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Rose Bay
Ranked #16 of 422 Sydney suburbs for schools nearby (osm). Every number below comes from open data — official crime statistics, ABS census and GPS activity traces — not opinion.
Rose Bay suburb profile: score breakdown
Rose Bay crime rate, rent, prices and other numbers
| Population | 9,911 |
| Area | 2.52 km² |
| Postcode | 2029 |
| Median household income | $2,539/wk |
| Median rent | $630/wk |
| Median house price (Jan–Mar 2026) | withheld by source (too few sales in Jan–Mar 2026) |
| Median unit price (Jan–Mar 2026) | $1,600,000 (31 sales this quarter; down 10.0% YoY, down 5.9% QoQ; postcode 2029, not suburb-level) |
| Crime rate | 36.3 incidents per 1,000 people — 54% of offences are against property, 46% against the person |
| Parks | 9 (0.94 ha per 1,000 people) |
| Schools (government data) | 2 — 1 primary, 1 secondary; nearest primary 0.41 km, secondary 1.12 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 | 58.4% of the suburb |
| Cafés | 5 |
| Gyms & sport venues | 80 |
| Public transport stops | 62 (61 bus stops, 1 ferry wharf) |
| Nearest parkrun | Centennial parkrun (4.39 km) |
| Schools nearby (OSM, not catchment zoning) | 6 schools in the suburb, plus 3 kindergartens — nearest is Cranbrook Junior School (0.14 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 Rose Bay
Source: ABS Census 2021. We do not hold a suburb-level renter/owner split, families-with-children rate, born-overseas rate or dwelling-type breakdown for Rose Bay — the fields above are everything the census data behind this site currently carries.
Common questions about Rose Bay
What is the postcode for Rose Bay?
The postcode for Rose Bay, Sydney is 2029.
Is Rose Bay a good suburb?
There is no single invented "overall" score here -- Rose Bay is measured on 10 separate categories rather than blended into one number. Its strongest is schools nearby (osm), ranking #16 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.
Is Rose Bay safe?
It is around the middle of the pack for Sydney, scoring 49/100 for safety and ranking #217 of 422 suburbs. Recorded offences run at 36 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 Rose Bay good for families?
Mixed, and the weak spot is green space. Here are the family measures we can compute — safety 49/100, parks 33/100 and green space 22/100, with a median age of 40. It has 2 schools in the suburb, with the nearest primary 0.4 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 Rose Bay expensive to live in?
Median rent is $630 a week, and household income ranks #146 of 422 in Sydney. Against what the suburb offers, it scores 32/100 for value.
Does Rose Bay have good public transport?
It scores 64/100 for transit, #155 of 422 in Sydney. That measures train, tram and bus access within the suburb boundary, weighted by mode.
Are there parks in Rose Bay?
58% of the suburb is within walking distance of a park, at 0.9 hectares per 1,000 residents — 22/100 for green space.
Is Rose Bay good for running?
The nearest parkrun is Centennial parkrun, 4.4 km away, and GPS activity traces put it at 88/100 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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