Median elevation
6 m
range 0–43 m
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Housing
Esk
New South Wales · Census 2021
Median house price not tracked for this suburb
Esk (NSW) is a leafy residential suburb of Richmond Valley.
Median house price
No Valuer-General median for Esk (NSW).
New South Wales's Valuer-General sales data is open, but we have no suburb median for Esk (NSW) from it. ABS median established-house price, Greater Sydney: $1.5M; Rest of NSW: $825k.
Terrain & hazard exposure
Land below 5 m
39%
17% 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 →- Conservation99%
- Rural0.1%
0.5% of the suburb sits outside any mapped zone (typically unzoned roads, water or land outside the scheme), so the shares add up to 99%.
In a heritage area
0%
conservation area / Heritage Overlay
Show on map →Listed heritage places
0
items in the LEP heritage schedule
Planning instruments: Richmond Valley Local Environmental Plan 2012; Clarence Valley 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.
Schools by sector
- Nearest secondary
- 17.5 km
School sector & type: ACARA (Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority), School Location dataset.
Local council
- Council (LGA)
- Richmond Valley · 61% of residents
- Also spans
- Clarence Valley (39%)
- Population
- 24,044 (2025) · +0.3% in a year
- Area / density
- 3,047 km² · 8/km²
- Council medians (2021)
- age 46 · $1,137/wk household income · $295/wk rent
- Council-wide house median (2023-24)
- $499k
- Federal grants
- $7.22M in 2025-26 · $300/resident
- Website
- richmondvalley.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
- Page
- Federal MP
- Kevin Hogan (NP)
- Two-party-preferred
- Coalition 59% 2PP
- State electorate
- Clarence
- State MP
- Richie Williamson (NAT)
Similar suburbs
Closest demographic & amenity profile, nationally.
Sources: ABS ASGS boundaries (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.