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Ranked #23 of 422 Sydney suburbs for parks. Every number below comes from open data — official crime statistics, ABS census and GPS activity traces — not opinion.

| Population | 1,521 |
| Area | 0.84 km² |
| Postcode | 2067 |
| Median household income | $3,121/wk |
| Median rent | $750/wk |
| Median house price (Jan–Mar 2026) | $3,190,000 (low sales volume; up 9.7% YoY, down 7.3% QoQ; postcode 2067, not suburb-level) |
| Median unit price (Jan–Mar 2026) | $1,160,000 (47 sales this quarter; down 10.8% YoY, up 85.0% QoQ; postcode 2067, not suburb-level) |
| Crime rate | 30.2 incidents per 1,000 people — 70% of offences are against property, 30% against the person |
| Parks | 6 (7.32 ha per 1,000 people) |
| Schools (government data) | 0 — 0 primary, 0 secondary; nearest primary 0.65 km, secondary 0.65 km |
| Families score | 55/100 (safety 30 · schools 25 · parks per 1,000 15 · kinders 10 · price-for-size 10 · transit 10) |
| Within 400m of a park | 99.1% of the suburb |
| Cafés | 0 |
| Gyms & sport venues | 5 |
| Public transport stops | 22 (22 bus stops) |
| Nearest parkrun | Willoughby parkrun (3.47 km) |
| Schools nearby (OSM, not catchment zoning) | 0 schools in the suburb — nearest is Lindfield College (0.68 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.
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 Chatswood West — the fields above are everything the census data behind this site currently carries.
The postcode for Chatswood West, Sydney is 2067.
There is no single invented "overall" score here -- Chatswood West is measured on 10 separate categories rather than blended into one number. Its strongest is parks, ranking #23 of 422 Sydney suburbs, and it ranks in the top half of Sydney for 7 of the 10 categories measured here. The full breakdown is above.
It is around the middle of the pack for Sydney, scoring 59/100 for safety and ranking #173 of 422 suburbs. Recorded offences run at 30 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.
It rates well on the family measures we can compute — safety 59/100, parks 90/100 and green space 85/100, with a median age of 42. It has 0 schools in the suburb, with the nearest primary 0.7 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.
The median house sale price was $3,190,000 in Jan–Mar 2026 (NSW DCJ Rent and Sales Report, postcode-level), up 9.7% YoY, down 7.3% QoQ. Median rent is $750 a week, and household income ranks #56 of 422 in Sydney. Against what the suburb offers, it scores 43/100 for value.
It scores 68/100 for transit, #137 of 422 in Sydney. That measures train, tram and bus access within the suburb boundary, weighted by mode.
99% of the suburb is within walking distance of a park, at 7.3 hectares per 1,000 residents — 85/100 for green space.
The nearest parkrun is Willoughby parkrun, 3.5 km away, and GPS activity traces put it at 71/100 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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