Bulli (NSW 2516): property prices, streets & suburb profile

Wollongong LGA · Latest published data July 2026 · Page updated August 2026 · Public government records

Bulli · NSW 2516 · median house price (24 months)
$1,720,000+111.8%
vs 10 years ago (repeat-sales index, all dwellings)
Bulli has about 2,336 dwellings on record, with 167 house and 46 unit sales recorded in the last two years across 74 streets.
Median house price
$1,720,000
167 sales, 24 months
Median unit price
$872,500
46 strata sales, 24 months
Median rent, 3-br house
$885/wk
30 bonds, 12 months
Gross rental yield
2.7%
3-br postcode rent vs house median
How tightly held
1 in 22
homes on record trades each year
Nearest station
Bulli Railway Station
Train, 0.2 km away

Bulli house and unit prices

The median Bulli house sold for $1,720,000 across the last 24 months; constant-quality growth is +111.8% over 10 years and +43.2% over 5 years.

Property type
1Y
3Y
5Y
10Y
Houses
+11.3%
+25.4%
+29.8%
+159.5%
Units
-1.7%
+3.3%
+16.4%
+59.5%

Change in 12-month median sale prices to July 2026 vs the same window 1, 3, 5 and 10 years earlier · NSW Valuer General records

Median house price · 12 months to July 2026
Bulli
$1,837,000
Wollongong LGA
$1,185,000
NSW
$1,100,000
Houses (quarterly median)
Units (yearly median)
565k1.04M1.52M1.99M2.47M20172019202120232025
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PeriodHouses (quarterly median)Units (yearly median)
July 2015$696,000
Oct 2015$698,000
2016$802,750$570,000
Apr 2016$767,000
July 2016$675,000
Oct 2016$855,000
2017$1,100,000$680,000
Apr 2017$1,100,000
July 2017$1,057,500
Oct 2017$1,290,000
2018$1,055,000$665,000
Apr 2018$920,000
July 2018$1,015,500
Oct 2018$970,000
2019$922,500$595,000
Apr 2019$937,500
July 2019$1,155,000
Oct 2019$1,178,000
2020$1,000,000$660,000
Apr 2020$965,000
July 2020$1,400,000
Oct 2020$1,225,000
2021$1,597,500$910,000
Apr 2021$1,475,000
July 2021$1,885,000
Oct 2021$1,990,000
2022$1,745,000$796,000
Apr 2022$1,640,000
July 2022$1,490,000
Oct 2022$1,150,600
2023$1,590,000$1,429,000
Apr 2023$1,612,000
July 2023$1,487,500
Oct 2023$1,750,000
2024$1,255,000$777,500
Apr 2024$1,450,000
July 2024$1,642,500
Oct 2024$1,600,000
2025$1,585,000$877,500
Apr 2025$1,702,500
July 2025$1,690,000
Oct 2025$2,350,000
2026$1,640,000
Apr 2026$2,150,000
  • The headline growth figure uses a repeat-sales index of all dwellings (the same homes resold), which removes mix-of-what-sold noise; the tiles compare 12-month medians per dwelling type, so the two can differ, and differ widely where what sold changed.
  • Unit medians are yearly because strata volumes are low; treat them as indicative.
  • Quarters with fewer than three house sales are left off the chart; one sale does not make a market median.

Bulli street by street

Across the 27 Bulli streets that qualify for the ranking, five-year medians run from $1,100,000 on Wallbank Way to $4,900,000 on Blackall Street.

Most expensive street (houses)

Blackall Street

$4,900,000 five-year median · 5 sales

Most affordable street (houses)

Wallbank Way

$1,100,000 five-year median · 33 sales

House sales over the last five years, by price
252 sales
  • under $1.50M
  • $1.50M to $2.00M
  • $2.00M and above

Each dot is one house sale over the last five years, 252 in all, placed at the address that sold and shaded by what it fetched. Prices are as paid, with part shares and multi-property dealings left out. It draws 26 of the 27 ranked streets, leaving off 1 whose sales are geocoded to a point several streets share, which stands for the suburb rather than for anywhere on the street; the colour bands are cut over all 27 of them, and the table below has them all.

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Street medians, five years of house sales
StreetMedianSales (5 years)
Blackall Street$4.90M5
Panmills Drive$2.78M7
Southview Street$2.70M5
Sandon Drive$2.70M5
Somerville Street$2.67M6
Park Road$2.13M9
Willcath Street$2.07M13
Thorn Parade$1.94M8
Colemans Lane$1.85M6
Hutton Avenue$1.85M15
Point Street$1.84M15
Westmacott Parade$1.76M15
Owen Street$1.73M14
George Avenue$1.65M17
Hobart Street$1.56M6
William Street$1.56M6
Hospital Road$1.54M14
Farrell Road$1.46M25
Alanson Avenue$1.40M9
Highlands Parade$1.36M12
Organs Road$1.32M15
Beattie Avenue$1.30M5
Waterloo Street$1.29M5
Princes Highway$1.25M13
Callows Road$1.17M17
Wallbank Way$1.10M33
Bulli streets with a published median · last 10 years of sales
Blackall Street$4.90M5
Trinity Row$3.50M7
Garaban Court$3.02M6
Beach Street$2.63M51
Aragan Circuit$2.27M14
Hill Street$2.10M9
O'Brien Street$1.95M92
Park Road$1.95M13$717k9
Alroy Street$1.93M8
Somerville Street$1.93M12
Panmills Drive$1.85M17
Southview Street$1.84M101
Sandon Drive$1.80M13
Point Street$1.78M24$1.49M22
Benelong Street$1.76M8
Colemans Lane$1.76M102
Jardine Street$1.76M71
Wilkies Street$1.61M6
Geraghty Street$1.56M8
Hutton Avenue$1.55M28
Willcath Street$1.54M26
Blackbutt Place$1.52M8
Owen Street$1.47M25$600k16
Thorn Parade$1.45M14
Sturt Place$1.40M6
  • A street needs at least 5 sales of a type in 10 years to get a median, so streets quieter than that are left out entirely.
  • Sales that moved several properties on one dealing are left out, because the record repeats that dealing's whole price against every property in it.
  • The highlight cards rank on house sales only, using each street's last-5-years median (at least 5 sales in that window), so unit-heavy streets are not mislabelled as cheap and the figures reflect prices a buyer could pay now; the table shows the full 10-year view.
  • A street is left out of the ranking when its five-year median sits below three-fifths of its own 10-year median, or far below the suburb's median (a bar set higher for streets with no older sales of their own to stand behind them). Those windows are usually land sold before the houses went up, or a part share of a home priced as though it were the whole. Those streets stay in the table with their 10-year median.
  • Prices are as-paid and not inflation-adjusted.

What buyers paid in Bulli

Half of the 167 house sales in the last 24 months landed between $1,331,250 and $2,387,500.

07152229Median $1.72M$1.00M$1.50M$2.00M$2.50M$3.00M$3.50M$3.75M
Middle 50% of sales: $1.33M – $2.39M
Median $1.72M
153 sales total
  • House sales only, 24 months. The unit median is quoted separately.
  • Chart covers $1,000,000 to $3,750,000: 14 of the 167 house sales fall outside it (the cheapest and dearest few) and are left out so a handful of outliers cannot distort the shape.

Rent in Bulli by bedrooms

A 3-bedroom house rents for a median $885/wk.

Median weekly rent · houses
3-bedroom
$885/wk
4-bedroom
$1,100/wk
  • From NSW rental bond lodgements for postcode 2516 (covers neighbouring suburbs too), 12 months to July 2026.
  • Bands with fewer than 10 bonds are hidden.
  • Biggest 12-month move: 4-bedroom houses +12.8% year on year.

Who lives in Bulli

Bulli has a median age of 40 and a median household income of $2,331 a week, and 77.5% of homes are owner-occupied.

Population (Bulli)
6,798
Median age (Bulli)
40 years
Median household income (Bulli)
$2,331/wk
People per square kilometre
785
Average taxable income (postcode, 2023)
$97,829
Average household size (SA2)
2.6
Median mortgage repayment (SA2)
$2,349/month
Australian-born (postcode)
82.8%
SEIFA advantage decile (Bulli)
10 of 10
Rooftop solar installs, 12 months (postcode)
82
How Bulli homes are held
Owned outright
35.0% · 823
Owned with a mortgage
42.5% · 1,001
Rented
21.2% · 498
Bulli homes by bedroom count
1 bedroom or studio
4.3% · 100
2 bedrooms
16.8% · 392
3 bedrooms
37.9% · 887
4 bedrooms
30.4% · 711
5 or more
10.6% · 249
ABS SEIFA 2021 deciles · 10 of 10 = most advantaged nationally
Advantage and disadvantage (IRSAD)from income, education, occupation and housing
10 of 10
Relative disadvantage (IRSD)from low income, low education and unskilled occupations
8 of 10
Economic resources (IER)from household income, wealth and housing costs
8 of 10
Education and occupation (IEO)from qualifications and skilled work
9 of 10
  • Figures labelled Bulli are for the suburb boundary itself (ABS 2021 Census). Anything labelled SA2 or postcode covers a wider area: SA2 "Woonona - Bulli - Russell Vale" and postcode 2516 both extend beyond Bulli.
  • SEIFA decile 1 is the lowest tenth of Australian areas on that index and 10 the highest. The four indices measure different things and often disagree, which is why all four are shown: a suburb can rank high on education and occupation while ranking mid on economic resources.

Bushfire, flood and planning in Bulli

15.8% of Bulli properties sit in a mapped bushfire-prone area; no flood mapping is available in our dataset for this suburb.

Properties in a mapped bushfire-prone area
15.8%
Flood mapping
No flood mapping available in our dataset
Heritage-flagged properties
563
Land zoning of properties
R2 Low Density Residential (88%), R3 Medium Density Residential (7%), C4 Environmental Living (2%)
  • Bushfire-prone land is the NSW RFS certified map; being inside it triggers extra building requirements, not a prediction of fire.
  • Absence of flood mapping in our dataset is NOT evidence a property cannot flood: always order a council s10.7 certificate before buying.

Schools serving Bulli

Most Bulli homes fall in the Waniora Public School intake zone.

Schools located in Bulli
Bulli High SchoolGovernmentSecondary1,058
Bulli Public SchoolGovernmentPrimary1,069
St Joseph's Catholic Primary SchoolCatholicPrimary1,121
Waniora Public SchoolGovernmentPrimary1,077
Public primary catchment (61% of homes)
Waniora Public School
Public primary catchment (37% of homes)
Bulli Public School
Public secondary catchment (99% of homes)
Bulli High School
Public secondary catchment (1% of homes)
Woonona High School
Median school percentile nationally · ICSEA score
Bulli · 4 schools
76th · 1073
Wollongong LGA
70th · 1054
Illawarra & South Coast
48th · 1003
NSW
51st · 1009
Australia
51st · 1008
  • ICSEA is ACARA's socio-educational index (average 1000). It describes the family backgrounds of the students enrolled, NOT how well a school teaches: a lower ICSEA means a less advantaged intake, not a worse school.
  • Percentiles are ACARA's own national ranking, so the Australia bar is a published figure rather than our arithmetic. Each area shows the median of the mainstream schools sitting inside it; special schools are listed in the table but excluded from the medians.
  • Catchments are NSW Department of Education intake zones; always confirm an address with the school.

Crime and safety around Bulli

Break-ins, car theft and malicious damage run at 1,250 per 100,000 residents in postcode 2516, 16.8% below the NSW rate of 1,502.

Recorded incidents, Wollongong LGA (12m)
18,994
of which assault (LGA)
1,683
of which theft (LGA)
5,352
Recorded incidents, postcode 2516 (12m)
410
Break-ins, car theft and malicious damage · incidents per 100,000 residents
Postcode 2516 (Bulli + neighbours)
1,250
Wollongong LGA
1,627
Illawarra & South Coast
1,485
NSW
1,502
  • Counts are BOCSAR recorded incidents for January 2025 to December 2025 at LGA and postcode grain: both cover several suburbs, so they include neighbours of Bulli.
  • Rates divide incidents by resident population (ABS 2021 Census), so they are comparable between areas in a way raw counts are not. Every tier uses the same offences and the same 12 months for January 2025 to December 2025.
  • Two limits worth knowing: the rate counts residents only, so a postcode with a town centre, nightlife strip or shopping precinct carries crime generated by visitors against a small resident denominator and reads high; and the population is the 2021 Census, so a suburb that has grown fast since then reads high too.

Recent house sales in Bulli

The most recent house sales on record in Bulli are from 2026, 17 of them. Search a street to see what it has been fetching.

Southview Street2026$4.12M
Panmills Drive2026$3.02M
Farrell Road2026$2.84M
Hutton Avenue2026$2.50M
Somerville Street2026$2.50M
Highlands Parade2026$1.93M
Hobart Street2026$1.80M
William Street2026$1.68M
Highlands Parade2026$1.62M
Point Street2026$1.60M
Alanson Avenue2026$1.58M
Owen Street2026$1.46M

One row per house sale on record for the last five years, by street and the year it sold. Sale prices are as paid. Part shares and multi-property dealings are excluded, and unit sales are not included here.

Suburbs near Bulli

Bulli's median house price of $1,720,000 is the 3rd highest of the 66 Illawarra & South Coast suburbs we cover.

All Illawarra & South Coast suburb research

Bulli: common questions

What is the median house price in Bulli?
$1,720,000, based on 167 house sales over the 24 months to July 2026 (NSW Valuer General records).
What are the most and least expensive streets in Bulli?
Of the 27 Bulli streets that qualify for the five-year ranking, Blackall Street has the highest house median at $4,900,000 (5 sales); Wallbank Way has the lowest at $1,100,000 (33 sales).
How much have Bulli property prices grown?
A repeat-sales index of Bulli dwellings has risen 111.8% over 10 years and moved +43.2% over 5 years.
What does it cost to rent in Bulli?
The median 3-bedroom house in postcode 2516 rents for $885/wk, from 30 bonds lodged in the last 12 months.
Which public schools serve Bulli?
Waniora Public School (primary, zoned for 61% of homes); Bulli Public School (primary, zoned for 37% of homes); Bulli High School (secondary, zoned for 99% of homes); Woonona High School (secondary, zoned for 1% of homes).
Is Bulli affected by bushfire or flood risk?
15.8% of properties sit in the NSW RFS bushfire-prone land map. No flood mapping is available in our dataset for this suburb; that is not evidence properties cannot flood; check a council s10.7 certificate.
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Data sources

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