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Ranked #121 of 422 Sydney suburbs for safety. Every number below comes from open data — official crime statistics, ABS census and GPS activity traces — not opinion.

| Population | 8,030 |
| Area | 6.24 km² |
| Postcode | 2099 |
| Median household income | $2,483/wk |
| Median rent | $650/wk |
| Median house price (Jan–Mar 2026) | $2,920,000 (39 sales this quarter; up 22.1% YoY, up 8.2% QoQ; postcode 2099, not suburb-level) |
| Median unit price (Jan–Mar 2026) | $1,100,000 (116 sales this quarter; up 15.6% YoY, down 2.2% QoQ; postcode 2099, not suburb-level) |
| Crime rate | 23.7 incidents per 1,000 people — 54% of offences are against property, 46% against the person |
| Parks | 14 (3.07 ha per 1,000 people) |
| Schools (government data) | 2 — 1 primary, 1 secondary; nearest primary 0.98 km, secondary 1.49 km |
| Families score | 59/100 (safety 30 · schools 25 · parks per 1,000 15 · kinders 10 · price-for-size 10 · transit 10) |
| Within 400m of a park | 58.1% of the suburb |
| Cafés | 2 |
| Gyms & sport venues | 74 |
| Public transport stops | 57 (57 bus stops) |
| Nearest parkrun | Curl Curl parkrun (4.22 km) |
| Schools nearby (OSM, not catchment zoning) | 2 schools in the suburb, plus 1 kindergarten — nearest is Cromer Public School (1.03 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 Cromer — the fields above are everything the census data behind this site currently carries.
The postcode for Cromer, Sydney is 2099.
There is no single invented "overall" score here -- Cromer is measured on 10 separate categories rather than blended into one number. Its strongest is safety, ranking #121 of 422 Sydney suburbs, and it ranks in the top half of Sydney for 4 of the 10 categories measured here. The full breakdown is above.
Yes — it is one of the safer parts of Sydney, scoring 71/100 for safety and ranking #121 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.
It rates about average on the family measures we can compute — safety 71/100, parks 46/100 and green space 38/100, with a median age of 41. It has 2 schools in the suburb, with the nearest primary 1.0 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 $2,920,000 in Jan–Mar 2026 (NSW DCJ Rent and Sales Report, postcode-level), up 22.1% YoY, up 8.2% QoQ. Median rent is $650 a week, and household income ranks #153 of 422 in Sydney. Against what the suburb offers, it scores 20/100 for value.
It scores 13/100 for transit, #368 of 422 in Sydney. That measures train, tram and bus access within the suburb boundary, weighted by mode.
58% of the suburb is within walking distance of a park, at 3.1 hectares per 1,000 residents — 38/100 for green space.
The nearest parkrun is Curl Curl parkrun, 4.2 km away, and GPS activity traces put it at 68/100 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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