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NSW · 4,347 suburbs · capital: SYD

NSW

Property data for NSW. Rent signals, largest suburbs, lower-price entries, the macro coverage picture, and a desk for ranking, comparing, and modelling without leaving the state.

NSW sits inside the Australian section of QuickProperty, but its data does not behave uniformly. Price and rent coverage are stronger in metro markets, thinner in regional ones, and the state's median is only ever as honest as that coverage. This bulletin opens with the suburbs that anchor most decisions — the largest by population and the most affordable with real scale — before handing off to the full state browse view below.

Treat the medians as starting reads. Treat the suburb pages as where the work actually happens. Treat compare and the calculator as the stages where the shortlist gets stress-tested before listings.

State of the bulletin

Five readings from NSW.

Suburbs indexed
4,347
Browsable from this bulletin.
Population indexed
8.1M
Across NSW suburbs.
Median house
$975K
3,030 suburbs with price data.
D6 vs AU
Median rent /wk
$325
3,797 suburbs with rent data.
D7 vs AU
Median income
$748
Personal income, ABS Census base.
D5 vs AU
National positioning

Where NSW sits among the states.

Median houseNSW · 3rd of 8
SA$1.10M
ACT$1.02M
NSW$975K
QLD$866K
WA$795K
VIC$725K
TAS$605K
NT$590K
Median rentNSW · 2nd of 8
ACT$447/wk
NSW$325/wk
QLD$280/wk
WA$271/wk
VIC$260/wk
SA$250/wk
TAS$250/wk
NT$202/wk
Gross yieldNSW · 7th of 8
NT3.0%
TAS2.6%
VIC2.5%
QLD2.3%
ACT2.3%
WA2.1%
NSW1.9%
SA1.6%

Median house price, median weekly rent, and median gross yield across QuickProperty's eight state datasets. Coverage differs by state, so treat these as screening positions, not valuations.

Investor profile

Investor profile · NSW

Owner-occupied 66%Rented 34%
Investor activityATO
Negatively geared48.22097307534421%
382,943 of 794,142 landlords
Avg rental loss$10,526/yr
Landlords (rental income)794,142
Reported capital gains462,086
The read

Negatively-geared growth belt

64% of homes here are owner-occupied and 33% rented, with 48% of landlords negatively geared.

What to check

48% of local landlords are negatively geared — investors here are betting on capital growth over rental income.

ABS Census 2021 tenure aggregated across the state's suburbs and ATO postcode rental statistics summed to state level. No state-level new-lending split is published; see the national page for lending flows.

State rent signals

NSW rent pressure, stress, and investor screens.

Areas
4,202
Median rent
$575/wk
Latest period
2026-05
Confidence
0 strong · 4,202 usable

SYD price trend

Median house · Sydney
$1.49M
+2.4% YoY · -4.8% QoQ
Median unit · Sydney
$848K
+3.4% YoY · -1.7% QoQ

SYD rent trend

Median weekly rent · Sydney 2000
$1100
+10.0% YoY · +7.3% 3M
Median house weekly · Sydney 2000
$1175
-17.5% YoY · -12.3% 3M
Median unit weekly · Sydney 2000
$1132
+13.2% YoY · -5.7% 3M
Source: NSW Fair Trading rental bond lodgements · postcode-derived · Latest: May 2026
Population projection

NSW projected to grow 14.3% by 2032.

ABS SA2-level projections rolled up to NSW, sum of 640 SA2 areas (male + female across all age brackets, base year 2022).

Base · 2022
8,165,731

Projected total population, NSW

+5y · 2027
8,820,393

+8.0% vs base

+10y · 2032
9,336,512

+14.3% vs base

Projected trajectory
2022–2032
Wholesale energy

NSW NEM spot price tracks at $82/MWh, down 33% on a year ago.

AEMO 5-minute price + demand data for NSW1, rolled to monthly averages over the last 13 months. Wholesale price is one of the larger inputs to retail electricity, ahead of network and retail margins.

Avg RRP · 2026-05
$82/MWh

-33.3% YoY

95th-pctile RRP
$159/MWh

Trades on the top 5% expensive intervals — the spike signal.

Peak demand
10,131 MW

Highest 5-min total demand in the month.

Solar adoption

NSW postcodes leading on rooftop solar.

Top postcodes ranked by Clean Energy Regulator small-scale installs per 1,000 residents. NSW cumulative: 1,167,636 installs across 663 postcodes, 8.42GW capacity, 82,514 added in the last 12 months.

See all NSW solar rankings → · Battery adoption →

Council areas

Browse NSW by LGA.

129 local government areas in NSW. Open an LGA for area-level rent, prices, and suburb roll-up.

Suburb directory

Every NSW suburb, A to Z.

4,347 NSW suburbs indexed. Jump to a letter, then open a suburb for prices, rent, schools, demographics, and investment signals.

A 119 suburbs
B 581 suburbs
C 433 suburbs
D 153 suburbs
E 130 suburbs
F 96 suburbs
G 247 suburbs
H 141 suburbs
I 21 suburbs
J 50 suburbs
K 174 suburbs
L 191 suburbs
M 438 suburbs
N 161 suburbs
O 60 suburbs
P 162 suburbs
Q 18 suburbs
R 157 suburbs
S 255 suburbs
T 264 suburbs
U 62 suburbs
V 16 suburbs
W 350 suburbs
Y 66 suburbs
Z 2 suburbs
FAQ

Four questions about NSW.

  1. How many NSW suburbs does QuickProperty cover?

    QuickProperty indexes 4,347 NSW suburb pages, with 3,030 suburbs carrying house price coverage and 3,797 suburbs carrying rent coverage in the current processed dataset.

  2. What is the median house price in NSW?

    Across NSW suburbs with available house price data, the median house price shown on this hub is $975K. Treat it as a suburb-screening benchmark, not a property valuation.

  3. What is the median weekly rent in NSW?

    Across NSW suburbs with available rent data, the median weekly rent shown on this hub is $325/wk. Individual suburb pages may differ materially from the state-level benchmark.

  4. What should I do after browsing the NSW hub?

    Start with the NSW rent signal cards when rent pressure matters, open a large suburb for context, use rankings if the state still feels too broad, or move two to three candidates into compare once you have a realistic shortlist.