Luddenham is a suburb in New South Wales, 57 km from Sydney CBD, around 52 minutes by car. Population is 1,927; the median age is 37 and the median household income is $154,336 per year. On socioeconomic measures it sits in the top 20% nationally. Population grew 5.4% from 2016 to 2021. The 2021 Census recorded a median rent of $480 per week and a median monthly mortgage of $3,000. The area shows high aircraft noise risk and high crime risk. 2 schools sit within the suburb boundary, and walkability is low.
Is Luddenham a good suburb?
Luddenham scores a C (41/100) on SuburbScan's Liveability grade — strong on community, weaker on transit, prices, and safety.
Mixed results
2 schools
Car-dependent
Walkability 5/100 · 57 km · 52 min drive to Sydney
Above the state median
Median $2.76M · Less affordable than 88% of NSW
High crime risk
Fire 66/100 · Crime 71/100
Very advantaged
SEIFA decile 10/10 · median age 37 · 1,927 residents
Liveability Rating
41 / 100 · Ranked #992 in NSWEach bar is Luddenham'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.
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Our score
41 / 100
From schools, safety and socio-economic data — not opinion.
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Median House Price
Public listings dataLuddenham's house market is moving lower: the median sale price reached $2.76 million, roughly 24% below where it sat a year earlier.
Houses
$2,756,444
83% above its 5 neighbours (median $1,505,000)
Based on 40 recorded sales in the last 24 months.
Typically sold in 52 days — median across 17 sales that recorded a listing period
By bedrooms
- 3 bed 7 sales $1.22M
- 4 bed 15 sales $2.21M
- 5 bed 7 sales $2.67M
Land
$5,100,000
Based on 10 recorded sales in the last 24 months.
Rental Market
Advertised rents · last 6 monthsHouses in Luddenham rent for around $735 a week on average, based on 4 houses listed for rent in the past six months.
$735/wk
4 houses advertised for rent in the last 6 months.
4 rentals advertised against an estimated 82 rented homes (4.9%) in the last 6 months.
Rent agreed on new leases
Jul–Sep 2026- 3-bed houses
- $700/wk
- 35 bonds
- +40% since 2021
- 2-bed units
- $605/wk
- 18 bonds
- +51% since 2021
Median weekly rent on bonds lodged for new tenancies across postcode 2745 (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 2025107 Moderately unaffordable · the average rental household in this region would pay about 28% of its income on the median rent in postcode 2745.
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.
Short-Stay Rentals
3 active Airbnb listings: 3 whole homes and 0 rooms. Whole homes are about 0.5% 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 Luddenham safe? Crime statistics
2025Crime in Luddenham sits in the high band, with 110 incidents recorded in 2025 — down about 4% on the prior year.
110 offences
3.5% since 2024Crime Trend
Serious Road Crashes
2021–20259 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
Penrith City Council has published 13 flood studies on the NSW Flood Data Portal. The mapped flood areas are in those studies; SuburbScan does not hold them.
- Rickabys Creek Catchment Flood Study 2025
- Peach Tree & Lower Surveyors Creeks Catchment Floodplain Risk Management Study and Plan 2025
- College, Orth and Werrington Creeks Catchment Floodplain Risk Management Study & Plan 2021 2022
- Little Creek Catchment Floodplain Risk Management Study and Plan 2022
- South Creek Floodplain Risk Management Study and Plan 2020
Aircraft Noise
ANEF Contour Details
Significant impact — conditional building
Significant impact — conditional building
Significant impact — conditional building
Moderate impact — noise insulation required
Moderate impact — noise insulation required
Noticeable aircraft noise
Noticeable aircraft noise
Noticeable aircraft noise
Schools
Two schools serve Luddenham, and the cohort is trailing peer-suburb performance.
- • 291 students across 2 schools (avg 146)
- • Sectors: 1 Catholic, 1 Government
- • ICSEA 911-1012, median 962 (below the national baseline of 1000)
- • Largest: Holy Family Primary School (256 students)
Primary
Walkability
Luddenham is very car-dependent on foot — at 5/100, nearly all errands require a car.
Public transport
Weekday and weekend service frequency across every stop inside Luddenham.
- Peak (7-9am + 5-7pm)
- 5.2 arrivals/hr
- Off-peak weekday
- 3.6 arrivals/hr
- Saturday
- 2.0 arrivals/hr
- Median peak wait
- 3.5 min
- Span of service
- 17.0 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 Luddenham.
- Full-fibre (FTTP) share
- 44%
- Premises covered
- 659
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
Penrith: 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 7 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.
Luddenham is home to about 1,900 residents, with a median age of 37, broadly in line with the national figure. Median household income runs at $154,000 a year, with unemployment at 2.1%.
2021 Census · change since 2016
Population
1,927
Median Age
37
Median Household Income
$154,336/yr
Census Median Rent
$480/wk
Census Median Mortgage
$3,000/mo
Avg Household Size
3.5
Median Personal Income
$52,364/yr
Unemployment Rate
2.1%
Unoccupied Dwellings
6.6%
Total Dwellings
528
Owner-Occupier Rate
84.5%
Houses
98.3%
Rental Stress
16.2%
Mortgage Stress
23.3%
Work From Home
37.6%
Dwelling Types
Property Ownership
Demographics
- Born in Australia
- 80.2%
- English Spoken at Home
- 78.4%
- Employment Rate
- 68.1%
- Completed Year 12
- 36.8%
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.
10 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.
Top places newcomers came from, as a share of the 1,817 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
3% of employed residents work in a capital's city centre (34 of 1,018).
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 527 people work here; 1,018 employed residents live here.
Mostly a place people commute from: 0.5 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 $1,547 a year through Penrith based on 2024 figures.
How this land is zoned
- Rural and farming 24%
- Other and special use 23%
- Infrastructure and transport 21%
- Commercial 17%
- Environmental 13%
- Parks and recreation 2%
- Not zoned 1%
Planning zones cover 99% 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: Penrith
In the year to August 2026, 1,063 new dwellings were approved across Penrith. That mix is 674 houses and 389 units. Approvals are down 77.5% on the same period a year earlier.
Aboriginal Land Council
Aboriginal land in this area is administered by the Deerubbin 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, 7.7 km away.
Climate & Setting
from Orchard Hills Treatment Works, 6.8 kmModerate rainfall.
- Elevation
- 67 m
- above sea level, at the suburb centre
- Distance to the ocean
- 41.8 km
- Near high-voltage lines
- 2.2% of addresses
- 20 within 100 m of an overhead line of 110 kV or more
- Annual rainfall
- 822 mm
- 81 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
4 facilities within 5 km- 2.3 km
- 2.3 km
- 2.3 km
- 4.4 kmWaste Treatment and Disposal ServicesTop reported: Carbon monoxide · Particulate Matter ≤10.0 µm (PM10) · Oxides of Nitrogen
EV adoption
In postcode 2745, 218 of 23,050 registered light vehicles are battery-electric on 31 January 2025. A further 2.8% (648 vehicles) are hybrid or plug-in hybrid, taking the non-petrol, non-diesel share to 3.8%.
Rooftop solar
In postcode 2745, 5,716 rooftop-solar systems totalling 45.9 MW have been installed since 2001, against 10,164 dwellings recorded in the 2021 Census. 404 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
2 mortgage brokers are registered in this suburb, 25 across postcode 2745.
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 $2,756,444 this is $2,156,444 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 Melissa Mcintosh Liberal
| Year | Winner | 2PP ALP | 2PP LNP | Swing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Melissa Mcintosh | 47.2% | 52.8% | +3.3 |
| 2022 | Melissa Mcintosh | 43.7% | 56.3% | +1.3 |
| 2019 | Melissa Mcintosh | 45.0% | 55.0% | +6.2 |
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 Tanya Davies Liberal
Next state election: 13 March 2027.
| Year | Winner | Won with |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Tanya Davies LP | 60.5% |
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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Common questions about Luddenham
Is Luddenham a safe place to live?
Recorded crime in Luddenham is high (71/100, 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 Luddenham?
Luddenham has a moderate recorded bushfire history (66/100, ranked against every Australian suburb with any fire history). Part of it sits inside an aircraft noise contour. These are suburb-wide figures; check the address, as flood and bushfire exposure change street by street.
Is Luddenham a good place to live?
Luddenham has a SuburbScan Liveability grade of C (41/100), 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 Luddenham?
Luddenham, NSW had a population of 1,927 at the 2021 Australian Bureau of Statistics census.
What is the postcode for Luddenham, NSW?
The postcode for Luddenham, NSW is 2745.
How far is Luddenham from Sydney?
Luddenham is 57 km from Sydney CBD by road, about 52 minutes by car in normal traffic. Distance is the most-direct driving route, not straight-line.
What is the median household income in Luddenham?
At the 2021 ABS Census, median household income in Luddenham was $154,336 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 Luddenham?
The median advertised rent in Luddenham is $735 a week for houses (4 listings), from rental listings over the last six months.
What is the median age in Luddenham?
The median age of residents in Luddenham was 37 at the 2021 ABS Census.
Is Luddenham at risk of bushfire?
Luddenham has a moderate recorded bushfire history (66/100). 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 Luddenham?
There are 2 schools inside the Luddenham boundary: 1 at and 1 below similar schools on NAPLAN, compared with same-state, same-type schools of similar socio-educational advantage (ICSEA).
Is Luddenham walkable?
Luddenham scores 5/100 on the SuburbScan Walkability Score, making it very car-dependent. 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 Luddenham?
The nearest government air-quality monitoring station to Luddenham (Bringelly) recorded a 2025 annual mean PM2.5 of 6.7 µg/m³ and PM10 of 16.9 µg/m³. That puts Luddenham 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 Luddenham?
At the nearest Bureau of Meteorology station to Luddenham, Orchard Hills Treatment Works (6.8 km away), 822 mm of rain a year over 81 rainy days over 2006-2026.
Is the First Home Owner Grant available in Luddenham?
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 Luddenham belong to?
Luddenham sits within the Penrith local government area. Council rates, planning approvals, and waste collection fall under this LGA.
How much are council rates in Luddenham?
The average residential rates bill through Penrith is $1,547 a year (2024). Every suburb in this LGA shares the same schedule — individual bills vary with land value.
How much is being built near Luddenham?
Across Penrith, 1,063 new residential dwellings were approved in the year to August 2026 (source: ABS Building Approvals). That's down 77.5% 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 Luddenham in?
Luddenham sits within the federal Division of Lindsay, currently held by Melissa Mcintosh (Liberal).
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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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