IRSAD
Relative Socio-economic Advantage and Disadvantage
Score 1,197
Measures relative socio-economic advantage and disadvantage.
Within AustraliaDecile 10 of 10
Within New South WalesDecile 10 of 10
For state-level context, explore the New South Wales economy.
Housing
The Rocks
Sydney · New South Wales · Census 2021
Median house price not tracked for this suburb
The Rocks (Sydney - NSW) is a coastal suburb of Sydney.
Household income
$4,374/wk99th pctile
of 4,352 NSW suburbs
Amenity score
44/10082nd pctile
of 2,112 rated NSW suburbs
Median house price
No Valuer-General median for The Rocks (Sydney - NSW).
New South Wales's Valuer-General sales data is open, but we have no suburb median for The Rocks (Sydney - NSW) from it. ABS median established-house price, Greater Sydney: $1.5M; Rest of NSW: $810k.
How it compares
Household income / wk99th percentile
<$564ABS Census 2021$3,833+
Household income / wk
NSW · AU
NSW median suburb $1,583 · AU median suburb $1,562The Rocks (Sydney - NSW) $4,374
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 Jun 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
629
Median age
43 yrs
Income / person / wk
$1,911
Household income / wk
$4,374
▲ 176% vs NSW
Median rent / wk
$850
Mortgage / month
$4,333
Who lives here
- Couples with children
- 13%
- −20 pts vs NSW
- Living alone
- 49%
- +24 pts vs NSW
- Unemployment
- 3%
- −2 pts vs NSW
- In the labour force
- 70%
- +11 pts vs NSW
- Bachelor degree or higher
- 59%
- +31 pts vs NSW
- Earning $1–$499 a week
- 6%
- −16 pts vs NSW
- Earning $2,000+ a week
- 44%
- +31 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
275 occupied private dwellings
- Separate house 0%
- Flat or apartment 95%
- Semi, terrace & other 5%
NSW: 65% separate houses · 22% flats & apartments
- Owned outright 26%
- Mortgaged 12%
- Rented 57%
- Other & not stated 5%
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
IRSD
Relative Socio-economic Disadvantage
Score 1,107
Measures relative socio-economic disadvantage only; a higher score means less disadvantage.
Within AustraliaDecile 10 of 10
Within New South WalesDecile 10 of 10
IER
Economic Resources
Score 967
Measures access to economic resources, including income, housing costs and assets.
Within AustraliaDecile 3 of 10
Within New South WalesDecile 2 of 10
IEO
Education and Occupation
Score 1,203
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
22 m
range 9–58 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
The statewide zoning map covers only 2.9% of this suburb; the rest is planned under an instrument that map does not carry, so no zoning mix or heritage figure is given for it.
Planning instrument: Sydney 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. Source: NSW EPI Land Zoning.
Local amenities
Schools
0
Supermarkets
0
Pubs & bars
8
Parks
4
Libraries
0
GP clinics
0
Pharmacies
0
Hospitals
0
Nearest supermarket
0.4 km
Nearest train
0.3 km
Nearest hospital
1.1 km
Distance to coast
0.6 km
NBN
FIXED LINE
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 · 39%
- Top language at home
- Cantonese · 2%
- No religion
- 39%
- Born overseas
- 50%
- English only at home
- 70%
Schools by sector
- Nearest secondary
- 0.1 km
School sector & type: ACARA (Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority), School Location dataset.
Local council
- Council (LGA)
- Sydney
- Population
- 241,797 (2025) · +1.8% in a year
- Area / density
- 27 km² · 9,056/km²
- Council medians (2021)
- age 34 · $2,212/wk household income · $550/wk rent
- Council-wide house median (2023-24)
- $2.1M
- Federal grants
- $8.12M in 2025-26 · $34/resident
- Website
- cityofsydney.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
- Sydney
- Federal MP
- Tanya Plibersek (ALP)
- Two-party-preferred
- Labor 78% 2PP
- State electorate
- Sydney
- State MP
- Alex Greenwich (IND)
Where it is in New South Wales
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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); Wikipedia state-member tables (CC BY-SA 4.0). Not financial advice.