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Ranked #21 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 | 3,283 |
| Area | 3.52 km² |
| Postcode | 2075 |
| Median household income | $3,306/wk |
| Median rent | $950/wk |
| Median house price (Jan–Mar 2026) | $3,000,000 (45 sales this quarter; down 7.7% YoY, down 8.5% QoQ; postcode 2075, not suburb-level) |
| Median unit price (Jan–Mar 2026) | $1,200,000 (low sales volume; up 2.9% YoY, up 10.6% QoQ; postcode 2075, not suburb-level) |
| Crime rate | 11.6 incidents per 1,000 people — 58% of offences are against property, 42% against the person |
| Parks | 3 (21.35 ha per 1,000 people) |
| Schools (government data) | 0 — 0 primary, 0 secondary; nearest primary 1.67 km, secondary 1.68 km |
| Families score | 47/100 (safety 30 · schools 25 · parks per 1,000 15 · kinders 10 · price-for-size 10 · transit 10) |
| Within 400m of a park | 78.1% of the suburb |
| Cafés | 0 |
| Gyms & sport venues | 18 |
| Public transport stops | 21 (21 bus stops) |
| Nearest parkrun | Wildflower parkrun (1.15 km) |
| Schools nearby (OSM, not catchment zoning) | 0 schools in the suburb — nearest is Knox Grammar Playing Fields (1.69 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 St Ives Chase — the fields above are everything the census data behind this site currently carries.
The postcode for St Ives Chase, Sydney is 2075.
There is no single invented "overall" score here -- St Ives Chase is measured on 10 separate categories rather than blended into one number. Its strongest is safety, ranking #21 of 422 Sydney suburbs, and it ranks in the top half of Sydney for 5 of the 10 categories measured here. The full breakdown is above.
Yes — it is one of the safer parts of Sydney, scoring 95/100 for safety and ranking #21 of 422 suburbs. Recorded offences run at 12 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.
Mixed, and the weak spot is parks. Here are the family measures we can compute — safety 95/100, parks 14/100 and green space 63/100, with a median age of 42. It has 0 schools in the suburb, with the nearest primary 1.7 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 $3,000,000 in Jan–Mar 2026 (NSW DCJ Rent and Sales Report, postcode-level), down 7.7% YoY, down 8.5% QoQ. Median rent is $950 a week, and household income ranks #29 of 422 in Sydney. Against what the suburb offers, it scores 8/100 for value.
It scores 7/100 for transit, #394 of 422 in Sydney. That measures train, tram and bus access within the suburb boundary, weighted by mode.
78% of the suburb is within walking distance of a park, at 21.4 hectares per 1,000 residents — 63/100 for green space.
The nearest parkrun is Wildflower parkrun, 1.1 km away, and GPS activity traces put it at 56/100 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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