Heathcote is a suburb in New South Wales, 49 km from Sydney CBD, around 53 minutes by car. Population is 6,148; the median age is 43 and the median household income is $116,480 per year. By household income, education, and employment patterns, it ranks in the top 20% nationally. At the 2021 Census, households here paid a median rent of $520 per week and a median monthly mortgage of $2,553. Heathcote is characterised by high bushfire risk. 1 school sits within the suburb boundary, and walkability is low.
Is Heathcote a good suburb?
Heathcote scores a C (39/100) on SuburbScan's Liveability grade — strong on community, weaker on transit and safety.
Mixed results
1 school
Car-dependent
Walkability 0/100 · 49.2 km · 53 min drive to Sydney
Around the state median
Median $1.44M
High bushfire risk
Fire 93/100 · Crime 35/100
Very advantaged
SEIFA decile 9/10 · median age 43 · 6,148 residents
Liveability Rating
39 / 100 · Ranked #1043 in NSWEach bar is Heathcote'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 Heathcote?
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Our score
39 / 100
From schools, safety and socio-economic data — not opinion.
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Median House Price
Public listings dataHeathcote's house market is moving lower: the median sale price reached $1.44 million, 0.1% below where it sat a year earlier.
Houses
$1,444,500
5% below its 3 neighbours (median $1,525,000)
Based on 96 recorded sales in the last 24 months.
Typically sold in 17 days — median across 39 sales that recorded a listing period
By bedrooms
- 3 bed 38 sales $1.38M
- 4 bed 39 sales $1.54M
- 5 bed 9 sales $1.76M
Units
$895,000
Based on 25 recorded sales in the last 24 months.
Typically sold in 20 days — median across 7 sales that recorded a listing period
By bedrooms
- 2 bed 16 sales $839K
- 3 bed 7 sales $1.07M
Currently for Sale
Last 6 monthsHouses in Heathcote are currently listed at around $1.32 million on average. Based on 18 houses listed in the past six months.
$1.32M
18 houses listed in the last 6 months.
18 of the suburb's 2,154 dwellings (0.8%) were listed for sale in the last 6 months.
Rental Market
Advertised rents · last 6 monthsHouses in Heathcote rent for around $895 a week on average, based on 7 houses listed for rent in the past six months.
$895/wk
7 houses advertised for rent in the last 6 months.
9 rentals advertised against an estimated 258 rented homes (3.5%) in the last 6 months.
Rent agreed on new leases
Jul–Sep 2026- 3-bed houses
- $910/wk
- 14 bonds
- +30% since 2021
- 2-bed units
- $675/wk
- 16 bonds
- +53% since 2021
Median weekly rent on bonds lodged for new tenancies across postcode 2233 (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 202595 Unaffordable · the average rental household in this region would pay about 32% of its income on the median rent in postcode 2233.
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$895/week ($47,000 a year) on a $1.32 million median
Based on a small sample (7 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.
Short-Stay Rentals
3 active Airbnb listings: 2 whole homes and 1 room. Whole homes are about 0.1% 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 Heathcote safe? Crime statistics
2025Crime in Heathcote sits in the low band, with 149 incidents recorded in 2025 — down about 10% on the prior year.
149 offences
9.7% since 2024Crime Trend
Serious Road Crashes
2021–202513 crashes
where someone was killed or admitted to hospital
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
Sutherland Shire Council has published 6 flood studies on the NSW Flood Data Portal. The mapped flood areas are in those studies; SuburbScan does not hold them.
Schools
One school serves Heathcote, but none have published comparable ratings yet.
- • 1,012 students across 3 schools (avg 337)
- • ICSEA 1028-1072, median 1056 (above the national baseline of 1000)
- • Largest: Heathcote High School (633 students)
Primary
Secondary
Walkability
Heathcote is very car-dependent on foot — at 0/100, nearly all errands require a car.
We hold no public transport timetable data for this area, so public transport is not rated here and the score is spread across the remaining components. It is not counted as zero.
Public transport
Weekday and weekend service frequency across every stop inside Heathcote.
- Peak (7-9am + 5-7pm)
- 22.0 arrivals/hr
- Off-peak weekday
- 23.0 arrivals/hr
- Saturday
- 10.0 arrivals/hr
- Median peak wait
- 1 min
- Span of service
- 21.8 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 Heathcote.
- Full-fibre (FTTP) share
- 3%
- Premises covered
- 2,597
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
Sutherland: 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 16 small areas inside this suburb and averages them into the single decile above. They fall into 6 different deciles — a wide range, so parts of this suburb rank well above the average and parts well below it.
Heathcote is home to about 6,100 residents, with a median age of 43, a touch above the national 38. Median household income runs at $116,000 a year, with unemployment at 2.6%.
2021 Census · change since 2016
Population
6,148
Median Age
43
Median Household Income
$116,480/yr
Census Median Rent
$520/wk
Census Median Mortgage
$2,553/mo
Avg Household Size
2.7
Median Personal Income
$49,764/yr
Unemployment Rate
2.6%
Unoccupied Dwellings
3.7%
Total Dwellings
2,154
Owner-Occupier Rate
88.0%
Houses
74.3%
Rental Stress
23.2%
Mortgage Stress
26.3%
Work From Home
40.2%
Dwelling Types
Property Ownership
Demographics
- Born in Australia
- 86.0%
- English Spoken at Home
- 90.6%
- Employment Rate
- 61.1%
- Completed Year 12
- 42.3%
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.
49 residents (0.8%) 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 5,804 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 (414 of 3,052).
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 1,349 people work here; 3,052 employed residents live here.
Mostly a place people commute from: 0.4 jobs per working resident. At least 56% 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 $1,552 a year through Sutherland based on 2024 figures.
How this land is zoned
- Environmental 86%
- Infrastructure and transport 6%
- Parks and recreation 5%
- Residential 2%
- Zones under 1% 1%
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: Sutherland
In the year to August 2026, 1,449 new dwellings were approved across Sutherland. That mix is 213 houses and 1,236 units. Approvals are up 117.3% on the same period a year earlier.
Aboriginal Land Council
Aboriginal land in this area is administered by the Tharawal 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 5.8 µg/m³ in 2025 — below Australia's NEPM annual standard (8 µg/m³), slightly above the stricter WHO guideline (5 µg/m³).
PM10 averaged 14.8 µg/m³ · NO₂ averaged 0.97 pphm. Days over the limit in 2025: PM10 0 · NO₂ 0 · ozone 1.
From the Campbelltown West monitoring station, 17.5 km away.
Climate & Setting
from Lucas Heights (Ansto), 5.9 kmHigh rainfall.
- Elevation
- 144 m
- above sea level, at the suburb centre
- Distance to the ocean
- 10.8 km
- Near high-voltage lines
- 3.3% of addresses
- 99 within 100 m of an overhead line of 110 kV or more
- Annual rainfall
- 1,038 mm
- 89 rainy days
- Summer max (Jan)
- —
- Winter min (Jul)
- —
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.
Industrial Emissions Nearby
1 facility within 5 km- 4.2 kmWater SupplyTop reported: Chlorine & compounds · Fluoride compounds · Ammonia (total)
EV adoption
In postcode 2233, 206 of 21,133 registered light vehicles are battery-electric on 31 January 2025. A further 3.0% (635 vehicles) are hybrid or plug-in hybrid, taking the non-petrol, non-diesel share to 4.0%.
Rooftop solar
In postcode 2233, 3,915 rooftop-solar systems totalling 26.9 MW have been installed since 2001, against 10,490 dwellings recorded in the 2021 Census. 279 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
15 mortgage brokers are registered in postcode 2233.
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 $1,444,500 this is $844,500 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 David Moncrieff Australian Labor Party
| Year | Winner | 2PP ALP | 2PP LNP | Swing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | David Moncrieff | 53.1% | 46.9% | +6.5 |
| 2022 | Jenny Ware | 43.0% | 57.0% | -2.8 |
| 2019 | Craig Kelly | 40.1% | 59.9% | +0.5 |
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 Maryanne Stuart Labor
Next state election: 13 March 2027.
| Year | Winner | Won with |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Maryanne Stuart ALP | 60.0% |
| 2019 | Lee Evans LP | 55.0% |
| 2015 | Lee Evans LP | 57.6% |
Results are per district. Districts were last redrawn in 2021, so results from before then describe the district of that name, not necessarily this 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 Heathcote
Is Heathcote a safe place to live?
Recorded crime in Heathcote is low (35/100, ranked against other NSW suburbs on offences per resident).
What natural hazards affect Heathcote?
Heathcote has a high recorded bushfire history (93/100, 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 Heathcote a good place to live?
Heathcote has a SuburbScan Liveability grade of C (39/100), 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 Heathcote?
Heathcote, NSW had a population of 6,148 at the 2021 Australian Bureau of Statistics census.
What is the postcode for Heathcote, NSW?
The postcode for Heathcote, NSW is 2233.
How far is Heathcote from Sydney?
Heathcote is 49 km from Sydney CBD by road, about 53 minutes by car in normal traffic. Distance is the most-direct driving route, not straight-line.
What is the median household income in Heathcote?
At the 2021 ABS Census, median household income in Heathcote was $116,480 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 Heathcote?
The median advertised rent in Heathcote is $895 a week for houses (7 listings), from rental listings over the last six months.
What is the median age in Heathcote?
The median age of residents in Heathcote was 43 at the 2021 ABS Census.
Is Heathcote at risk of bushfire?
Heathcote has a high recorded bushfire history (93/100). 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 Heathcote?
There is 1 school inside the Heathcote boundary, none of which has enough NAPLAN and ICSEA data for a quality band.
What is the air quality in Heathcote?
The nearest government air-quality monitoring station to Heathcote (Campbelltown West) recorded a 2025 annual mean PM2.5 of 5.8 µg/m³ and PM10 of 14.8 µg/m³. That puts Heathcote 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 Heathcote?
At the nearest Bureau of Meteorology station to Heathcote, Lucas Heights (Ansto) (5.9 km away), 1,038 mm of rain a year over 89 rainy days over 2006-2026.
Is the First Home Owner Grant available in Heathcote?
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 Heathcote belong to?
Heathcote sits within the Sutherland local government area. Council rates, planning approvals, and waste collection fall under this LGA.
How much are council rates in Heathcote?
The average residential rates bill through Sutherland is $1,552 a year (2024). Every suburb in this LGA shares the same schedule — individual bills vary with land value.
How much is being built near Heathcote?
Across Sutherland, 1,449 new residential dwellings were approved in the year to August 2026 (source: ABS Building Approvals). That's up 117.3% 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 Heathcote in?
Heathcote sits within the federal Division of Hughes, currently held by David Moncrieff (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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