Median elevation
554 m
range 554–623 m
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Housing
Acton
Australian Capital Territory · Census 2021
Median house price not tracked for this suburb
Acton (ACT) is an inner-city suburb of Unincorporated ACT.
Median house price
No open median house price for Acton (ACT).
Australian Capital Territory publishes no open Valuer-General sales feed, so there is no official suburb median we can show. ABS median established-house price, Australian Capital Territory: $1.1M.
People & housing
Population
2,848
Median age
19 yrs
Income / person / wk
$257
Median rent / wk
$9
Who lives here
- Unemployment
- 17%
- +13 pts vs ACT
- In the labour force
- 58%
- −12 pts vs ACT
- Bachelor degree or higher
- 16%
- −26 pts vs ACT
- Earning $1–$499 a week
- 48%
- +32 pts vs ACT
- Earning $2,000+ a week
- 1%
- −21 pts vs ACT
Households for the family mix, residents aged 15+ for work, education and income; unemployment is a share of the labour force. ACT figures weight each suburb by its dwellings or residents. ABS Census 2021 (CC BY 4.0). Withheld for very small populations — under 100 residents, or under 50 dwellings, households or workers for the shares that count those.
Terrain & hazard exposure
Land below 5 m
0%
0% below 2 m
Shares are the proportion of the suburb's land area; where part of a suburb is unmapped, only its mapped land counts, so the share is a floor. Land where Landsat saw water in at least 1% of clear passes since 1987, excluding permanent water and filtered by DEA's confidence layer. Satellites miss flood peaks, so this is a floor, not a risk estimate; dense high-rise cores can still register tower shadow as water. The ACT has no open flood planning overlay; this is the ACT Government's modelled 1% AEP flood extent, a model of one flood event rather than a planning control. Land outside the modelled urban catchments is shown as no statutory layer. Designated for development control; a designation, not a prediction of fire behaviour. Elevation is orthometric height from a 30 m model; no hydrology or drainage is modelled.
Planning & zoning
Zoning mix (share of the suburb's land)
Show on map →- Growth area, deferred or unzoned98%
- Infrastructure & special purpose1.6%
- Low-density residential0.1%
- Centres & mixed use<0.1%
- Open space & recreation<0.1%
In a heritage area
1.5%
conservation area / Heritage Overlay
Show on map →Listed heritage places
1
on the ACT Heritage Register
Planning instruments: National Capital Plan; Territory Plan. Zones are grouped into ten families so states compare; the council's own scheme is the authority for any one lot. Listed-place counts follow each state's own list, so they do not compare across states. Source: ACT Territory Plan zones; ACT Heritage Register.
Local amenities
Schools
0
Supermarkets
1
Pubs & bars
2
Parks
14
Libraries
8
GP clinics
0
Pharmacies
1
Hospitals
0
Nearest supermarket
1.3 km
Nearest train
1.8 km
Nearest hospital
3.4 km
Distance to coast
107 km
Amenity counts via © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL) & Geoscience Australia HealthDirect (CC BY 4.0). Distance to coast derived from ABS state boundaries (CC BY 4.0).
Culture & community
- Dominant religion
- No religion · 52%
- Top language at home
- Mandarin · 3%
- No religion
- 52%
- Born overseas
- 32%
- English only at home
- 76%
Schools by sector
- Nearest secondary
- 2.4 km
School sector & type: ACARA (Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority), School Location dataset.
Local council
- Council (LGA)
- Unincorporated ACT
- Population
- 484,630 (2025) · +1.3% in a year
- Area / density
- 2,358 km² · 206/km²
- Council medians (2021)
- age 35 · $2,373/wk household income · $450/wk rent
- Council-wide house median (2023-24)
- $990k
- Federal grants
- $75.99M in 2025-26 · $157/resident
Council boundaries and the suburb split: ABS ASGS LGA 2024, allocated by 2021 mesh block and weighted by Census 2021 residents. Population: ABS Estimated Resident Population 2025. Medians: ABS Census 2021. House median: ABS Data by Region, established-house transfers across the whole council, financial year 2023-24. Federal grants: Financial Assistance Grants, Dept of Infrastructure. ABS and Dept of Infrastructure data CC BY 4.0.
Representation
- Federal division
- Canberra
- Federal MP
- Alicia Payne (ALP)
- Two-party-preferred
- Labor 76% 2PP
- State electorate
- Kurrajong
- State MP
- —
Similar suburbs
Closest demographic & amenity profile, nationally.
Sources: ABS ASGS boundaries (CC BY 4.0); ABS Census 2021 (CC BY 4.0); Australian Electoral Commission (CC BY 4.0); Geoscience Australia 1 Second DEM-S (CC BY 4.0); DEA Water Observations Statistics, Geoscience Australia (CC BY 4.0); ACT Flood Extent Model (1% AEP), ACT Government (CC BY 4.0); Bushfire Prone Area 2026, ACT Government (CC BY 4.0); Territory Plan Land Use Zones, ACT Government (ACTmapi) (CC BY 4.0); ACT Heritage Register (registered places), ACT Government (ACTmapi) (CC BY 4.0). Not financial advice.