Median elevation
33 m
range 21–49 m
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Housing
Rookwood
New South Wales · Census 2021
Median house price not tracked for this suburb
Rookwood (NSW) is a leafy residential suburb of Cumberland.
Household income
$1,874/wk64th pctile
of 4,352 NSW suburbs
Amenity score
2/1005th pctile
of 2,112 rated NSW suburbs
Median house price
No Valuer-General median for Rookwood (NSW).
New South Wales's Valuer-General sales data is open, but we have no suburb median for Rookwood (NSW) from it. ABS median established-house price, Greater Sydney: $1.5M; Rest of NSW: $825k.
How it compares
Household income / wk64th percentile
<$564ABS Census 2021$3,833+
Household income / wk
NSW · AU
NSW median suburb $1,583 · AU median suburb $1,562Rookwood (NSW) $1,874
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
3
Median age
51 yrs
Income / person / wk
$824
Household income / wk
$1,874
▲ 18% vs NSW
Median rent / wk
$243
Housing stock
4 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
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 →- Infrastructure & special purpose97%
- General / medium / high-density residential1.4%
- Industrial & employment0.7%
- Open space & recreation0.5%
- Low-density residential0.1%
In a heritage area
0%
conservation area / Heritage Overlay
Show on map →Listed heritage places
2
items in the LEP heritage schedule
Max building height
9 m
typical, residential land
Floor space ratio
0.75:1
floor area allowed per m² of site
mapped on 92% of residential land
Planning instruments: Cumberland Local Environmental Plan 2021; Strathfield Local Environmental Plan 2012. 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 (7.8%). 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
1
Libraries
0
GP clinics
0
Pharmacies
0
Hospitals
0
Nearest supermarket
1.7 km
Nearest train
1.5 km
Nearest hospital
2.6 km
Distance to coast
4.8 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
- 1.7 km
School sector & type: ACARA (Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority), School Location dataset.
Local council
- Council (LGA)
- Cumberland
- Population
- 256,906 (2025) · +1.6% in a year
- Area / density
- 73 km² · 3,534/km²
- Council medians (2021)
- age 34 · $1,678/wk household income · $415/wk rent
- Council-wide house median (2023-24)
- $1.3M
- Federal grants
- $9.83M in 2025-26 · $38/resident
- Website
- cumberland.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
- Blaxland
- Federal MP
- Jason Clare (ALP)
- Two-party-preferred
- Labor 72% 2PP
- State electorate
- Auburn
- State MP
- Lynda Voltz (ALP)
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.