Median elevation
340 m
range 59–700 m
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Housing
Macquarie Pass
New South Wales · Census 2021
Median house price not tracked for this suburb
Macquarie Pass is a leafy residential suburb of Shellharbour.
Median house price
No Valuer-General median for Macquarie Pass.
New South Wales's Valuer-General sales data is open, but we have no suburb median for Macquarie Pass from it. ABS median established-house price, Greater Sydney: $1.5M; Rest of NSW: $825k.
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 →- Conservation98%
- Infrastructure & special purpose1.3%
- Rural0.2%
In a heritage area
97%
conservation area / Heritage Overlay
Show on map →Listed heritage places
3
items in the LEP heritage schedule
Planning instruments: Shellharbour Local Environmental Plan 2013; Wollongong Local Environmental Plan 2009; Wingecarribee 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. 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
2
Libraries
0
GP clinics
0
Pharmacies
0
Hospitals
0
Nearest supermarket
10.3 km
Nearest train
7.0 km
Nearest hospital
16.4 km
Distance to coast
12.4 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
- 8.6 km
School sector & type: ACARA (Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority), School Location dataset.
Local council
- Council (LGA)
- Shellharbour
- Population
- 83,228 (2025) · +1.9% in a year
- Area / density
- 147 km² · 565/km²
- Council medians (2021)
- age 39 · $1,647/wk household income · $420/wk rent
- Council-wide house median (2023-24)
- $920k
- Federal grants
- $6.96M in 2025-26 · $84/resident
- Website
- shellharbour.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
- Whitlam
- Federal MP
- Carol Berry (ALP)
- Two-party-preferred
- Labor 56% 2PP
- State electorate
- Kiama
- State MP
- Gareth Ward (IND)
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.