NSW/Wollongong/Fairy Meadow·SAL 11487

Fairy Meadow

Wollongong CouncilPostcode 25193.4 km²7,512 residents (2021)

The short version

Homes in Fairy Meadow sold for a median $891k in 2025, across 168 sales1, up 65% on ten years ago. That makes it pricier than 42% of NSW suburbs with enough sales to count. Police recorded 75 incidents per 1,000 residents in 20252, close to the NSW rate, and down 58% since 2001.

On the ABS index of advantage it sits in the 43rd percentile of NSW suburbs3, home to 7,512 people at the 2021 Census. New leases in postcode 2519 went for a median $710 a week, +24.5% since 20224.

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Median sale price, 2025
$891k
168 sales · pricier than 42% of NSW suburbs

NSW Valuer General sales 1

Ten-year price growth
+65%
+22.9% over five years

NSW Valuer General sales 1

Recorded crime, 2025
75
per 1,000 residents · about the NSW rate (66.1)

BOCSAR recorded crime 2

Socio-economic advantage
43rd
percentile among NSW suburbs (SEIFA IRSAD)

ABS SEIFA 2021 3

01Property

What do homes in Fairy Meadow sell for, and where is it heading?

The middle sale here was $891k in 2025, against $970k for the typical NSW suburb in 2025. Prices are up 65% on a decade ago.

Median sale price by year

Houses and units together · hollow point = 2026 to 2 Nov

Fairy MeadowTypical NSW suburb (median of suburb medians)

Source NSW Valuer General sales 1

Sales each year

One per dealing · 2026 to 2 Nov

Source NSW Valuer General sales 1

Where it sits in NSW

Every suburb's 12-month median, log scale

Source NSW Valuer General sales 1

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 1

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 · 1.1% in 2025 · 2026 so far, more to arrive

Source NSW Valuer General sales 1

Vacant land, per m²

Median price per square metre of vacant land sold, lots up to 2 ha · 2025 on still filling in: land bought off the plan reaches VG only when it settles

Source NSW Valuer General sales 1

House block size

Median land area of the houses sold · 563 m² in 2025

Source NSW Valuer General sales 1

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: 6 sales, median $1.86M

Source NSW Valuer General sales 1

Renting in postcode 2519

Median weekly rent
$710new bonds
2-bed unit
$575/ week
3-bed house
$750/ week
Rent growth since 2022
+24.5%mix-adjusted
Rent vs local income
62.7%of median income
Bonds lodged
428last 12 months

Source NSW Fair Trading rental bonds 4 · ATO Taxation Statistics 2023–24 5

How its land is zoned

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

Source NSW EPI zoning and heritage maps 14

Heritage

Homes on a heritage item or in a heritage conservation area: 0.1% in all · 0.2% 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 14

Strata schemes

134 strata schemes are registered in Fairy Meadow, with 1,108 lots between them, and 27% of its addresses are in one (NSW 25%). They were registered 27.9 years ago on average (NSW 29.1), which dates the scheme, not always its building.

Strata schemes
134
Strata lots
1,108
Addresses in a scheme
27%NSW: 25%
Average scheme age
27.9years 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 32

When its schemes were registered

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

1961 Act · to 19742.2%
1973 Act · 1974–9740%
1996 Act · 1997–201643%
2015 Acts · since 201615%

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 32

Building approvals

34 dwellings were approved in Fairy Meadow in 2025–26, 4.3 for every 1,000 residents (NSW 6.1): 11 houses and 23 other dwellings, such as townhouses and apartments. In 2026–27 to August, 6 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 31

Dwellings approved, 2025–26
34
Per 1,000 residents
4.3NSW: 6.1
Houses
11
Other dwellings
23townhouses, apartments

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 31

First home buyers and transfer duty

In 2025–26, about 20 first home buyers in Fairy Meadow were let off transfer duty or paid less under a NSW first home buyer scheme, down from 22 the year before. That's 0.1% of the 32,137 across NSW. Transfer duty on residential property here came to about $6.52M, 0.1% 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 (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, estimated from postcode figures

Grants aren't in this release.

Transfer duty paid on residential land

Duty paid each financial year, estimated from postcode figures

Duty paidNSW at its usual share (0.1%)

NSW, 2025–26: $10.6bn

Against NSW2020–212025–26Change
Duty here (estimate)$5.41M$6.52M+21%
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

02Safety

Is crime rising in Fairy Meadow?

75 incidents per 1,000 residents in 2025, close to the NSW rate (66.1).

Recorded crime per 1,000 residents

All offences except transport fare evasion

Fairy MeadowNSW

Source BOCSAR recorded crime 2

By offence type

2025 rate per 1,000 residents, with the NSW rate · lines show 2001–2025 · shaded: years above NSW

Violent crime1.0× NSW

10.9NSW 11.2 · 85 incidents

Property crime1.5× NSW

30.9NSW 21.2 · 240 incidents

Domestic violence assault0.9× NSW

4.1NSW 4.4 · 32 incidents

Home break-ins1.0× NSW

2.2NSW 2.1 · 17 incidents

Vehicle theft1.4× NSW

6.7NSW 4.7 · 52 incidents

Source BOCSAR recorded crime 2

How it ranks

Every suburb's 2025 rate, log scale

Source BOCSAR recorded crime 2

03People

Who lives in Fairy Meadow?

On income, education, jobs and housing together, Fairy Meadow ranks in the 43rd percentile of NSW suburbs.

SEIFA 2021 deciles

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

Advantage and disadvantageIRSAD5
DisadvantageIRSD · higher = less disadvantaged3
Economic resourcesIER2
Education and occupationIEO7

Source ABS SEIFA 2021 3

Postcode 2519 profile

Residents (2021)
17,227
Median age
41
Households renting
31.2%
Flats and apartments
11.6%
People per km²
1,856
Median taxable income
$59k
Taxpayers with a rental loss
7.1%

Source ABS Census 2021 6 · ATO Taxation Statistics 2023–24 5

Population

An estimated 7,778 people lived in Fairy Meadow at 30 June 2025, up 0.6% on a year earlier, against +1.2% across NSW. That's 191 more people than in 2015 (+2.5%).

Residents, June 2025
7,778estimated
Growth, year to June 2025
+0.6%NSW +1.2%
Since June 2015
+2.5%+191 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 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

Fairy Meadow grewshrankNSW that year

Source ABS Regional Population 7

Income

Residents of Fairy Meadow who lodged a tax return had a median income of $56,966 in 2022–23, against $58,909 across NSW. That's 17.6% more than in 2018–19 (NSW +19%). For 78.6%, most income came from wages and salaries.

Median income, 2022–23
$56,966NSW $58,909
Since 2018–19
+17.6%NSW +19%
Rank in NSW
…percentile of suburbs

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 8

Median income each year

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

Fairy MeadowNSW

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
$61,633
Own businessNSW $12,714
$12,981
InvestmentsNSW $240
$353
Super and annuitiesNSW $26,108
$23,720

Source ABS Data by Region 8

04Elections

How did Fairy Meadow vote?

Federal elections

At the 2025 federal election, the two-party-preferred vote in Fairy Meadow split an estimated 68.4% Labor to 31.6% Coalition, against 55.3% to 44.7% across NSW. That's a swing of 4.2 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
68.4%NSW 55.3%
Swing to Labor since 2022
+4.2 ptsNSW +3.9 pts
Informal votes
6.4%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

Fairy MeadowNSW50%, level

Votes each estimate is built from: 2007 80% · 2010 79% · 2013 72% · 2016 71% · 2019 100% · 2022 100% · 2025 46%

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

Its federal electorate, 2025

The division its residents vote in · the AEC's own count for the whole division, not an estimate

Cunningham

Elected: Alison BYRNES (Labor)

Final count, two candidates

Alison BYRNESLabor67.5%
Amanda IVANEZALiberal32.5%
First preferences, 6 candidates
Alison BYRNESLabor44.7%
Amanda IVANEZALiberal23.2%
Jess WHITTAKERThe Greens20.4%
John FULLERPauline Hanson's One Nation7.6%
Tim LAVERSAnimal Justice Party2.6%
Alexis GARNAUT-MILLERCitizens Party1.4%

132,139 enrolled · 115,474 formal votes · 5.4% 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 Fairy Meadow split an estimated 74.7% Labor to 25.3% Coalition, against 54.9% to 45.1% across NSW. That's a swing of 6.3 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 54% 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
74.7%NSW 54.9%
Swing to Labor since 2019
+6.3 ptsNSW +5.7 pts
Informal votes
3.8%NSW 3.3%
Built from
54%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

Fairy MeadowNSW50%, level

Votes each estimate is built from: 2015 71% · 2019 65% · 2023 54%

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

Its 2 state electorates, 2023

The districts its residents vote in, with the share of its residents (2021 Census) in each · the NSW Electoral Commission's own count for the whole district, not an estimate

Wollongong

Elected: Paul SCULLY (Australian Labor Party (NSW Branch))

Final count, two candidates

Paul SCULLYAustralian Labor Party (NSW Branch)74.3%
Joel JOHNSONThe Liberal Party of Australia, New South Wales Division25.7%
First preferences, 4 candidates
Paul SCULLYAustralian Labor Party (NSW Branch)56.5%
Joel JOHNSONThe Liberal Party of Australia, New South Wales Division22.0%
Cath BLAKEYThe Greens NSW16.7%
Kristen NELSONAnimal Justice Party4.8%

58,845 enrolled · 49,062 formal votes · 3.9% informal

Results on the NSW Electoral Commission site
Keira

Elected: Ryan PARK (Australian Labor Party (NSW Branch))

Final count, two candidates

Ryan PARKAustralian Labor Party (NSW Branch)74.2%
Noah SHIPPThe Liberal Party of Australia, New South Wales Division25.8%
First preferences, 4 candidates
Ryan PARKAustralian Labor Party (NSW Branch)57.8%
Noah SHIPPThe Liberal Party of Australia, New South Wales Division21.8%
Kit DOCKERThe Greens NSW14.6%
Andrew ANTHONYSustainable Australia Party - Stop Overdevelopment / Corruption5.7%

57,630 enrolled · 50,026 formal votes · 3.1% informal

Results on the NSW Electoral Commission site

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

05Hazards

Could fire or flood reach Fairy Meadow?

0.8% of addresses 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.

Addresses on bush fire prone land

By RFS category · 1.3% 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 11

Flood maps

Share of addresses, each at its most serious rung

Council LEP flood planning map, a planning control, not a flood forecast: 4,408 not in the council's LEP flood planning map.
100% of addresses are clear of what these maps looked at, and of nothing more.

Source NSW EPI flood planning maps 12

Live hazards within 5 km

Checking the live feeds…

Source Live Traffic NSW · NSW RFS 21

Official alerts: Hazards Near Me · Live Traffic NSW

Rooftop solar

Solar systems per 100 houses
34.4
Home batteries per 1,000 dwellings
52.7

Source Clean Energy Regulator 19

06Getting around

How easy is it to get around Fairy Meadow?

The nearest station or wharf is Fairy Meadow Station, 590 m from the middle of the suburb as the crow flies. Police recorded 127 crashes in which someone was killed or injured in Fairy Meadow over 2016–2025, about 13 a year; 46 of them were fatal or caused a serious injury. That's 1.7 a year per 1,000 residents, close to the NSW rate (1.7).

Nearest stations and wharves

Straight-line distance from the suburb's centre

Fairy Meadow StationTrain590 m
Towradgi StationTrain1.7 km
North Wollongong StationTrain1.7 km
Corrimal StationTrain2.7 km
Wollongong StationTrain3.4 km

Source TfNSW static GTFS 24

Travel time to the city

Coming with the TfNSW Trip Planner.Door-to-door public transport time to Sydney CBD and the nearest regional centre at 8 am on a weekday, precomputed per suburb.

Nearest traffic cameras

Live images, refreshed by TfNSW about once a minute

Memorial Drive (Towradgi)1.8 km awayShow on map
Princes Highway (Wollongong)1.8 km awayShow on map
M1 Princes Motorway (Mt Ousley)3.0 km awayShow on map

Source TfNSW Live Traffic Cameras 22

Crashes in which someone was hurt

Killed or injured, by reporting year · 127 over 2016–2025, and 84 more where a vehicle was towed away and no one was hurt

Someone killed or seriously injuredOther injury

Source TfNSW NSW Crash Data 15

How severe, and who was involved

2016–2025 together

Casualty crashes a year per 1,000 residents
1.7about the NSW rate (1.7)
Fatal or serious-injury crashes
46
People killed
2
Involving a pedestrian
12crashes
Involving a cyclist
16crashes
Involving a motorcycle
18crashes

Source TfNSW NSW Crash Data 15

Streets with the most casualty crashes

Within Fairy Meadow, 2016–2025

Princes Highway20 casualty crashes · 7 fatal or serious20
Old Princes Highway18 casualty crashes · 6 fatal or serious18
Elliotts Road15 casualty crashes · 3 fatal or serious15
Cabbage Tree Lane10 casualty crashes · 4 fatal or serious10
Mount Ousley Road10 casualty crashes · 5 fatal or serious10
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 15

Public transport

At 8–9am on a weekday, 44% of residents in Fairy Meadow live where public transport access is good: TfNSW level 4 (medium–high) or better, above NSW's 33% (higher is better). Their average level is 3.6 of 6 (medium–high), above NSW's 2.6. The share is much the same as in December 2022.

Average access level, 8–9am

TfNSW's 0–6 level, averaged over residents · weekday timetable, December 2025

Fairy Meadow 3.6NSW 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

Fairy MeadowNSW

Average level by December: 2022 3.6 · 2023 3.3 · 2024 3.6 · 2025 3.6

Source TfNSW PTAL 16

TfNSW counts registered vehicles by council, not by suburb: the council's figures, its battery electric share among them, are on the Wollongong page.

07Schools & services

Which schools is Fairy Meadow zoned for?

41% of homes here are zoned for Fairy Meadow Public School, and 63% for Keira High School. 3 government schools are in Fairy Meadow itself (3 primary).

Local primary schools

Share of the suburb's addresses inside each school's catchment

Fairy Meadow Public School41% of homes here are in its catchment · 342 students · ICSEA 1,00241%
Towradgi Public School37% of homes here are in its catchment · 134 students · ICSEA 1,03137%
Mount Ousley Public School23% of homes here are in its catchment · 193 students · ICSEA 1,07923%

Source NSW Department of Education 13

Local high schools

The catchment that takes year 7; single-sex schools marked

Keira High School63% of homes here are in its catchment · 723 students · ICSEA 98463%
Corrimal High School37% of homes here are in its catchment · 569 students · ICSEA 94037%

Source NSW Department of Education 13

Government schools in Fairy Meadow

Fairy Meadow Public SchoolPrimary School · 342 students · ICSEA 1,002
Mount Ousley Public SchoolPrimary School · 193 students · ICSEA 1,079
Towradgi Public SchoolPrimary School · 134 students · ICSEA 1,031

Source NSW Department of Education 13

How far is the local school?

Straight line from the middle home to its zoned school

Local primary school
0.5km
Local high school
1.8km
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 13

Ambulance

In 2025–26, ambulances were sent 198.9 times for every 1,000 residents of the area around Fairy Meadow (NSW 182.2). In April to June 2026, half of its emergency calls were reached within 13 minutes and nine in ten within 25 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

Fairy Meadow'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 28

Median response, April to June 2026
13minutes · NSW 14
Nine in ten reached within
25minutes · NSW 33
Ambulances sent per 1,000, 2025–26
198.9NSW 182.2
Incidents per 1,000, 2025–26
158.6NSW 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 28

08Business

Who's in business in Fairy Meadow?

An estimated 551 businesses registered for GST had an address in Fairy Meadow at 30 June 2025, 71 for every 1,000 residents (NSW 107). 7.8% turn over $2 million or more a year, against 8.8% across NSW. Compared with NSW, more of them are in health care and social assistance and other services (repairs, personal care).

Businesses, June 2025
551estimated
Per 1,000 residents
71NSW 107
Turning over $2m+
7.8%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 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

Health care and social help11%
Other services6%
Manufacturing3.8%
Retail trade6.7%
Public administration0.4%
Construction20%
Arts and recreation1.6%
Rental and real estate12%
Professional services14%
Accommodation and food4.2%
Media and telecoms1.1%
Transport and warehousing7.6%
Education and training1.5%
Finance and insurance4.4%
Admin and support3.3%
Wholesale trade2.2%
Electricity, gas, water0.2%
Agriculture, forestry, fishing0.7%
Mining0%
Fairy MeadowNSW share

Source ABS Data by Region 8

Going out

Fairy Meadow had 15 licensed venues on October 2026's list: 4 hotels, 2 clubs, 6 restaurants and other on-premises venues and 3 bottle shops. 2 are licensed past midnight. That's the same as 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 25

Poker machines

Bowerbird estimates that poker machines in clubs and hotels in Fairy Meadow made about $16M in net profit in 2025. It's a model, not a published figure: Liquor & Gaming NSW publishes net profit only by council.

Machine profit each year (estimate)

2021–2026 · 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 26

Active ABNs · supporting lens

Postcode 2519 has 4,897 active ABNs, and 624 new ones began in 2025.

New registrations by year

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

Source ABN Bulk Extract 20 · survivor-biased

Who holds the ABNs

Sole traders 49%Companies 24%Trusts 9%SMSFs 9%Strata 3%

Industries by company name

Property85
Construction67
Professional36
Health32
Trades31
Fitness & sport26
Tech & digital25

Source ABN Bulk Extract 20 · keyword match on company and trust names

§Sources

Where every number comes from

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. NSW Fair Trading rental bond lodgements. New bonds lodged Oct 2025 – Sep 2026, by postcode.
  5. ATO Taxation Statistics 2023–24, Individuals Table 6 (postcode). Median taxable income and net rental losses of people who lodged with a postcode here.
  6. ABS Census of Population and Housing 2021. Residents, age, renting and dwelling type. CC BY 4.0.
  7. 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.
  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 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.
  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. 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.
  12. 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.
  13. 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.
  14. 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.
  15. 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.
  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. 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.
  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. Clean Energy Regulator, small-scale installations by postcode. Solar systems per 100 separate houses (Census 2021, growth-adjusted).
  20. Australian Business Register, ABN Bulk Extract, 14 Oct 2026. Active ABNs by postcode. CC BY 3.0 AU.
  21. Live Traffic NSW (TfNSW) and NSW RFS major incidents.
  22. Transport for NSW, Live Traffic Cameras (camera list and webcam images). Still images, refreshed about once a minute; not video. CC BY 4.0.
  23. NSW FuelCheck service station prices, via API.NSW. Live, shown only when the Bowerbird live server is running with a key. Prices as stations last reported them.
  24. TfNSW Open Data static GTFS (Sydney Trains, Metro, Light Rail, Sydney Ferries). Station locations. CC BY 4.0.
  25. 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.
  26. 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.
  27. ABS Australian Statistical Geography Standard 2021: suburbs and localities, postal areas, LGAs. Boundaries. CC BY 4.0.
  28. 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.
  29. 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.
  30. © 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).

Suburb boundaries are ABS Suburbs and Localities (SAL 2021). For now, suburb figures are joined by name; they will move to the G-NAF locality ID.

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