Median elevation
29 m
range 18–43 m
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Housing
Darlington
Sydney · New South Wales · Census 2021
$1.67M-2.8% yrmedian house · Dec 2025
Darlington (Sydney - NSW) is a coastal suburb of Sydney.
Median house price
$1.67M79th pctile
of 2,365 priced NSW suburbs
Household income
$2,392/wk86th pctile
of 4,352 NSW suburbs
Amenity score
48/10084th pctile
of 2,112 rated NSW suburbs
Median house price
Rolling median of settled transfers, state Valuer-General open data (CC BY 4.0). Median of New South Wales suburb medians: $1.0M.
How it compares
Median house price79th percentile
<$160k2,365 priced suburbs$5.5M+
Household income / wk86th percentile
<$564ABS Census 2021$3,833+
Median house price+12% vs Greater Sydney · +102% vs Rest of NSW
SydneyRest of state
Greater Sydney $1.49M · Rest of NSW $825kDarlington (Sydney - NSW) $1.67M
Household income / wk
NSW · AU
NSW median suburb $1,583 · AU median suburb $1,562Darlington (Sydney - NSW) $2,392
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
2,597
Median age
27 yrs
Income / person / wk
$780
Household income / wk
$2,392
▲ 51% vs NSW
Median rent / wk
$650
Mortgage / month
$3,200
Who lives here
- Couples with children
- 11%
- −21 pts vs NSW
- Living alone
- 30%
- +5 pts vs NSW
- Unemployment
- 9%
- +4 pts vs NSW
- In the labour force
- 66%
- +8 pts vs NSW
- Bachelor degree or higher
- 51%
- +24 pts vs NSW
- Earning $1–$499 a week
- 20%
- −2 pts vs NSW
- Earning $2,000+ a week
- 18%
- +4 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.
Housing stock
820 occupied private dwellings
- Separate house 4%
- Flat or apartment 19%
- Semi, terrace & other 77%
NSW: 65% separate houses · 22% flats & apartments
- Owned outright 17%
- Mortgaged 21%
- Rented 59%
- Other & not stated 3%
NSW: 31% owned outright · 33% mortgaged · 33% rented
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. 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 →- Infrastructure & special purpose49%
- General / medium / high-density residential43%
- Centres & mixed use7.5%
- Open space & recreation0.6%
In a heritage area
47%
conservation area / Heritage Overlay
Show on map →Listed heritage places
22
items in the LEP heritage schedule
Max building height
9 m
typical; up to 15 m
mapped on 59% of residential land
Floor space ratio
1.25:1
floor area allowed per m² of site
mapped on 59% of residential land
Planning instruments: Sydney Local Environmental Plan 2012; State Environmental Planning Policy (Precincts—Eastern Harbour City) 2021. Zones are grouped into ten families so states compare; the council's own scheme is the authority for any one lot. Height, floor space ratio and lot size are the NSW Local Environmental Plan standards: the area-weighted median over the residential-zoned land where the LEP maps that standard, given only where it maps it on at least half of that land; clause-based exceptions are not modelled. Not given because the LEP maps it on under half of the suburb's residential land (usually only its centres): minimum lot size (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
1
Supermarkets
1
Pubs & bars
3
Parks
11
Libraries
1
GP clinics
1
Pharmacies
0
Hospitals
0
Nearest supermarket
0.3 km
Nearest train
0.5 km
Nearest hospital
1.0 km
Distance to coast
1.7 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 · 64%
- Top language at home
- Mandarin · 5%
- No religion
- 64%
- Born overseas
- 44%
- English only at home
- 68%
Schools by sector
- Government / Catholic / Indep.
- 1 / 0 / 0
- Primary / Secondary
- 1 / 0
- Nearest secondary
- 0.5 km
School sector & type: ACARA (Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority), School Location dataset.
Local council
- Council (LGA)
- Sydney
- Population
- 241,797 (2025) · +1.8% in a year
- Area / density
- 27 km² · 9,056/km²
- Council medians (2021)
- age 34 · $2,212/wk household income · $550/wk rent
- Council-wide house median (2023-24)
- $2.1M
- Federal grants
- $8.12M in 2025-26 · $34/resident
- Website
- cityofsydney.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
- Sydney
- Federal MP
- Tanya Plibersek (ALP)
- Two-party-preferred
- Labor 78% 2PP
- State electorate
- Newtown
- State MP
- Jenny Leong (GRN)
Comparable suburbs
Closest by median house price across NSW.
Similar suburbs
Closest demographic & amenity profile, nationally.
Sources: ABS ASGS boundaries (CC BY 4.0); ABS Census 2021 (CC BY 4.0); New South Wales Valuer-General settled transfers (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.