Median elevation
346 m
range 162–466 m
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Housing
Cataract
New South Wales · Census 2021
Median house price not tracked for this suburb
Cataract is a leafy residential suburb of Wollondilly.
Household income
$2,750/wk93rd pctile
of 4,352 NSW suburbs
Amenity score
6/10035th pctile
of 2,112 rated NSW suburbs
Median house price
No Valuer-General median for Cataract.
New South Wales's Valuer-General sales data is open, but we have no suburb median for Cataract from it. ABS median established-house price, Greater Sydney: $1.5M; Rest of NSW: $825k.
How it compares
Household income / wk93rd percentile
<$564ABS Census 2021$3,833+
Percentiles rank this suburb against New South Wales suburbs that carry the metric — never across states, and never against suburbs where it is missing. Price references are ABS median established-house transfer prices for the Mar 2026 quarter (CC BY 4.0); the suburb figure is a Valuer-General median over a different window, so read the gap as indicative. Income references are the Census 2021 median of the middle suburb in New South Wales and nationally, not a household-weighted median.
People & housing
Population
4
Median age
43 yrs
Income / person / wk
$1,824
Household income / wk
$2,750
▲ 74% vs NSW
Median rent / wk
$270
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. A statutory planning-control boundary, not a flood extent, and it can lag the latest flood study. Only the councils that lodged a flood map in their planning instrument are covered; everywhere else is shown as no statutory layer, not as 0%. NSW councils have owned flood-map currency since July 2021, so the state layer may be older than a council's own study. 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 →- Conservation94%
- Infrastructure & special purpose5.8%
- Open space & recreation<0.1%
In a heritage area
0.1%
conservation area / Heritage Overlay
Show on map →Listed heritage places
3
items in the LEP heritage schedule
Planning instruments: Wollongong Local Environmental Plan 2009; Wollondilly Local Environmental Plan 2011. 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: NSW EPI Land Zoning; NSW EPI Heritage.
Local amenities
Schools
0
Supermarkets
0
Pubs & bars
0
Parks
4
Libraries
0
GP clinics
0
Pharmacies
0
Hospitals
0
Nearest supermarket
9.1 km
Nearest train
9.0 km
Nearest hospital
8.9 km
Distance to coast
9.6 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).
Schools by sector
- Nearest secondary
- 9.6 km
School sector & type: ACARA (Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority), School Location dataset.
Local council
- Council (LGA)
- Wollondilly
- Population
- 62,080 (2025) · +3.9% in a year
- Area / density
- 2,555 km² · 24/km²
- Council medians (2021)
- age 37 · $2,151/wk household income · $415/wk rent
- Council-wide house median (2023-24)
- $1.1M
- Federal grants
- $4.92M in 2025-26 · $79/resident
- Website
- wollondilly.nsw.gov.au
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; council website from Wikidata (CC0).
Representation
- Federal division
- Cunningham
- Federal MP
- Alison Byrnes (ALP)
- Two-party-preferred
- Labor 68% 2PP
- State electorate
- Heathcote
- State MP
- Maryanne Stuart (ALP)
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); NSW Environmental Planning Instrument — Flood, NSW Department of Planning (CC BY 4.0); NSW Bush Fire Prone Land, NSW Rural Fire Service (CC BY 4.0); NSW Environmental Planning Instrument — Land Zoning, NSW Department of Planning (CC BY); NSW Environmental Planning Instrument — Heritage, NSW Department of Planning (CC BY); Wikipedia state-member tables (CC BY-SA 4.0). Not financial advice.