Austral NSW 2179
Located in New South Wales, Austral sits 52 km from Sydney CBD, around 49 minutes by car. The suburb has 6,847 residents, a median age of 31, and a median household income of $112,736 per year. By household income, education, and employment patterns, it ranks in the top 40% nationally. The suburb more than doubled between 2016 and 2021. At the 2021 Census, households here paid a median rent of $520 per week and a median monthly mortgage of $2,535. Austral is characterised by high crime risk. Of 5 schools within the suburb boundary, 1 ranks above the state average, and walkability is moderate.
Is Austral a good suburb?
Austral scores a C (46/100) on SuburbScan's Liveability grade — strong on transit, prices, and community, weaker on safety.
Mixed results
5 schools · 1 above peer schools
Very walkable
Walkability 65/100 · 52 km · 49 min drive to Sydney
More affordable than most
Median $1.2M · More affordable than 79% of NSW
High crime risk
Fire 44/100 · Crime 85/100
Advantaged
SEIFA decile 8/10 · median age 31 · 6,847 residents
Liveability Rating
46 / 100 · Ranked #846 in NSWEach bar is Austral's rank among NSW suburbs, from 0 to 100 (higher is better).
No flood data is published for New South Wales — a blank here means we hold no data, not that there is no risk.
How do you rate the liveability in Austral?
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Our score
46 / 100
From schools, safety and socio-economic data — not opinion.
Residents say
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Median House Price
Public listings dataAustral's house market is moving higher: the median sale price reached $1.2 million, about 4% above where it sat a year earlier.
Houses
$1,199,000
3% below its 3 neighbours (median $1,230,000)
Based on 335 recorded sales in the last 24 months.
Typically sold in 36 days — median across 261 sales that recorded a listing period
By bedrooms
- 3 bed 33 sales $1.01M
- 4 bed 179 sales $1.15M
- 5 bed 108 sales $1.34M
- 6 bed 6 sales $1.41M
Land
$752,500
Based on 64 recorded sales in the last 24 months.
Typically sold in 34 days — median across 43 sales that recorded a listing period
Currently for Sale
Last 6 monthsHouses in Austral are currently listed at around $1.2 million on average. Based on 50 houses listed in the past six months.
$1.2M
50 houses listed in the last 6 months.
50 of the suburb's 1,992 dwellings (2.5%) were listed for sale in the last 6 months.
Rental Market
Advertised rents · last 6 monthsHouses in Austral rent for around $850 a week on average, based on 368 houses listed for rent in the past six months.
Houses
$850/wk
368 houses advertised for rent in the last 6 months.
Units
$440/wk
4 units advertised for rent in the last 6 months.
372 rentals advertised against an estimated 576 rented homes (64.6%) in the last 6 months.
Rent agreed on new leases
Jul–Sep 2026- 3-bed houses
- $740/wk
- 34 bonds
- +36% since 2021
Median weekly rent on bonds lodged for new tenancies across postcode 2179 (NSW publishes bonds by postcode, which can cover several suburbs). Change since 2021 compares the median of the first four quarters with the last four. Asking rents above come from advertised listings.
Rental affordability
June quarter 202599 Unaffordable · the average rental household in this region would pay about 30% of its income on the median rent in postcode 2179.
SGS Rental Affordability Index: a score of 100 means rent takes 30% of income, the usual housing-stress line; lower scores are less affordable. "Region" is the capital city or the rest of the state.
Gross rental yield
Indicative$850/week ($44,000 a year) on a $1.2 million median
Not enough unit sales and rentals in the window to calculate a yield.
Gross yield — before strata, rates, management, insurance and vacancy. Calculated from median advertised rents and median asking prices over the last 6 months. How we calculate.
Short-Stay Rentals
30 active Airbnb listings: 20 whole homes and 10 rooms. Whole homes are about 0.9% of the suburb's homes.
Airbnb only, as at Jun 2026; other platforms are not included. Active means reviewed in the past 12 months. The share is against private dwellings at the 2021 Census.
Is Austral safe? Crime statistics
2025Crime in Austral sits in the high band, with 582 incidents recorded in 2025 — up roughly 29% on the prior year.
582 offences
28.8% since 2024Crime Trend
Serious Road Crashes
2021–202521 crashes
where someone was killed or admitted to hospital, 1 of them fatal
Where they happened
Crashes are counted where they happened, so a main road through the suburb carries people passing through; this is not a measure of risk to residents. Roads are listed with 3 or more serious crashes.
Council Flood Studies
Liverpool City Council has published 4 flood studies on the NSW Flood Data Portal. The mapped flood areas are in those studies; SuburbScan does not hold them.
Schools
Five schools serve Austral, and results are mixed — some outperforming peer-suburb schools, some below. Al-Faisal College - Liverpool leads the pack.
- • 5,642 students across 5 schools (avg 1,128)
- • Sectors: 3 Independent, 1 Government, 1 Catholic
- • ICSEA 1032-1097, median 1059 (above the national baseline of 1000)
- • Largest: Al-Faisal College - Liverpool (1,573 students)
Primary
Combined
Universities nearby
1.8% of residents here are full-time university students aged 15–24.
Distance is measured to the suburb centre. A campus nearby does not by itself mean a student rental market — most suburbs within a few kilometres of one have a student share close to the national norm, and the figure above is what tells them apart.
Walkability
Austral is somewhat walkable on foot — at 65/100, a short cluster of errands work on foot but most trips still benefit from a car.
Public transport
Weekday and weekend service frequency across every stop inside Austral.
- Peak (7-9am + 5-7pm)
- 82.5 arrivals/hr
- Off-peak weekday
- 57.2 arrivals/hr
- Saturday
- 33.7 arrivals/hr
- Median peak wait
- 1 min
- Span of service
- 17.2 hours
Scheduled service only, based on the 21 October 2026 timetable. Reliability (delays, cancellations) not measured.
NBN connectivity
The internet access technology available across NBN premises in Austral.
- Full-fibre (FTTP) share
- 95%
- Premises covered
- 7,736
NBN Co fixed-line and fixed-wireless premises, as at 30 December 2025. Higher-quality technologies (full fibre) score above copper, wireless, and satellite. Actual speeds depend on your plan.
Amenities
Liverpool: council population
The three add up to the change above. These are council-wide figures from the ABS, not figures for this suburb alone — this suburb's own population is in the census section above.
Socio-economic profile
The ABS scores 10 small areas inside this suburb and averages them into the single decile above. They fall into 4 different deciles — a wide range, so parts of this suburb rank well above the average and parts well below it.
Austral is home to about 6,800 residents, and skews young, with a median age of 31 against the national 38. Median household income runs at $113,000 a year, with unemployment at 4.3%.
2021 Census · change since 2016
Population
6,847
Median Age
31
Median Household Income
$112,736/yr
Census Median Rent
$520/wk
Census Median Mortgage
$2,535/mo
Avg Household Size
3.1
Median Personal Income
$48,360/yr
Unemployment Rate
4.3%
Unoccupied Dwellings
7.1%
Total Dwellings
1,992
Owner-Occupier Rate
71.1%
Houses
88.3%
Rental Stress
24.0%
Mortgage Stress
27.0%
Work From Home
39.9%
Dwelling Types
Property Ownership
Demographics
- Born in Australia
- 50.3%
- English Spoken at Home
- 37.8%
- Employment Rate
- 57.8%
- Completed Year 12
- 43.8%
Occupations
Religion
Country of Birth (overseas)
Largest overseas birthplaces, as a share of all residents.
When They Arrived
Share of all residents by the year they arrived in Australia. Periods cover different numbers of years, so compare the shape rather than the bar widths.
444 residents (6.5%) arrived since 2016. Australia’s borders were closed to most arrivals from March 2020, so the last two years of that period are much smaller than the ones before them — nationally 260,799 people arrived in 2019 against 28,521 in 2021.
Where New Residents Came From
Where residents aged five and over lived five years before the 2021 Census, for those who lived somewhere else.
Top places newcomers came from, as a share of the 6,100 residents aged five and over. Areas are ABS statistical regions. Small counts are approximate: the ABS adjusts every figure slightly to protect privacy.
Languages Spoken at Home
Top languages other than English, as a share of all residents.
Age Distribution
Family & Household Composition
Commute to Work
12% of employed residents work in a capital's city centre (349 of 2,950).
City centre: the ABS area around each capital's CBD, such as Sydney Inner City or Perth City (which takes in Subiaco and Leederville). 2021 Census place of work.
Local Jobs
People who work in this suburb against employed people who live here, 2021 Census.
About 1,733 people work here; 2,950 employed residents live here.
Mostly a place people commute from: 0.6 jobs per working resident. At least 41% of employed residents must work outside the suburb.
Counts are by place of work and place of usual residence. The ABS counts jobs in zones; where a zone spans several places, its jobs are shared out by land use. The ABS also adjusts every figure slightly to protect privacy.
Education
Cars per Dwelling
Council Rates
Households face an average residential rates bill of $1,322 a year through Liverpool based on 2024 figures.
How this land is zoned
- Residential 53%
- Environmental 10%
- Infrastructure and transport 10%
- Parks and recreation 8%
- Rural and farming 3%
- Industrial 2%
- Commercial 1%
- Not zoned 13%
Planning zones cover 87% of the suburb's area. The rest is unzoned land such as water or road reserve.
Zoning sets what may be built, not what is there today. A single address can sit in a different zone to the suburb around it — the property page shows the zone for one address.
Building Approvals: Liverpool
In the year to August 2026, 2,229 new dwellings were approved across Liverpool. That mix is 1,634 houses and 595 units. Approvals are up 27.7% on the same period a year earlier.
Aboriginal Land Council
Aboriginal land in this area is administered by the Gandangara Local Aboriginal Land Council.
Local Aboriginal Land Councils are statutory bodies under the Aboriginal Land Rights Act 1983, responsible for land claims and land management for their members. Their boundaries are administrative and are not a statement of whose Country this is. NSW does not publish a register of Aboriginal parties by area — they are registered for each project.
Air Quality
MODERATEPM2.5 averaged 6.7 µg/m³ in 2025 — below Australia's NEPM annual standard (8 µg/m³), slightly above the stricter WHO guideline (5 µg/m³).
PM10 averaged 16.9 µg/m³ · NO₂ averaged 0.37 pphm. Days over the limit in 2025: PM10 2 · NO₂ 0 · ozone 0.
From the Bringelly monitoring station, 4.4 km away.
Climate & Setting
from Prospect Reservoir, 15.4 kmHigh rainfall — hot summers, mild winters.
- Elevation
- 68 m
- above sea level, at the suburb centre
- Distance to the ocean
- 30.8 km
- Near high-voltage lines
- 7.2% of addresses
- 691 within 100 m of an overhead line of 110 kV or more
- Annual rainfall
- 931 mm
- 89 rainy days
- Summer max (Jan)
- 28.9°C
- 15 days ≥ 35°C
- Winter min (Jul)
- 6.9°C
- 0 frost days ≤ 0°C
Elevation is the ground at the suburb centre, from Geoscience Australia's National Digital Elevation Model. Approximate — it reads high in dense built-up areas. It is a measure of height above sea level and not an indicator of flood risk, which depends on height above nearby waterways.
EV adoption
In postcode 2179, 269 of 17,018 registered light vehicles are battery-electric on 31 January 2025. A further 6.1% (1,043 vehicles) are hybrid or plug-in hybrid, taking the non-petrol, non-diesel share to 7.7%.
Rooftop solar
In postcode 2179, 5,535 rooftop-solar systems totalling 50.1 MW have been installed since 2001. 884 went up in the last year.
2026 covers part of the year only, to 2026-07.
First Home Owner Grant
FY2026-27$10,000 for new homes priced up to $600,000.
Off-the-plan or contracted-build value cap is $750,000 (vs $600,000 for completed new homes). Stamp duty concessions are a separate scheme (First Home Buyers Assistance).
Mortgage repayments
9 mortgage brokers are registered in this suburb, 22 across postcode 2179.
Transfer duty at the owner-occupier rate, and it excludes first home buyer concessions — those can cut it substantially or remove it entirely. Excludes legal, inspection and lender fees. Check with Revenue NSW
The First Home Owner Grant applies to newly built homes only, so it isn't available on an established purchase. A first home buyer building or buying new under $600,000 may qualify for $10,000 — see what qualifies with Revenue NSW.
At $1,199,000 this is $599,000 above the $600,000 First Home Owner Grant cap. A first home buyer may qualify for $10,000 on a newly built home — check eligibility with Revenue NSW.
A deposit under 20% usually attracts Lenders Mortgage Insurance, which this doesn't include.
Principal and interest over 30 years, fixed rate. Excludes fees, offset, redraw and LMI. Default rate is the median comparison rate across 1788 advertised products as at 2026-10-27 — indicative only, and not an offer. Your rate depends on the lender, your deposit and your circumstances. Not financial advice.
Federal Electorate
Currently held by Anne Maree Stanley Australian Labor Party
| Year | Winner | 2PP ALP | 2PP LNP | Swing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Anne Maree Stanley | 56.8% | 43.2% | +1.4 |
| 2022 | Anne Maree Stanley | 55.8% | 44.2% | -0.3 |
| 2019 | Anne Maree Stanley | 55.5% | 44.5% | +2.7 |
Results are per division — federal electoral boundaries are redrawn periodically, so the history reflects this division's past, not necessarily the exact suburb's voters across time.
State Electorate
Currently held by Nathan Hagarty Labor
Next state election: 13 March 2027.
| Year | Winner | Won with |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Nathan Hagarty ALP | 58.9% |
Results are per district. Districts were last redrawn in 2021, so results from before then describe the district of that name, not necessarily this suburb's voters. Results: © State of New South Wales through the NSW Electoral Commission, CC BY 4.0, adapted.
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- Nearest and zoned schools, with the walk from that door
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Common questions about Austral
Is Austral a safe place to live?
Recorded crime in Austral is high (85/100, ranked against other NSW suburbs on offences per resident). Offences against shops, venues and visitors are divided by the people who live here, so suburbs with large daytime or visitor populations rank higher than living there may feel.
What natural hazards affect Austral?
Austral has a moderate recorded bushfire history (44/100, ranked against every Australian suburb with any fire history). These are suburb-wide figures; check the address, as flood and bushfire exposure change street by street.
Is Austral a good place to live?
Austral has a SuburbScan Liveability grade of C (46/100), ranked against other NSW suburbs on school quality (25%), safety (25%), SEIFA socio-economic advantage (25%), walkability (15%) and CBD access (10%). Whether it suits you depends on what you weigh — each of those is on this page.
What is the population of Austral?
Austral, NSW had a population of 6,847 at the 2021 Australian Bureau of Statistics census.
What is the postcode for Austral, NSW?
The postcode for Austral, NSW is 2179.
How far is Austral from Sydney?
Austral is 52 km from Sydney CBD by road, about 49 minutes by car in normal traffic. Distance is the most-direct driving route, not straight-line.
What is the median household income in Austral?
At the 2021 ABS Census, median household income in Austral was $112,736 a year. It is the most recent suburb-level income figure until 2026 Census results are released in 2027.
What is the median weekly rent in Austral?
The median advertised rent in Austral is $850 a week for houses (368 listings) and $440 a week for units (4 listings), from rental listings over the last six months.
What is the median age in Austral?
The median age of residents in Austral was 31 at the 2021 ABS Census.
Is Austral at risk of bushfire?
Austral has a moderate recorded bushfire history (44/100). The score comes from Geoscience Australia's historical bushfire boundaries, with planned burns excluded: the area of recorded fires touching the suburb relative to its size, ranked against every Australian suburb with any fire history. It records where fire has burned, not a bushfire-prone land designation, which your council's planning scheme sets.
How are the schools in Austral?
There are 5 schools inside the Austral boundary: 1 above, 3 at, and 1 below similar schools on NAPLAN, compared with same-state, same-type schools of similar socio-educational advantage (ICSEA).
Is Austral walkable?
Austral scores 65/100 on the SuburbScan Walkability Score, making it somewhat walkable. The score is a weighted average of public transport, schools, parks, supermarkets, GPs, pharmacies, childcare, and hospitals within walking distance.
What is the air quality in Austral?
The nearest government air-quality monitoring station to Austral (Bringelly) recorded a 2025 annual mean PM2.5 of 6.7 µg/m³ and PM10 of 16.9 µg/m³. That puts Austral below the Australian NEPM annual standard of 8 µg/m³ but above the stricter WHO guideline of 5 µg/m³.
What is the weather like in Austral?
At the nearest Bureau of Meteorology station to Austral, Prospect Reservoir (15.4 km away), summer days average 28.9°C, winter nights 6.9°C, 931 mm of rain a year over 89 rainy days, and 15 days a year above 35°C over 2006-2026.
Is the First Home Owner Grant available in Austral?
First-home buyers in NSW may be eligible for $10,000 towards new homes with a purchase price up to $600,000. The grant is administered by Revenue NSW; confirm current eligibility before signing a contract — state rules and amounts can change.
What council does Austral belong to?
Austral sits within the Liverpool local government area. Council rates, planning approvals, and waste collection fall under this LGA.
How much are council rates in Austral?
The average residential rates bill through Liverpool is $1,322 a year (2024). Every suburb in this LGA shares the same schedule — individual bills vary with land value.
How much is being built near Austral?
Across Liverpool, 2,229 new residential dwellings were approved in the year to August 2026 (source: ABS Building Approvals). That's up 27.7% on the same period a year earlier. These are LGA-level totals — every suburb in the council shares the same figure.
Which federal electorate is Austral in?
Austral sits within the federal Division of Werriwa, currently held by Anne Maree Stanley (Australian Labor Party).
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Data freshness
- Census · 2021
- Median sale prices · Oct 2026
- For-sale & rental market · Oct 2026
- Council rates · FY 2024–25
- Building approvals · Aug 2026
- Schools · 2025
- Public transport · Oct 2026
- NBN connectivity · Dec 2025
- Crime · 2025
- Road crashes · 2021–2025
- Air quality · 2025
- Climate · 2006–2026
- Socio-economic (SEIFA) · 2021
- EV adoption · Jan 2025
- First Home Owner Grant · Sep 2026
- Federal electorate · 2025
- Short-stay rentals · Jun 2026
- State electorate · 2023
- Amenities · Sep 2026
- Health & emergency facilities · Sep 2026
- Industrial emissions (NPI) · 2024/2025
- Coastal erosion · 1988–2025
- Aircraft noise · 2024
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