postcode). Commonwealth Rent Assistance recipients per 100 renting households (Census 2021). Counts are rounded or perturbed to multiples of 5, and Rent Assistance counts income units, which can exceed households. CC BY 3.0 AU.
  10. NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research, recorded criminal incidents by suburb. 2001–2025. Rates per 1,000 residents use the ABS estimated resident population of the same year, estimated for suburbs from SA2s; shown only where at least 200 people live.
  11. ABS Socio-Economic Indexes for Areas (SEIFA) 2021, by suburb (SAL). Percentile = rank among NSW suburbs with at least 100 residents. CC BY 4.0.
  12. Australian Bureau of Statistics, Regional Population: estimated resident population by SA2 and council, 30 June 2001–2025 (ABS Data API). The ABS's estimate of the people who usually live in each area at 30 June, updated every year from the Census, births, deaths and migration (June 2025 figures, released March 2026). The ABS publishes SA2s and councils; a suburb's or postcode's figure shares its SA2s' estimates out by their 2021 Census residents, so growth inside an SA2 is spread evenly across it; a place's growth is worked out from those figures. Growth is left out where fewer than 100 people lived the year before. CC BY 4.0.
  13. 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 SA2 and council (ABS Data API). Income counts the residents who lodged a tax return, by where they live; government pensions and allowances are left out, and medians and shares where fewer than 100 people earned that income. Businesses are those registered for GST, counted by the address they give, with the share turning over $2 million or more shown where there are at least 50. The ABS publishes SA2s and councils; a suburb's or postcode's income is the average of its SA2s', weighted by the residents it shares with each (2021 Census), and its business counts share its SA2s' out the same way, so both are estimates. CC BY 4.0.
  14. 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.
  15. 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.
  16. 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.
  17. 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.
  18. 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.
  19. 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.
  20. 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.
  21. 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.
  22. Australian Business Register, ABN Bulk Extract, 14 Oct 2026. Active ABNs by postcode. CC BY 3.0 AU.
  23. ABS Australian Statistical Geography Standard 2021: suburbs and localities, postal areas, LGAs. Boundaries. CC BY 4.0.
  24. 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.
  25. 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.
  26. NSW Fair Trading rental bond refunds, by postcode. Every bond refunded, by the rented home's postcode, from 2021: the dollars to the tenant and to the landlord or agent, and the days Fair Trading held it. Years are calendar years, the latest a part year until December; the 12-month figures run to the latest file. Shares and medians need at least 30 refunds. The files give no reason for a payment to the landlord or agent, which may have been agreed. Days held is a bond's life over finished bonds only, not how long tenancies last. CC BY 4.0.
  27. NSW Fair Trading rental bonds held, by postcode, each December. The bonds Fair Trading held at the end of each year, by the rented home's postcode, and new bonds lodged in the year for every 100 held: how often rented homes change hands, not vacancy. Social housing takes no bond, so it isn't counted. Rates and changes need at least 30 bonds held. CC BY 4.0.
  28. Australian Bureau of Statistics, Building Approvals, Australia, CC BY 4.0: dwelling units approved by SA2 (ABS Data API). Dwelling units approved each month from July 2021, by councils and private certifiers: new houses, townhouses and apartments, and the dwellings alterations create, added up by financial year to June; the latest year runs to the latest month the ABS has published for small areas. 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, left out under 200 residents. The ABS publishes SA2s and councils; a suburb's or postcode's figure shares its SA2s' approvals out by their 2021 Census residents, so it is an estimate. 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).

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