Gunning NSW 2581
Located in New South Wales, Gunning sits 242 km from Sydney CBD, around 2 hours 40 minutes by car. The locality has 820 residents, a median age of 38, and a median household income of $106,548 per year. On socioeconomic measures it sits in the top 40% nationally. Population grew 24.4% from 2016 to 2021. The 2021 Census recorded a median rent of $350 per week and a median monthly mortgage of $1,733. 1 school sits within the locality boundary, and walkability is moderate.
Is Gunning a good place to live?
Gunning scores a B (52/100) on SuburbScan's Liveability grade — strong on prices and community.
Mixed results
1 school
Some car dependence
Walkability 54/100 · 242.3 km · 159 min drive to Sydney
More affordable than most
Median $680K · More affordable than 86% of NSW
Moderate crime risk
Fire 19/100 · Crime 59/100
Advantaged
SEIFA decile 8/10 · median age 38 · 820 residents
Liveability Rating
52 / 100 · Ranked #703 in NSWEach bar is Gunning's rank among NSW suburbs, from 0 to 100 (higher is better). Scored on 4 of 5 factors: no school data, so the other factors carry its weight.
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 Gunning?
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Our score
52 / 100
From schools, safety and socio-economic data — not opinion.
Residents say
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Median House Price
Public listings dataGunning's house market is moving lower: the median sale price reached $680,000, roughly 12% below where it sat a year earlier.
Houses
$680,000
Based on 27 recorded sales in the last 24 months.
Typically sold in 88 days — median across 8 sales that recorded a listing period
By bedrooms
- 3 bed 12 sales $670K
- 4 bed 10 sales $770K
Land
$287,500
Based on 12 recorded sales in the last 24 months.
Typically sold in 26 days — median across 3 sales that recorded a listing period
Currently for Sale
Last 6 monthsHouses in Gunning are currently listed at around $634,000 on average. Based on 8 houses listed in the past six months.
$634K
8 houses listed in the last 6 months.
9 of the suburb's 288 dwellings (3.1%) were listed for sale in the last 6 months.
Rental Market
Advertised rents · last 6 monthsHouses in Gunning rent for around $720 a week on average, based on 3 houses listed for rent in the past six months.
$720/wk
3 houses advertised for rent in the last 6 months.
Gross rental yield
Indicative$720/week ($37,000 a year) on a $634,000 median
Based on a small sample (3 listings) — indicative only.
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.
Is Gunning safe? Crime statistics
2025Crime in Gunning sits in the moderate band, with 38 incidents recorded in 2025 — up roughly 19% on the prior year.
38 offences
18.8% since 2024Crime Trend
Serious Road Crashes
2021–20254 crashes
where someone was killed or admitted to hospital, 2 of them fatal
Where they happened
Crashes are counted where they happened, so a main road through the locality 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
Upper Lachlan Shire 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
One school serve Gunning, and performance is broadly on par with peer-suburb schools.
- • 125 students in one school (avg 125)
Primary
Walkability
Gunning is somewhat walkable on foot — at 54/100, 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 Gunning.
- Peak (7-9am + 5-7pm)
- 4.5 arrivals/hr
- Off-peak weekday
- 2.2 arrivals/hr
- Saturday
- 0.3 arrivals/hr
- Median peak wait
- 2 min
- Span of service
- 21.1 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 Gunning.
- Full-fibre (FTTP) share
- 0%
- Premises covered
- 74
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
Upper Lachlan: council population
The three add up to the change above. These are council-wide figures from the ABS, not figures for this locality alone — this locality's own population is in the census section above.
Socio-economic profile
Gunning is home to 820 residents, with a median age of 38, broadly in line with the national figure. Median household income runs at $107,000 a year, with unemployment at 1.8%.
2021 Census · change since 2016
Population
820
Median Age
38
Median Household Income
$106,548/yr
Census Median Rent
$350/wk
Census Median Mortgage
$1,733/mo
Avg Household Size
2.7
Median Personal Income
$51,220/yr
Unemployment Rate
1.8%
Unoccupied Dwellings
15.6%
Total Dwellings
288
Owner-Occupier Rate
84.8%
Houses
97.2%
Rental Stress
17.1%
Mortgage Stress
19.5%
Work From Home
19.5%
Dwelling Types
Property Ownership
Demographics
- Born in Australia
- 84.0%
- English Spoken at Home
- 88.9%
- Employment Rate
- 62%
- Completed Year 12
- 36.6%
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.
4 residents (0.5%) 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.
19.4% of residents (145) lived in a capital city five years earlier, most of them in Canberra (89).
Top places newcomers came from, as a share of the 747 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
14% of employed residents work in a capital's city centre (54 of 383).
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 locality against employed people who live here, 2021 Census.
About 195 people work here; 383 employed residents live here.
Mostly a place people commute from: 0.5 jobs per working resident. At least 43% of employed residents must work outside the locality.
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 $636 a year through Upper Lachlan based on 2024 figures.
How this land is zoned
- Rural and farming 98%
- Infrastructure and transport 1%
Zoning sets what may be built, not what is there today. A single address can sit in a different zone to the locality around it — the property page shows the zone for one address.
Building Approvals: Upper Lachlan
In the year to August 2026, 44 new dwellings were approved across Upper Lachlan. That mix is 42 houses and 2 units. Approvals are up 175.0% on the same period a year earlier.
Aboriginal Land Council
Aboriginal land in this area is administered by the Onerwal 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.
Climate & Setting
from Goulburn TAFE, 40.2 kmModerate rainfall — warm summers, cold winters with occasional frost.
- Elevation
- 562 m
- above sea level, at the locality centre
- Near high-voltage lines
- 1.8% of addresses
- 11 within 100 m of an overhead line of 110 kV or more
- Annual rainfall
- 658 mm
- 80 rainy days
- Summer max (Jan)
- 27.1°C
- 7 days ≥ 35°C
- Winter min (Jul)
- 2.7°C
- 28 frost days ≤ 0°C
Elevation is the ground at the locality 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 2581, 25 of 2,480 registered light vehicles are battery-electric on 31 January 2025. A further 2.1% (53 vehicles) are hybrid or plug-in hybrid, taking the non-petrol, non-diesel share to 3.1%.
Rooftop solar
In postcode 2581, 654 rooftop-solar systems totalling 4.7 MW have been installed since 2001, against 980 dwellings recorded in the 2021 Census. 51 went up in the last year.
Counts every system certified since 2001, so a roof re-fitted with a newer system is counted twice, and small commercial systems are included alongside houses — useful for comparing postcodes, not an estimate of how many homes have working panels today.
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
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 $680,000 this is $80,000 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 Michael Mccormack The Nationals
| Year | Winner | 2PP ALP | 2PP LNP | Swing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Michael Mccormack | 37.4% | 62.6% | -2.9 |
| 2022 | Michael Mccormack | 35.1% | 64.8% | -4.6 |
| 2019 | Michael Mccormack | 30.5% | 69.5% | +3.0 |
Results are per division — federal electoral boundaries are redrawn periodically, so the history reflects this division's past, not necessarily the exact locality's voters across time.
State Electorate
Currently held by Wendy Tuckerman Liberal
Next state election: 13 March 2027.
| Year | Winner | Won with |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Wendy Tuckerman LP | 51.3% |
| 2019 | Wendy Tuckerman LP | 53.5% |
| 2015 | Pru Goward LP | 56.6% |
Results are per district. Districts were last redrawn in 2021, so results from before then describe the district of that name, not necessarily this locality's voters. Results: © State of New South Wales through the NSW Electoral Commission, CC BY 4.0, adapted.
Looking at a specific address in Gunning?
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- The census for a few hundred neighbours, not all 820 residents
- Nearest and zoned schools, with the walk from that door
- Flood, bushfire and noise mapping, where the state publishes it
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Common questions about Gunning
Is Gunning a safe place to live?
Recorded crime in Gunning is moderate (59/100, ranked against other NSW suburbs on offences per resident).
What natural hazards affect Gunning?
Gunning has a low recorded bushfire history (19/100, ranked against every Australian suburb with any fire history). These are locality-wide figures; check the address, as flood and bushfire exposure change street by street.
Is Gunning a good place to live?
Gunning has a SuburbScan Liveability grade of B (52/100), 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 Gunning?
Gunning, NSW had a population of 820 at the 2021 Australian Bureau of Statistics census.
What is the postcode for Gunning, NSW?
The postcode for Gunning, NSW is 2581.
How far is Gunning from Sydney?
Gunning is 242 km from Sydney CBD by road, about 159 minutes by car in normal traffic. Distance is the most-direct driving route, not straight-line.
What is the median household income in Gunning?
At the 2021 ABS Census, median household income in Gunning was $106,548 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 Gunning?
The median advertised rent in Gunning is $720 a week for houses (3 listings), from rental listings over the last six months.
What is the median age in Gunning?
The median age of residents in Gunning was 38 at the 2021 ABS Census.
Is Gunning at risk of bushfire?
Gunning has a low recorded bushfire history (19/100). The score comes from Geoscience Australia's historical bushfire boundaries, with planned burns excluded: the area of recorded fires touching the locality 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 Gunning?
There is 1 school inside the Gunning boundary: 1 at similar schools on NAPLAN, compared with same-state, same-type schools of similar socio-educational advantage (ICSEA).
Is Gunning walkable?
Gunning scores 54/100 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 weather like in Gunning?
At the nearest Bureau of Meteorology station to Gunning, Goulburn TAFE (40.2 km away), summer days average 27.1°C, winter nights 2.7°C, 658 mm of rain a year over 80 rainy days, and 7 days a year above 35°C over 2006-2026.
Is the First Home Owner Grant available in Gunning?
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 Gunning belong to?
Gunning sits within the Upper Lachlan local government area. Council rates, planning approvals, and waste collection fall under this LGA.
How much are council rates in Gunning?
The average residential rates bill through Upper Lachlan is $636 a year (2024). Every suburb in this LGA shares the same schedule — individual bills vary with land value.
How much is being built near Gunning?
Across Upper Lachlan, 44 new residential dwellings were approved in the year to August 2026 (source: ABS Building Approvals). That's up 175.0% 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 Gunning in?
Gunning sits within the federal Division of Riverina, currently held by Michael Mccormack (The Nationals).
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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
- Climate · 2006–2026
- Socio-economic (SEIFA) · 2021
- EV adoption · Jan 2025
- First Home Owner Grant · Sep 2026
- Federal electorate · 2025
- 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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