What does it cost to rent in postcode 2870?
New leases in postcode 2870 went for a median $420 a week over the last 12 months, lower than 87% of NSW postcodes with enough bonds to count. Mix-adjusted, rents are up 2.3% on a year earlier.
New bonds, last 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
Renting here
Fair Trading held 1,290 rental bonds for homes in postcode 2870 at December 2025, 14.4% more than in December 2021. Of the 397 it refunded in 2025, 64.7% went back to the tenant in full (NSW 61.6%), and the median bond had been held 545 days. Of the bond money, 78.8% 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
- $360–$480$420
- Houses
- $394–$500$450
- Units and flats
- $270–$359$325
- 1 bedroom
- $240
- 2 bedrooms
- $330
- 3 bedrooms
- $428
- 4 bedrooms
- $500
A median needs at least 10 new bonds.
Source NSW Fair Trading rental bonds 2
Bonds refunded, 12 months to September 2026
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
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
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
Which suburbs share 2870, and what do homes sell for?
Postcode 2870 takes in 8 suburbs. Homes in Parkes sold for a median $460k in 2025.
Median sale price by year
Houses and units together, in its suburb with the most sales · hollow point = 2026 to 2 Nov
Source NSW Valuer General sales 4
Every suburb in 2870
Most residents first · each links to its own page
| Suburb | Residents | Median, 2025 | Sales | 10 years | Crime per 1,000, 2025 | Advantage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Parkes | 11,324 | $460k | 283 | +95% | 148.3 | 15th |
| Alectown | 151 | – | 2 | – | – | 65th |
| Cookamidgera | 151 | – | 3 | – | – | 24th |
| Goonumbla | 98 | – | 0 | – | – | 65th |
| Tichborne | 92 | – | 2 | – | – | 63rd |
| Daroobalgie | 88 | – | 2 | – | – | 74th |
| Mandagery | 82 | – | 1 | – | – | 24th |
| Cooks Myalls | 49 | – | 0 | – | – | 63rd |
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
47 strata schemes are registered in postcode 2870, with 151 lots between them, and 2.3% of its addresses are in one (NSW 25%). They were registered 19.2 years ago on average (NSW 29.1), which dates the scheme, not always its building.
A scheme is counted where most of its addresses are. Lots include the garages, storerooms and shops a plan makes lots of, and a scheme that has been wound up leaves the register.
Source StrataHub strata plans 30
When its schemes were registered
Share of its schemes under each strata Act · NSW: 9.0%, 40%, 36% and 15%
These date each scheme's registration, not its building: an older block can be strata-titled long after it went up.
Source StrataHub strata plans 30
See the share of addresses in a strata scheme on the map
Building approvals
17 dwellings were approved in postcode 2870 in 2025–26, 1.4 for every 1,000 residents (NSW 6.1): 17 houses and 0 other dwellings, such as townhouses and apartments. In 2026–27 to August, under one 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
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
See dwellings approved per 1,000 residents on the map
First home buyers and transfer duty
In 2025–26, 76 first home buyers in postcode 2870 were let off transfer duty or paid less under a NSW first home buyer scheme, up from 66 the year before. That's 0.2% of the 32,137 across NSW. Revenue NSW paid one First Home Owner Grant here. Transfer duty on residential property here came to $4.67M, under 0.1% of NSW's $10.6bn.
First home buyer duty exemptions
Transfer duty exemptions and concessions each financial year, by the postcode on the transfer
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
NSW, 2025–26: 636
Transfer duty paid on residential land
Duty paid each financial year
NSW, 2025–26: $10.6bn
| Against NSW | 2020–21 | 2025–26 | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Duty here | $3.16M | $4.67M | +48% |
| NSW duty on residential land | $7.83bn | $10.7bn | +37% |
| NSW residential transfers | 215,274 | 200,697 | −7% |
NSW's lines are Revenue NSW's land-related duty statistics, which count residential transfers by the documents it receives; duty here comes from its postcode statistics, by the postcode on each lodged transfer. They're counted differently, so compare how each changed, not the amounts. Both run from 2020–21, the first year of the postcode figures.
Exemptions are counted when the transfer is lodged and grants when they're paid, so the two don't match. Duty is the amount paid, not a count of sales.
Source Revenue NSW statistics by postcode 18
See first home buyer exemptions for every postcode on the map
Who lives in postcode 2870?
The middle taxpayer with a postcode 2870 address had a taxable income of $57,204 in 2023–24, higher than 53% of NSW postcodes. 5.6% 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
Population
An estimated 12,068 people lived in postcode 2870 at 30 June 2025, down 0.2% on a year earlier, against +1.2% across NSW. That's 382 fewer people than in 2015 (−3.1%).
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
Growth each year
Change over the year to 30 June, against NSW
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 2870 who lodged a tax return had a median income of $55,287 in 2022–23, against $58,909 across NSW. That's 24.8% more than in 2018–19 (NSW +19%). For 81.5%, most income came from wages and salaries.
Residents who lodged a tax return, by where they live; government pensions and allowances aren't counted, and neither are people who didn't lodge. 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
Source ABS Data by Region 13
Where income comes from
The source most of each person's income came from, 2022–23
- Wages and salaries82%NSW 80%
- Own business7.1%NSW 6.7%
- Investments11%NSW 12%
- Super and annuities0.8%NSW 0.9%
Median income from each source
Among the people with any income from it
- Wages and salariesNSW $63,301
- $59,709
- Own businessNSW $12,714
- $6,854
- InvestmentsNSW $240
- $134
- Super and annuitiesNSW $26,108
- $17,906
Source ABS Data by Region 13
How did postcode 2870 vote?
Federal elections
At the 2025 federal election, the two-party-preferred vote in postcode 2870 split an estimated 36.3% Labor to 63.7% Coalition, against 55.3% to 44.7% across NSW. That's a swing of 3.6 points to Labor since 2022 (across NSW, 3.9 points to Labor). Like every figure here, it's estimated from the polling places where votes were cast, not where voters live: built from 44% of the formal votes cast in its electorates.
The 2025 federal election
Polling day 3 May 2025 · estimated from where votes were cast, not where voters live
First preferences
- Labor17%
- Coalition32%
- Greens7.4%
- Independents2.8%
- Other candidates41%
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
Votes each estimate is built from: 2007 79% · 2010 76% · 2013 63% · 2016 64% · 2019 100% · 2022 100% · 2025 44%
Source AEC Tally Room federal election results (31496) · AEC, CC BY 4.0 14
Its federal electorate, 2025
The division its residents vote in · the AEC's own count for the whole division, not an estimate
Elected: Jamie CHAFFEY (The Nationals)
Final count, two candidates
First preferences, 10 candidates
130,841 enrolled · 104,887 formal votes · 10.2% informal
Results on the AEC siteSource AEC Tally Room federal election results (31496) · AEC, CC BY 4.0 14
State elections
At the 2023 state election, Independents took the most first preferences in postcode 2870, an estimated 44.6%. There's no two-party-preferred estimate: most of the votes in its districts came from contests whose final two weren't Labor and the Coalition. Like every figure here, it's estimated from the polling places where votes were cast, not where voters live: built from 50% of the formal votes cast in its electorates.
The 2023 state election
Polling day 25 March 2023 · estimated from where votes were cast, not where voters live
First preferences
- Labor12%
- Coalition23%
- Greens2.6%
- Independents45%
- Other candidates18%
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
Its state electorate, 2023
The district its residents vote in · the NSW Electoral Commission's own count for the whole district, not an estimate
Elected: Philip DONATO (Independent)
Final count, two candidates
First preferences, 8 candidates
57,960 enrolled · 50,518 formal votes · 2.7% informal
Results on the NSW Electoral Commission siteSource NSW Electoral Commission past election results (SG2301) · NSWEC, CC BY 4.0 15
Could fire or flood reach postcode 2870?
3.0% of addresses in postcode 2870 fall on mapped bush fire prone land. No address its flood maps cover is in a flood class: clear only of what those maps looked at. That's a lower bound: the other 99% have no flood map to check.
Addresses on bush fire prone land
30% of its land is mapped bush fire prone
- Bush fire prone3%
- Not bush fire prone97%
Source NSW RFS bush fire prone land 5
See homes on bush fire prone land for every postcode on the map
Flood maps
Share of addresses, each at its most serious rung
Source NSW EPI flood planning maps 6
Rooftop solar
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
Ambulance
In 2025–26, ambulances were sent 261.3 times for every 1,000 residents of the area around postcode 2870 (NSW 182.2). In April to June 2026, half of its emergency calls were reached within 11 minutes and nine in ten within 34 minutes (NSW 14 and 33): lower is quicker.
Ambulances sent per 1,000 residents
The wider area around here, each financial year · the dotted line marks the response grid change
NSW Ambulance changed how it sends ambulances in February 2025, and NSW's responses fell 6.4% that quarter, so years either side of the line don't strictly compare.
Source BHI Healthcare Quarterly 24
Emergency (category 2) calls. Half are reached within the median, and nine in ten within the 90th percentile; lower is quicker.
Source BHI Healthcare Quarterly 24
Where do crashes happen in postcode 2870, and how easy is public transport?
Road crashes
Police recorded 273 crashes in which someone was killed or injured in postcode 2870 over 2016–2025, about 27 a year; 66 of them were fatal or caused a serious injury. That's 2.2 a year per 1,000 residents, 1.3 times the NSW rate (1.7; lower is better).
Crashes in which someone was hurt
Killed or injured, by reporting year · 273 over 2016–2025, and 117 more where a vehicle was towed away and no one was hurt
Source TfNSW NSW Crash Data 16
How severe, and who was involved
2016–2025 together
Source TfNSW NSW Crash Data 16
Streets with the most casualty crashes
Within postcode 2870, 2016–2025
Source TfNSW NSW Crash Data 16
See casualty crash rates for every postcode on the map
Public transport
TfNSW records no public transport within walking distance of homes in postcode 2870 between 8 and 9am on a weekday (December 2025). Across NSW, 33% of residents live where access is good.
Average access level, 8–9am
TfNSW's 0–6 level, averaged over residents · weekday timetable, December 2025
TfNSW scores every mesh block (a few dozen homes) for each hour of a weekday from the walk to nearby stops and how often services call there, from 1 (low) to 6 (very high); 0 means no service that hour. A place's figure is the average over the people who live there, not a level TfNSW publishes.
Source TfNSW PTAL 17
Residents with good access
Share living at level 4 (medium–high) or better, 8–9am, each December
Average level by December: 2022 0 · 2023 0.6 · 2024 0 · 2025 0
Source TfNSW PTAL 17
Who's in business in postcode 2870?
An estimated 995 businesses registered for GST had an address in postcode 2870 at 30 June 2025, 83 for every 1,000 residents (NSW 107). 9.4% turn over $2 million or more a year, against 8.8% across NSW. Compared with NSW, more of them are in agriculture, forestry and fishing and other services (repairs, personal care).
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
- Under $50k22%NSW 23%
- $50k to $200k30%NSW 32%
- $200k to $2m39%NSW 36%
- $2m or more9.1%NSW 8.8%
By employees
- No employees59%NSW 61%
- 1–4 employees29%NSW 28%
- 5–199.8%NSW 8.2%
- 20 or more3%NSW 2.5%
Source ABS Data by Region 13
Industry mix
Share of businesses in each industry, June 2025 · most over-represented against NSW first
Source ABS Data by Region 13
Going out
Postcode 2870 had 29 licensed venues on October 2026's list: 7 hotels, 5 clubs, 13 restaurants and other on-premises venues and 4 bottle shops. 7 are licensed past midnight. That's down from 34 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
See licensed venues on the map
Poker machines
Clubs and hotels in postcode 2870 had 188 poker machines at 8 venues in 2025. Bowerbird estimates they made about $11M in net profit in 2025: a model, as Liquor & Gaming NSW publishes net profit only by council.
These are authorised machines at the year's last report, counted where the venue is, not where the people who use them live. Liquor & Gaming NSW publishes net profit by council, not by postcode.
Source Liquor & Gaming NSW gaming machine reports 19
Machines each year
2017–2026 · 2026 is to June (clubs to May)
Source Liquor & Gaming NSW gaming machine reports 19
Machine profit each year (estimate)
2017–2026 · 2026 is to June (clubs to May)
Bowerbird's model of what each club's and hotel's machines kept after paying out prizes, before gaming tax, fitted to Liquor & Gaming NSW's venue rankings, machine counts and council totals and added up by where the venues are. Liquor & Gaming NSW publishes no such figure, so read it as a rough one: a venue that made a loss reads as a small profit, and where clubs' own accounts were reported, most read 5% to 12% below the model. Venues' takings include visitors, so this isn't what the area's own residents lost. Hotel years run January to December and club years December to November.
Source Bowerbird estimate, from Liquor & Gaming NSW 20
See poker machines for every postcode on the map
Active ABNs · supporting lens
Postcode 2870 has 2,745 active ABNs, and 268 new ones began in 2025.
Where every number comes from
- ABS Census of Population and Housing 2021. Residents, age, renting and dwelling type. CC BY 4.0.
- NSW Fair Trading rental bond lodgements. New bonds lodged Oct 2025 – Sep 2026, by postcode.
- ATO Taxation Statistics 2023–24, Individuals Table 6 (postcode). Median taxable income and net rental losses of people who lodged with a postcode here.
- 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.
- NSW RFS Bush Fire Prone Land, matched to G-NAF addresses. The full certified map (vegetation categories 1–3 and the buffer), every live address tested. © NSW Rural Fire Service 2026, CC BY. A planning designation, not a risk rating.
- NSW flood planning areas mapped by LEPs and precinct SEPPs (DPHI), matched to G-NAF addresses. Only councils whose LEP maps a flood planning area, plus Western Sydney precinct maps. Councils have kept their own flood maps since July 2021, so check with the council for the latest. CC BY 3.0 AU.
- Clean Energy Regulator, small-scale installations by postcode. Solar systems per 100 separate houses (Census 2021, growth-adjusted).
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Australian Electoral Commission, House of Representatives results by polling place, and votes by where electors live (SA1), federal elections 2007–2025 (AEC Tally Room). Votes are counted where they are cast, not where voters live, so a place's figures are estimates. For 2019 and 2022 they come from the AEC's count of votes by the SA1 electors live in, which places nearly every vote; for the other elections, each election-day vote is placed at the polling places nearest the homes in its division, shared by their residents (2021 Census), and pre-poll, postal and absent votes can't be placed. So each figure shows the share of its electorates' formal votes it is built from. Two-party-preferred is Labor against the Coalition. Electorates, members and candidates are the AEC's own results for each whole division. © Commonwealth of Australia (Australian Electoral Commission), CC BY 4.0.
- NSW Electoral Commission, Legislative Assembly results by polling place (state elections 2015–2023) and local government results by council, ward and mayoralty (2021 and 2024), from its past results site. State figures are estimates, as for federal: each election-day vote is placed at the polling places nearest the homes in its district, shared by their residents (2021 Census), and pre-poll, postal, iVote and absent votes can't be placed, so each figure shows the share of its districts' formal votes it is built from. Two-party-preferred is Labor against the Coalition, from NSWEC's two-candidate count where the final two were Labor and the Coalition; districts where they weren't have no two-party figure. Council results are NSWEC's own counts for each council, ward and mayoralty, not estimates; a council's polling places place it, never its name. Districts, members, councillors and candidates are NSWEC's own results. © State of New South Wales through the NSW Electoral Commission, CC BY 4.0.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Liquor & Gaming NSW, gaming machine reports, © State of New South Wales, CC BY 4.0. Net profit, machines and venues for clubs and hotels, by council and by venue, from December 2016. Machines are authorised machines at a year's last report, and can include machines in storage. Small councils are reported together with neighbours, and those groups change between reports: a council with a combined report has no net profit in dollars of its own, and its figure per resident is worked out over the residents of the councils in each report (ABS estimated resident population). Machines and venues are each council's own, summed from the venue reports. Hotel years run January to December and club years December to November.
- Bowerbird estimate, modelled from Liquor & Gaming NSW's gaming machine reports, © State of New South Wales, CC BY 4.0. Our estimate of each club's and hotel's net profit from its machines, before gaming tax, from 2017 (suburbs from 2021). Liquor & Gaming NSW publishes each venue's rank by net profit and its machines, and dollars only by council; the model fits the ranks to the council totals and adds the venues up by the postcode and council the rankings give and the suburb the premises list places them in. It isn't a published figure, and this release has a range for a venue (the map's venue card) but none for an area: on council rows held back, its median error is under 1%, and where clubs' own accounts were reported, most read 5% to 12% below it. A venue with a loss reads as a small profit. Takings include visitors. The latest year is a part year.
- Liquor & Gaming NSW, licensed premises list, each October from 2021, © State of New South Wales, CC BY 4.0. Licences with premises people go to, placed by the list's own coordinates. Limited licences, pop-ups, producers and delivery-only businesses aren't counted, nor are venues that have stopped trading for six weeks or more. Hours tiers are what a licence allows, not when a venue opens. The list's licensees aren't shown.
- Australian Business Register, ABN Bulk Extract, 14 Oct 2026. Active ABNs by postcode. CC BY 3.0 AU.
- ABS Australian Statistical Geography Standard 2021: suburbs and localities, postal areas, LGAs. Boundaries. CC BY 4.0.
- Bureau of Health Information. Healthcare Quarterly: Ambulance. Sydney (NSW); BHI. Free to use for non-commercial purposes with BHI acknowledged. NSW Ambulance responses and incidents by financial year, and emergency (category 2) response times for the latest quarter, as BHI reports them by ABS statistical area (SA3). A suburb, postcode or council takes the figures of the SA3 around it, so they are the wider area's, not its own. Rates per 1,000 residents use the SA3's ABS estimated resident population. NSW Ambulance changed its response grid in February 2025, so responses either side of it don't strictly compare.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- © 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).
Postal areas are ABS Postal Areas (POA 2021), which follow Australia Post postcodes closely but not exactly. A suburb belongs to the postal area its centre falls in; suburb figures are the suburb pages' own.