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Ranked #53 of 422 Sydney suburbs for active. Every number below comes from open data — official crime statistics, ABS census and GPS activity traces — not opinion.

| Population | 13,507 |
| Area | 4.66 km² |
| Postcode | 2213 |
| Median household income | $2,036/wk |
| Median rent | $460/wk |
| Median house price (Jan–Mar 2026) | $1,680,000 (65 sales this quarter; up 1.8% YoY, down 1.5% QoQ; postcode 2213, not suburb-level) |
| Crime rate | 36.8 incidents per 1,000 people — 54% of offences are against property, 46% against the person |
| Parks | 23 (4.3 ha per 1,000 people) |
| Schools (government data) | 3 — 3 primary, 0 secondary; nearest primary 0.6 km, secondary 0.39 km |
| Families score | 60/100 (safety 30 · schools 25 · parks per 1,000 15 · kinders 10 · price-for-size 10 · transit 10) |
| Within 400m of a park | 76.1% of the suburb |
| Cafés | 2 |
| Gyms & sport venues | 42 |
| Public transport stops | 85 (1 train station, 84 bus stops) |
| Nearest parkrun | Panania parkrun (1.08 km) |
| Schools nearby (OSM, not catchment zoning) | 4 schools in the suburb — nearest is St Christophers Catholic Primary School (0.24 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 Panania — the fields above are everything the census data behind this site currently carries.
The postcode for Panania, Sydney is 2213.
There is no single invented "overall" score here -- Panania is measured on 10 separate categories rather than blended into one number. Its strongest is active, ranking #53 of 422 Sydney suburbs, and it ranks in the top half of Sydney for 6 of the 10 categories measured here. The full breakdown is above.
It is around the middle of the pack for Sydney, scoring 49/100 for safety and ranking #215 of 422 suburbs. Recorded offences run at 37 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 49/100, parks 66/100 and green space 51/100, with a median age of 38. It has 3 schools 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.
The median house sale price was $1,680,000 in Jan–Mar 2026 (NSW DCJ Rent and Sales Report, postcode-level), up 1.8% YoY, down 1.5% QoQ. Median rent is $460 a week, and household income ranks #275 of 422 in Sydney. Against what the suburb offers, it scores 59/100 for value.
It scores 45/100 for transit, #233 of 422 in Sydney. That measures train, tram and bus access within the suburb boundary, weighted by mode.
76% of the suburb is within walking distance of a park, at 4.3 hectares per 1,000 residents — 51/100 for green space.
The nearest parkrun is Panania parkrun, 1.1 km away, and GPS activity traces put it at 79/100 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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