Located in New South Wales, Sutton Forest sits 139 km from Sydney CBD, around 1 hour 50 minutes by car. The locality has 504 residents, a median age of 50, and a median household income of $107,588 per year. By household income, education, and employment patterns, it ranks in the top 20% nationally. The locality grew 5.7% between 2016 and 2021. At the 2021 Census, households here paid a median rent of $300 per week and a median monthly mortgage of $2,859. Walkability is low.
Is Sutton Forest a good place to live?
Sutton Forest scores a B (52/100) on SuburbScan's Liveability grade — strong on community, weaker on transit and prices.
Car-dependent
Walkability 0/100 · 139 km · 108 min drive to Sydney
Above the state median
Median $1.97M · Pricier than 80% of NSW
Moderate crime risk
Fire 14/100 · Crime 58/100
Very advantaged
SEIFA decile 10/10 · median age 50 · 504 residents
Liveability Rating
52 / 100 · Ranked #707 in NSWEach bar is Sutton Forest'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 Sutton Forest?
Local knowledge beats any dataset. Rate it and see what other residents think.
Our score
52 / 100
From schools, safety and socio-economic data — not opinion.
Residents say
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Median House Price
Public listings dataSutton Forest's house market is moving lower: the median sale price reached $1.97 million, roughly 58% below where it sat a year earlier.
$1,973,750
80% above its 4 neighbours (median $1,095,000)
Based on 12 recorded sales in the last 24 months.
Typically sold in 85 days — median across 3 sales that recorded a listing period
Rental Market
Rent agreed on new leases
Jul–Sep 2026- 3-bed houses
- $662/wk
- 36 bonds
- +31% since 2021
Median weekly rent on bonds lodged for new tenancies across postcode 2577 (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 202584 Unaffordable · the average rental household in this region would pay about 36% of its income on the median rent in postcode 2577.
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.
Is Sutton Forest safe? Crime statistics
2025Crime in Sutton Forest sits in the moderate band, with 28 incidents recorded in 2025 — down roughly 36% on the prior year.
28 offences
36.4% since 2024Crime Trend
Serious Road Crashes
2021–202520 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 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
Wingecarribee Shire Council has published 9 flood studies on the NSW Flood Data Portal. The mapped flood areas are in those studies; SuburbScan does not hold them.
- Wingecarribee River Flood Study Update 2022
- Review of Whites Creek Floodplain Risk Management Study & Plan 2020
- Nattai Ponds Floodplain Risk Management Study & Draft Plan 2019
- Gibbergunyah Creek Floodplain Risk Management Study and Draft Plan 2016
- Nattai River Floodplain Risk Management Study and Plan 2016
Schools
Walkability
Sutton Forest 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 Sutton Forest.
- Peak (7-9am + 5-7pm)
- 7.2 arrivals/hr
- Off-peak weekday
- 1.8 arrivals/hr
- Saturday
- 0.1 arrivals/hr
- Median peak wait
- 2 min
- Span of service
- 10.6 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 Sutton Forest.
- Full-fibre (FTTP) share
- 0%
- Premises covered
- 221
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
Wingecarribee: 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
The ABS scores 4 small areas inside this locality and averages them into the single decile above. They fall into 4 different deciles — a wide range, so parts of this locality rank well above the average and parts well below it.
Sutton Forest is home to 504 residents, with a median age of 50 — noticeably older than the national figure of 38. Median household income runs at $108,000 a year, with unemployment at 2.8%.
2021 Census · change since 2016
Population
504
Median Age
50
Median Household Income
$107,588/yr
Census Median Rent
$300/wk
Census Median Mortgage
$2,859/mo
Avg Household Size
2.5
Median Personal Income
$52,104/yr
Unemployment Rate
2.8%
Unoccupied Dwellings
26.1%
Total Dwellings
188
Owner-Occupier Rate
80.6%
Houses
95.7%
Rental Stress
14.5%
Mortgage Stress
31.9%
Work From Home
35.8%
Dwelling Types
Property Ownership
Demographics
- Born in Australia
- 75.2%
- English Spoken at Home
- 86.5%
- Employment Rate
- 57.6%
- Completed Year 12
- 43.5%
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.
7 residents (1.4%) 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.
Age Distribution
Family & Household Composition
Commute to Work
2% of employed residents work in a capital's city centre (6 of 249).
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.
Education
Cars per Dwelling
Council Rates
Households face an average residential rates bill of $2,072 a year through Wingecarribee based on 2024 figures.
How this land is zoned
- Environmental 90%
- Rural and farming 6%
- Infrastructure and transport 3%
- 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 locality around it — the property page shows the zone for one address.
Building Approvals: Wingecarribee
In the year to August 2026, 335 new dwellings were approved across Wingecarribee. That mix is 244 houses and 91 units. Approvals are up 5.6% on the same period a year earlier.
Aboriginal Land Council
Aboriginal land in this area is administered by the Illawarra 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 Mittagong (Alfred Street), 21.4 kmHigh rainfall.
- Elevation
- 681 m
- above sea level, at the locality centre
- Near high-voltage lines
- 2.9% of addresses
- 8 within 100 m of an overhead line of 110 kV or more
- Annual rainfall
- 974 mm
- 97 rainy days
- Summer max (Jan)
- —
- Winter min (Jul)
- —
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 2577, 145 of 15,728 registered light vehicles are battery-electric on 31 January 2025. A further 2.8% (434 vehicles) are hybrid or plug-in hybrid, taking the non-petrol, non-diesel share to 3.7%.
Rooftop solar
In postcode 2577, 4,091 rooftop-solar systems totalling 33.1 MW have been installed since 2001, against 7,331 dwellings recorded in the 2021 Census. 335 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
10 mortgage brokers are registered in postcode 2577.
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 $1,973,750 this is $1,373,750 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 Carol Berry Australian Labor Party
| Year | Winner | 2PP ALP | 2PP LNP | Swing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Carol Berry | 56.2% | 43.8% | -2.1 |
| 2022 | Stephen Jones | 60.1% | 39.9% | +0.8 |
| 2019 | Stephen Jones | 60.9% | 39.1% | +39.1 |
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 Sutton Forest?
Every figure above is a locality average, and an average smooths over the difference between a street of family homes and a block of flats. Look up one address and you get the census for the few hundred people around it, its own nearest schools and stops, and what the state has mapped for that block.
- The census for a few hundred neighbours, not all 504 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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Nearby suburbs
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Canyonleigh NSW 2577
Penrose NSW 2579
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Common questions about Sutton Forest
Is Sutton Forest a safe place to live?
Recorded crime in Sutton Forest is moderate (58/100, ranked against other NSW suburbs on offences per resident).
What natural hazards affect Sutton Forest?
Sutton Forest has a low recorded bushfire history (14/100, 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 Sutton Forest a good place to live?
Sutton Forest 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 Sutton Forest?
Sutton Forest, NSW had a population of 504 at the 2021 Australian Bureau of Statistics census.
What is the postcode for Sutton Forest, NSW?
The postcode for Sutton Forest, NSW is 2577.
How far is Sutton Forest from Sydney?
Sutton Forest is 139 km from Sydney CBD by road, about 108 minutes by car in normal traffic. Distance is the most-direct driving route, not straight-line.
What is the median household income in Sutton Forest?
At the 2021 ABS Census, median household income in Sutton Forest was $107,588 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 Sutton Forest?
There are too few current rental listings in Sutton Forest for a reliable median. At the 2021 ABS Census the median weekly rent was $300, across all dwelling types.
What is the median age in Sutton Forest?
The median age of residents in Sutton Forest was 50 at the 2021 ABS Census.
Is Sutton Forest at risk of bushfire?
Sutton Forest has a low recorded bushfire history (14/100). 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.
What is the weather like in Sutton Forest?
At the nearest Bureau of Meteorology station to Sutton Forest, Mittagong (Alfred Street) (21.4 km away), 974 mm of rain a year over 97 rainy days over 2006-2026.
Is the First Home Owner Grant available in Sutton Forest?
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 Sutton Forest belong to?
Sutton Forest sits within the Wingecarribee local government area. Council rates, planning approvals, and waste collection fall under this LGA.
How much are council rates in Sutton Forest?
The average residential rates bill through Wingecarribee is $2,072 a year (2024). Every suburb in this LGA shares the same schedule — individual bills vary with land value.
How much is being built near Sutton Forest?
Across Wingecarribee, 335 new residential dwellings were approved in the year to August 2026 (source: ABS Building Approvals). That's up 5.6% 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 Sutton Forest in?
Sutton Forest sits within the federal Division of Whitlam, currently held by Carol Berry (Australian Labor Party).
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Data freshness
- Census · 2021
- Median sale prices · 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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