Best suburbs to live in Sydney: North Shore and Northern Beaches. Sydney's North Shore and Northern Beaches are popular and it's not difficult to see why. Suburbs in the area have a more laid back feeling than those closer to the city.
Bellevue Hill — $8,750,000
Living in the most expensive area in Sydney comes with a hefty price tag and the median sits at an eye-watering $8.75 million, whereas units average $1.637 million. If you would like to rent a home in Bellevue Hill, get your money bags ready.
Canterbury offers home buyers the cheapest price per square metre of land within 10 kilometres of Sydney's CBD. Arncliffe and East Ryde are the next-best value options.
Meanwhile, Sydney's quietest suburbs include North Kellyville, which has an average noise level of 40 decibels, Varroville and Maroota (42 decibels) and St Ives Chase (45 decibels).
What are the poorest suburbs in Sydney? As per the Australian Taxation Office, there are many disadvantaged areas in Sydney including Blacktown, Fairfield, Carramar, Auburn, Parramatta, Campsie, Cabramatta, and others.
The country's lowest-ranked postcode (4713) is in central Queensland, a place called Woorabinda south-west of Rockhampton. The least advantaged place in Sydney (for the third census running) is Claymore (2559), which is located in the Campbelltown council area and contains a lot of public housing.
One of the more popular areas for China's new rich, in addition to the old money suburbs of Vaucluse, Bellevue Hill and Point Piper, is Hunters Hill.
Suburbs in the leafy north have been billed as the harbour city's healthiest places to live, new research shows. Thirty two suburbs received five-star ratings in the Domain Healthy Sydney study, the majority of which were located between the lower north's Wollstonecraft and the northern suburb of Berowra Heights.
Roseville, Mosman and Mount Kuring-Gai were top of the list.
Dover Heights is an affluent neighbourhood that hugs the top of the cliffs overlooking the Tasman Sea, meanwhile, Vaucluse is known for being an incredibly affluent area with peninsular and harbour views unlike any other. The entire suburb is home to some of Sydney's highest property prices and largest pay packets.
The friendliest town in NSW, Temora is a centre of heritage and culture. It is home to a carefully curated collection of warplanes and the only two flying Spitfires in Australia. The biennial Warbirds Downunder Airshow is a two-day, memorable experience featuring the largest gathering of Warbird Aircrafts in Australia.
Blacktown has the fastest growing population in Sydney and the second fastest growing suburb population across Australia, according to a new report, with many buyers favouring the area for its larger land sizes and affordable homes.
Hurstville, 16 kilometres south-west of the CBD, occupies a unique spot on Sydney's demographic map. With more than half of its residents reporting Chinese ancestry, it is the only suburb across all of NSW where one community of non-English migrants outnumbers everyone else combined.
The hospitality hub of Surry Hills is officially the coolest 'hood in the Harbour City in 2021, and given its collection of incredible eateries, pubs, bars and arguably the best collection of coffee shops in Sydney, it's not hard to see why. In second place was Newtown, followed by Marrickville, Manly and Bondi.
Westmead is one of the safest and most affordable suburbs in Sydney. Long established as family friendly, Westmead households are mostly couples with children and there are several well-regarded schools. Families seeking lower-density housing should consider south of the train station.
Some of the biggest affordability gains were in Sydney's west. Middle-of-the-road houses became affordable again for average earners in Hebersham, Colyton, St Marys and Oakhurst. In the southwest, house prices in Rosemeadow, Woodbine, Bradbury and Campbelltown were also affordable again.
A couple on the average income needs to look to outer suburbs like Mount Druitt and St Marys to comfortably afford the median-priced house for the area, while suburbs like Ryde or Newtown would be just in reach for unit buyers.
On the other end of the scale, the New South Wales regional towns of Gurley (2398), Burren Junction, Drildool, Nowley (2386), Boomi and Garah (2405), reported the lowest incomes. In these areas, the taxable incomes were negative for the 2019-2020 income year. This may be due to farming losses in the areas.