Darlington is in Sydney LGA, NSW, postcode 2008, with population 2,597.
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Price series isn't recorded for this suburb. Census housing data is shown instead.
Owners with a mortgage repay a median of $3,200/mo, while renters pay about $3,692/mo — renting runs $492/mo higher on these medians.
Darlington (postcode 2008) is a smaller residential area in New South Wales within the Sydney local government area. It is home to about 2,597 residents, with a younger, working-age population and a median age of 27. Households earn a median income of $124K per year, with an average household size of 2.3 people. Recent annual estimates show population movement into the broader catchment, with population growth running at +1.8% year-on-year at the LGA level. NSW employment has moved +0.3% year-on-year in the official Jobs and Skills Australia NERO series, which provides the broader jobs backdrop for this suburb. NSW also had 37 Commonwealth-backed major projects under construction, 5 underway, and 75 in planning as at 2 October 2024, which is useful as a broader delivery backdrop rather than a suburb-specific project count.
The current median weekly rent is $852. The median monthly mortgage repayment is $3,200.
The crime rate in the Sydney LGA is moderate at 7,608 incidents per 100,000 population.
From an investment perspective, Population growth of +1.8% year-on-year points to stable demand fundamentals. Building approvals have changed +0% year-on-year, indicating steady development activity.
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Official sale records parsed from cached Bulk PSI ZIP files with parser guardrails for token sales, non-house zoning, and low-value strata component records
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Schools, transport, and hospitals are useful as presence signals, but they still have different source cadences.
This page stays indexable because Darlington is a real locality with enough context to be directionally useful. The tradeoff is that coverage is lighter than a stronger suburb profile, so the read should stay cautious.
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pop -400 · adds house price coverage · rent -$352/wk
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pop -300 · adds house price coverage · rent -$402/wk
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Darlington is in the Sydney Local Government Area, NSW, postcode 2008. Council-level context for Sydney LGA (suburb mix, population, rent, and price coverage) is available on the QuickProperty LGA page.
The median weekly rent in Darlington is $852/wk, based on the current market rent dataset. The current rent signal is rent-pressure candidate.
Rent-pressure candidate: Darlington rents screen above the local benchmark. Use this as a suburb screening signal before comparing candidates or modelling a purchase; the matching rent ranking can provide broader market context.
QuickProperty's investment signals for Darlington show: Stable, Steady. These are computed from price, rent, income, and population data — not an opaque score.
Property prices come from state Valuers General offices and ABS Data by Region. Demographics are from ABS Census 2021. School ICSEA scores are from ACARA. Crime statistics are from state police agencies. Transport data is sourced from GTFS feeds.
Property prices update quarterly. RBA macro indicators update with each deploy. Demographics are from Census 2021. School ICSEA scores are from ACARA 2025.