Median elevation
114 m
range 0–218 m
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Housing
Ku-ring-gai Chase
New South Wales · Census 2021
Median house price not tracked for this suburb
Ku-ring-gai Chase is a leafy residential suburb of Northern Beaches.
Household income
$1,708/wk57th 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 Ku-ring-gai Chase.
New South Wales's Valuer-General sales data is open, but we have no suburb median for Ku-ring-gai Chase from it. ABS median established-house price, Greater Sydney: $1.5M; Rest of NSW: $825k.
How it compares
Household income / wk57th percentile
<$564ABS Census 2021$3,833+
Household income / wk
NSW · AU
NSW median suburb $1,583 · AU median suburb $1,562Ku-ring-gai Chase $1,708
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
10
Median age
58 yrs
Income / person / wk
$1,375
Household income / wk
$1,708
▲ 8% vs NSW
Housing stock
9 occupied private dwellings
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
4.5%
4.2% 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 →- Conservation97%
- Rural1.0%
- Waterways1.0%
- Open space & recreation0.9%
- Infrastructure & special purpose0.6%
- Low-density residential<0.1%
- Industrial & employment<0.1%
In a heritage area
0.2%
conservation area / Heritage Overlay
Show on map →Listed heritage places
8
items in the LEP heritage schedule
Max building height
8.5 m
typical, residential land
Minimum lot size
600 m²
to subdivide residential land
Planning instruments: Warringah Local Environmental Plan 2011; Pittwater Local Environmental Plan 2014; Hornsby Local Environmental Plan 2013. 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): floor space ratio (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
0
Supermarkets
0
Pubs & bars
0
Parks
4
Libraries
0
GP clinics
0
Pharmacies
0
Hospitals
0
Nearest supermarket
7.1 km
Nearest train
7.6 km
Nearest hospital
6.5 km
Distance to coast
3.2 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
- 5.0 km
School sector & type: ACARA (Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority), School Location dataset.
Local council
- Council (LGA)
- Northern Beaches
- Population
- 272,656 (2025) · +0.5% in a year
- Area / density
- 254 km² · 1,073/km²
- Council medians (2021)
- age 41 · $2,592/wk household income · $625/wk rent
- Council-wide house median (2023-24)
- $2.6M
- Federal grants
- $10.08M in 2025-26 · $37/resident
- Website
- northernbeaches.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
- Mackellar
- Federal MP
- Sophie Scamps (IND)
- Two-party-preferred
- Coalition 54% 2PP
- State electorate
- Pittwater
- State MP
- Jacqui Scruby (IND)
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); 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.