Enmore is in Inner West LGA, NSW, postcode 2042, with population 3,871.
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48% of homes here are owner-occupied and 50% rented, with 6% of landlords negatively geared.
50% rented — renter-heavy areas turn over faster and are more exposed to rate moves and investor sentiment.
ABS Census 2021 tenure (G37), ATO postcode rental statistics, and QuickProperty's investor-exposure index. Owner-occupied = owned outright + with a mortgage.
This suburb 32% · NSW median 21%
Nationally · lighter rent burden than 4% of AU suburbs
Owners with a mortgage repay a median of $2,994/mo, while renters pay about $3,250/mo — renting runs $256/mo higher on these medians.
Getting to work: 19% drive, 7% public transport, 9% walk or cycle, 61% worked from home (2021 Census, taken during COVID-era work-from-home arrangements).
1 of 1 schools here operate published enrolment zones (catchments). Zone boundaries set eligibility — check the official source for the exact catchment. Not enrolment advice.
Top 77% most liveable of 4,565Australian suburbs.
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Suburb-level access-density index (not an address-level walk-time score), normalised within Australian suburbs. Method based on the Urban Liveability Index (Higgs et al. 2019) and Walk Score — three equal-weighted domains combined with an imbalance penalty.
Development screen
Permitted in residential zones under the Housing SEPP; may be approved by consent or as complying development when Housing SEPP and Codes SEPP standards are met.
Rental use: Secondary dwelling rental use is allowed as a dwelling use, subject to planning and tenancy rules.
Open official policy sourceSuburb share of occupied private dwellings recorded as separate houses.
61.9 pp below the state median
State median 77.5% · 1,253 valid suburbs
A comparable planning-zone layer is not staged for this state.
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23.6 pp above the state median
State median 25.9% · 1,253 valid suburbs
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Approval pathway
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Property due diligence
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Confirm occupation, rental, short-stay and family-use rules plus insurance and tax implications.
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Building due diligence
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Confirm marine or corrosive exposure and the applicable termite-management requirements.
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NCC 2022 Housing Provisions: how to use · NCC 2022 Volume Two and Housing Provisions
Active Airbnb listings point-mapped to this suburb from Inside Airbnb (CC BY 4.0). Occupancy and revenue are estimates from Inside Airbnb's San Francisco model (review-rate proxy, minimum-stay assumption, occupancy capped at 70%) — they are gross, indicative, and not a guarantee of returns. Short-stay letting is subject to state and local regulation.
ABS population projection (2022 base) for the Petersham - Stanmore SA2 statistical area — the finest official projection grain available; suburb-level projections do not exist.
Located in New South Wales within the Inner West local government area, Enmore is a compact suburb (postcode 2042). The area has roughly 3,871 residents and a mix of young professionals and families, with a median age of 35. Households earn a median income of $120K per year, with an average household size of 2.2 people. Recent annual estimates show population movement staying broadly stable across the broader catchment, with population growth running at +1.0% year-on-year at the LGA level. NSW employment has moved +1.2% year-on-year in the official ABS Labour Force trend series, which provides the broader jobs backdrop for this suburb. NSW also had 35 Commonwealth-backed major projects under construction, 17 underway, and 67 in planning as at 2025-09-01, which is useful as a broader delivery backdrop rather than a suburb-specific project count. The most common occupations are professionals, managers, clerical & administrative. Employment in the area leans toward professional services and healthcare. The top ancestries reported are English, Australian, Irish.
The current median weekly rent is $750. The median monthly mortgage repayment is $2,994.
Enmore is served by 1 school, including 1 primary. The average ICSEA score is 1100, which is well above the national average of 1,000. Public transport access includes 6 bus stops. The crime rate in the Inner West LGA is below average at 2,966 incidents per 100,000 population.
Looking at the investment signals, Population growth of +1.0% 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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Enmore is in the Inner West Local Government Area, NSW, postcode 2042. Council-level context for Inner West LGA (suburb mix, population, rent, and price coverage) is available on the QuickProperty LGA page.
The median weekly rent in Enmore is $750/wk, based on the current market rent dataset. The current rent signal is rent-pressure candidate.
Rent-pressure candidate: Enmore 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 Enmore 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.