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Housing

Rhodes

New South Wales · Census 2021

$3.50M+6.4% yrmedian house · Dec 2025

Rhodes is a coastal suburb of Canada Bay.

Median house price
$3.50M96th pctile
of 2,365 priced NSW suburbs
Household income
$2,183/wk79th pctile
of 4,352 NSW suburbs
Amenity score
8/10040th pctile
of 2,112 rated NSW suburbs
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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 price96th percentile
<$160k2,365 priced suburbs$5.5M+
Household income / wk79th percentile
<$564ABS Census 2021$3,833+
Median house price+136% vs Greater Sydney · +324% vs Rest of NSW
SydneyRest of state
Greater Sydney $1.49M · Rest of NSW $825kRhodes $3.50M
Household income / wk
NSW · AU

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
11,453
Median age
32 yrs
Income / person / wk
$1,119
Household income / wk
$2,183
▲ 38% vs NSW
Median rent / wk
$560
Mortgage / month
$2,500

Who lives here

Couples with children
21%
−11 pts vs NSW
Living alone
26%
+1 pts vs NSW
Unemployment
6%
+1 pts vs NSW
In the labour force
70%
+11 pts vs NSW
Bachelor degree or higher
62%
+34 pts vs NSW
Earning $1–$499 a week
12%
−11 pts vs NSW
Earning $2,000+ a week
20%
+7 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

5,009 occupied private dwellings

Dwelling type
  • Separate house 3%
  • Flat or apartment 95%
  • Semi, terrace & other 2%

NSW: 65% separate houses · 22% flats & apartments

Tenure
  • Owned outright 11%
  • Mortgaged 28%
  • 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.

Socio-economic profile

IRSAD

Relative Socio-economic Advantage and Disadvantage

Score 1,134

Measures relative socio-economic advantage and disadvantage.

Within AustraliaDecile 10 of 10
Within New South WalesDecile 10 of 10

IRSD

Relative Socio-economic Disadvantage

Score 1,057

Measures relative socio-economic disadvantage only; a higher score means less disadvantage.

Within AustraliaDecile 8 of 10
Within New South WalesDecile 8 of 10

IER

Economic Resources

Score 944

Measures access to economic resources, including income, housing costs and assets.

Within AustraliaDecile 2 of 10
Within New South WalesDecile 2 of 10

IEO

Education and Occupation

Score 1,170

Measures relative education and occupation characteristics.

Within AustraliaDecile 10 of 10
Within New South WalesDecile 10 of 10

Scores are standardised across Australia to a mean of 1,000 and a standard deviation of 100. Deciles run from 1 (most disadvantaged) to 10 (least disadvantaged).

Source: ABS SEIFA 2021 (CC BY 4.0).

Terrain & hazard exposure

Median elevation
13 m
range 5–18 m
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)
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  • Centres & mixed use41%
  • Industrial & employment27%
  • Infrastructure & special purpose26%
  • Conservation2.9%
  • Open space & recreation2.1%
  • General / medium / high-density residential0.1%

0.6% of the suburb sits outside any mapped zone (typically unzoned roads, water or land outside the scheme), so the shares add up to 99%.

Listed heritage places
0
items in the LEP heritage schedule

Planning instruments: Canada Bay Local Environmental Plan 2013; State Environmental Planning Policy (Precincts—Central River City) 2021. 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 (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
1
Pubs & bars
0
Parks
0
Libraries
0
GP clinics
0
Pharmacies
1
Hospitals
0
Nearest supermarket
0.1 km
Nearest train
0.6 km
Nearest hospital
0.8 km
Distance to coast
0.6 km
NBN
FIXED LINE

Grocery mix: 1 Coles. 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 · 50%
Top language at home
Mandarin · 13%
No religion
50%
Born overseas
75%
English only at home
22%

Schools by sector

Nearest secondary
1.2 km

School sector & type: ACARA (Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority), School Location dataset.

Local council

Council (LGA)
Canada Bay
Population
93,006 (2025) · +0.7% in a year
Area / density
20 km² · 4,674/km²
Council medians (2021)
age 39 · $2,371/wk household income · $560/wk rent
Council-wide house median (2023-24)
$2.9M
Federal grants
$3.26M in 2025-26 · $35/resident

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
Reid
Federal MP
Sally Sitou (ALP)
Two-party-preferred
Labor 62% 2PP
State electorate
Drummoyne
State MP
Stephanie Di Pasqua (LIB)

Crime & safety

Break-ins
1,319/100k
91st percentile
Car theft
154/100k
50th percentile
Property damage
549/100k
28th percentile
Violent crime
1,259/100k
33rd percentile

FY2024–25, 2-yr pooled. Recorded incidents: NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research (BOCSAR); adjusted to the ABS Crime Victimisation Survey; ABS ERP population denominator. All CC BY 4.0. Percentile is the population-weighted rank among suburbs in the same state — higher means more reported crime. Ranks are never compared across states, because each police force counts offences under its own rules.

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); 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.