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North Sydney
Ranked #3 of 422 Sydney suburbs for cafés. Every number below comes from open data — official crime statistics, ABS census and GPS activity traces — not opinion.
North Sydney suburb profile: score breakdown
North Sydney crime rate, rent, prices and other numbers
| Population | 8,964 |
| Area | 1.45 km² |
| Median household income | $2,405/wk |
| Median rent | $575/wk |
| Median house price (Jan–Mar 2026) | $4,070,000 (low sales volume; up 4.4% YoY, down 11.5% QoQ; postcode 2060, not suburb-level) |
| Median unit price (Jan–Mar 2026) | $1,260,000 (98 sales this quarter; down 1.6% YoY, up 2.4% QoQ; postcode 2060, not suburb-level) |
| Crime rate | 59.9 incidents per 1,000 people — 68% of offences are against property, 32% against the person |
| Parks | 18 (1.78 ha per 1,000 people) |
| Schools (government data) | 2 — 1 primary, 1 secondary; nearest primary 0.78 km, secondary 1.02 km |
| Families score | 58/100 (safety 30 · schools 25 · parks per 1,000 15 · kinders 10 · price-for-size 10 · transit 10) |
| Within 400m of a park | 94.2% of the suburb |
| Cafés | 58 |
| Gyms & sport venues | 132 |
| Public transport stops | 60 (2 train stations, 57 bus stops, 1 ferry wharf) |
| Nearest parkrun | North Sydney parkrun (0.74 km) |
| Schools nearby (OSM, not catchment zoning) | 11 schools in the suburb, plus 5 kindergartens — nearest is Wenona Girls School (0.3 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 North Sydney
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 North Sydney — the fields above are everything the census data behind this site currently carries.
Common questions about North Sydney
Is North Sydney a good suburb?
There is no single invented "overall" score here -- North Sydney is measured on 10 separate categories rather than blended into one number. Its strongest is cafés, ranking #3 of 422 Sydney suburbs, and it ranks in the top half of Sydney for 8 of the 10 categories measured here. The full breakdown is above.
Is North Sydney safe?
It is on the less safe side of Sydney, scoring 25/100 for safety and ranking #315 of 422 suburbs. Recorded offences run at 60 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 North Sydney good for families?
Mixed, and the weak spot is safety. Here are the family measures we can compute — safety 25/100, parks 87/100 and green space 56/100, with a median age of 36. It has 2 schools in the suburb, with the nearest primary 0.8 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 North Sydney expensive to live in?
The median house sale price was $4,070,000 in Jan–Mar 2026 (NSW DCJ Rent and Sales Report, postcode-level), up 4.4% YoY, down 11.5% QoQ. Median rent is $575 a week, and household income ranks #178 of 422 in Sydney. Against what the suburb offers, it scores 45/100 for value.
Does North Sydney have good public transport?
It scores 95/100 for transit, #21 of 422 in Sydney. That measures train, tram and bus access within the suburb boundary, weighted by mode.
Are there parks in North Sydney?
94% of the suburb is within walking distance of a park, at 1.8 hectares per 1,000 residents — 56/100 for green space.
Is North Sydney good for running?
The nearest parkrun is North Sydney parkrun, 0.7 km away, and GPS activity traces put it at 98/100 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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