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Alfords Point
Ranked #6 of 422 Sydney suburbs for green space. Every number below comes from open data — official crime statistics, ABS census and GPS activity traces — not opinion.
Alfords Point suburb profile: score breakdown
Alfords Point crime rate, rent, prices and other numbers
| Population | 3,131 |
| Area | 3.02 km² |
| Postcode | 2234 |
| Median household income | $2,969/wk |
| Median rent | $768/wk |
| Median house price (Jan–Mar 2026) | $1,880,000 (59 sales this quarter; up 4.2% YoY, down 3.5% QoQ; postcode 2234, not suburb-level) |
| Median unit price (Jan–Mar 2026) | $1,210,000 (low sales volume; up 8.8% YoY, down 1.6% QoQ; postcode 2234, not suburb-level) |
| Crime rate | 23.6 incidents per 1,000 people — 47% of offences are against property, 53% against the person |
| Parks | 8 (30.27 ha per 1,000 people) |
| Schools (government data) | 1 — 1 primary, 0 secondary; nearest primary 0.6 km, secondary 1.76 km |
| Families score | 76/100 (safety 30 · schools 25 · parks per 1,000 15 · kinders 10 · price-for-size 10 · transit 10) |
| Within 400m of a park | 99.8% of the suburb |
| Cafés | 0 |
| Gyms & sport venues | 7 |
| Public transport stops | 17 (17 bus stops) |
| Nearest parkrun | Menai parkrun (3.4 km) |
| Schools nearby (OSM, not catchment zoning) | 1 school in the suburb, plus 1 kindergarten — nearest is Alfords Point Public School (0.63 km) |
Sale prices: NSW DCJ Rent and Sales Report, January - March 2026 quarter — © State of New South Wales (Department of Communities and Justice), Rent and Sales Report, CC BY 4.0; suburb-to-postcode mapping © GeoNames.org, CC BY 4.0. NSW publishes no free suburb-level sale medians, so this is the median for the suburb's POSTCODE (non-strata sales = houses, strata = units), which can span several suburbs. Low-volume figures rest on 30 or fewer sales in the quarter; postcodes with 10 or fewer sales are withheld by DCJ.
Who lives in Alfords Point
Source: ABS Census 2021; sale prices NSW DCJ Rent and Sales Report, January - March 2026 quarter. We do not hold a suburb-level renter/owner split, families-with-children rate, born-overseas rate or dwelling-type breakdown for Alfords Point — the fields above are everything the census data behind this site currently carries.
Common questions about Alfords Point
What is the postcode for Alfords Point?
The postcode for Alfords Point, Sydney is 2234.
Is Alfords Point a good suburb?
There is no single invented "overall" score here -- Alfords Point is measured on 10 separate categories rather than blended into one number. Its strongest is green space, ranking #6 of 422 Sydney suburbs, and it ranks in the top half of Sydney for 5 of the 10 categories measured here. The full breakdown is above.
Is Alfords Point safe?
Yes — it is one of the safer parts of Sydney, scoring 71/100 for safety and ranking #119 of 422 suburbs. Recorded offences run at 24 per 1,000 residents. That score is recorded offences per 1,000 residents from official crime statistics, as a percentile against every other suburb in the city.
Is Alfords Point good for families?
It rates well on the family measures we can compute — safety 71/100, parks 58/100 and green space 92/100, with a median age of 43. It has 1 school in the suburb, with the nearest primary 0.6 km from its centre. School counts and distances feed the families score; catchment zoning and school results do not (we cannot publish those) — see our Sydney families ranking for the full method.
Is Alfords Point expensive to live in?
The median house sale price was $1,880,000 in Jan–Mar 2026 (NSW DCJ Rent and Sales Report, postcode-level), up 4.2% YoY, down 3.5% QoQ. Median rent is $768 a week, and household income ranks #75 of 422 in Sydney. Against what the suburb offers, it scores 23/100 for value.
Does Alfords Point have good public transport?
It scores 6/100 for transit, #396 of 422 in Sydney. That measures train, tram and bus access within the suburb boundary, weighted by mode.
Are there parks in Alfords Point?
100% of the suburb is within walking distance of a park, at 30.3 hectares per 1,000 residents — 92/100 for green space.
Is Alfords Point good for running?
The nearest parkrun is Menai parkrun, 3.4 km away, and GPS activity traces put it at 30/100 for how much walking, running and riding actually happens there.
Scores are percentiles against every other suburb in Sydney: 100 is the
best in the city, 50 is mid-table. Updated October 2026 (last updated 2026-10-12). Sources: open GPS activity traces,
official crime statistics, ABS census, OpenStreetMap.
About this data: every number on this page is computed from public sources — it is not an
opinion or a sponsored placement. See how we rank suburbs
for the full method.
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