Median elevation
229 m
range 193–282 m
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Housing
Charles Sturt University
New South Wales · Census 2021
Median house price not tracked for this suburb
Charles Sturt University is a bushland suburb of Wagga Wagga.
Household income
$2,750/wk93rd pctile
of 4,352 NSW suburbs
Amenity score
14/10056th pctile
of 2,112 rated NSW suburbs
Median house price
No Valuer-General median for Charles Sturt University.
New South Wales's Valuer-General sales data is open, but we have no suburb median for Charles Sturt University 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+
Household income / wk
NSW · AU
NSW median suburb $1,583 · AU median suburb $1,562Charles Sturt University $2,750
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
433
Median age
20 yrs
Income / person / wk
$317
Household income / wk
$2,750
▲ 74% vs NSW
Median rent / wk
$315
Who lives here
- Unemployment
- 20%
- +15 pts vs NSW
- In the labour force
- 56%
- −2 pts vs NSW
- Bachelor degree or higher
- 7%
- −21 pts vs NSW
- Earning $1–$499 a week
- 65%
- +42 pts vs NSW
- Earning $2,000+ a week
- 0%
- −14 pts vs NSW
Households for the family mix, residents aged 15+ for work, education and income; unemployment is a share of the labour force. NSW 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. 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. No flood map lodged in the NSW planning instruments for most of this suburb; most councils keep theirs in a development control plan. 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 →- Infrastructure & special purpose89%
- General / medium / high-density residential7.6%
- Rural2.5%
- Open space & recreation0.4%
- Low-density residential0.1%
In a heritage area
0%
conservation area / Heritage Overlay
Show on map →Listed heritage places
3
items in the LEP heritage schedule
Planning instrument: Wagga Wagga Local Environmental Plan 2010. Zones are grouped into ten families so states compare; the council's own scheme is the authority for any one lot. Not given because the LEP maps them on under half of the suburb's residential land (usually only its centres): maximum building height (0%), floor space ratio (0%), minimum lot size (2.0%). Listed-place counts follow each state's own list, so they do not compare across states. Source: NSW EPI Land Zoning; NSW EPI Heritage; NSW EPI Height of Buildings, Floor Space Ratio and Lot Size.
Local amenities
Schools
2
Supermarkets
0
Pubs & bars
0
Parks
1
Libraries
1
GP clinics
0
Pharmacies
0
Hospitals
0
Nearest supermarket
1.6 km
Nearest train
6.6 km
Nearest hospital
6.3 km
Distance to coast
265 km
NBN
FIXED LINE
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 · 44%
- Top language at home
- Malayalam · 1%
- No religion
- 44%
- Born overseas
- 11%
- English only at home
- 89%
Schools by sector
- Government / Catholic / Indep.
- 1 / 0 / 1
- Primary / Secondary
- 2 / 1
- Nearest secondary
- 0.5 km
School sector & type: ACARA (Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority), School Location dataset.
Local council
- Council (LGA)
- Wagga Wagga
- Population
- 69,108 (2025) · +0.0% in a year
- Area / density
- 4,825 km² · 14/km²
- Council medians (2021)
- age 35 · $1,638/wk household income · $300/wk rent
- Council-wide house median (2023-24)
- $615k
- Federal grants
- $13.36M in 2025-26 · $193/resident
- Website
- wagga.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
- Riverina
- Federal MP
- Michael McCormack (NP)
- Two-party-preferred
- Coalition 63% 2PP
- State electorate
- Wagga Wagga
- State MP
- Joe McGirr (IND)
Where it is in New South Wales
View on the full New South Wales map →Similar suburbs
Closest demographic & amenity profile, nationally.
Sources: ABS ASGS boundaries (CC BY 4.0); ABS Census 2021 (CC BY 4.0); ACARA School Locations (CC BY 4.0); © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL); 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); NSW Environmental Planning Instrument — Height of Buildings, Floor Space Ratio and Minimum Lot Size, NSW Department of Planning (CC BY); Wikipedia state-member tables (CC BY-SA 4.0). Not financial advice.