Kanahooka (NSW 2530): property prices, streets & suburb profile

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

Kanahooka · NSW 2530 · median house price (24 months)
$925,000+89.6%
vs 10 years ago (repeat-sales index, all dwellings)
Kanahooka has about 2,172 dwellings on record, with 155 house and 66 unit sales recorded in the last two years across 64 streets.
Median house price
$925,000
155 sales, 24 months
Median unit price
$830,000
66 strata sales, 24 months
Median rent, 3-br house
$690/wk
230 bonds, 12 months
Gross rental yield
3.9%
3-br postcode rent vs house median
How tightly held
1 in 20
homes on record trades each year
Nearest station
Kembla Grange Railway Station
Train, 2.6 km away

Kanahooka house and unit prices

The median Kanahooka house sold for $925,000 across the last 24 months; constant-quality growth is +89.6% over 10 years and +38.8% over 5 years.

Property type
1Y
3Y
5Y
10Y
Houses
+12.9%
+22.4%
+49.1%
+87.1%
Units
+7.1%
No data
+51.7%
+88.6%

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
Kanahooka
$982,500
Wollongong LGA
$1,185,000
NSW
$1,100,000
Houses (quarterly median)
Units (yearly median)
505k652k800k947k1.09M20172019202120232025
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PeriodHouses (quarterly median)Units (yearly median)
July 2015$480,000
Oct 2015$493,750
2016$529,000$500,000
Apr 2016$531,500
July 2016$586,950
Oct 2016$594,800
2017$606,000$547,500
Apr 2017$620,000
July 2017$612,000
Oct 2017$655,000
2018$650,000$606,000
Apr 2018$640,000
July 2018$620,000
Oct 2018$650,000
2019$645,000$560,000
Apr 2019$597,500
July 2019$550,000
Oct 2019$552,000
2020$590,000$560,000
Apr 2020$687,500
July 2020$587,500
Oct 2020$630,000
2021$692,750$642,500
Apr 2021$723,750
July 2021$810,000
Oct 2021$847,500
2022$800,000$730,000
Apr 2022$803,750
July 2022$845,000
Oct 2022$775,000
2023$810,000$610,000
Apr 2023$826,250
July 2023$827,500
Oct 2023$842,500
2024$840,000$761,000
Apr 2024$850,000
July 2024$915,000
Oct 2024$870,000
2025$843,000$845,000
Apr 2025$844,000
July 2025$985,000
Oct 2025$980,000
2026$980,000
Apr 2026$1,042,500
  • 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.

Kanahooka street by street

Across the 34 Kanahooka streets that qualify for the ranking, five-year medians run from $700,000 on Ashmore Crescent to $1,452,475 on Rondanella Drive.

Most expensive street (houses)

Rondanella Drive

$1,452,475 five-year median · 6 sales

Most affordable street (houses)

Ashmore Crescent

$700,000 five-year median · 11 sales

House sales over the last five years, by price
326 sales
  • under $800k
  • $800k to $900k
  • $900k and above

Each dot is one house sale over the last five years, 326 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.

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Street medians, five years of house sales
StreetMedianSales (5 years)
Rondanella Drive$1.45M6
Murra Murra Road$1.41M6
Rushton Drive$1.15M7
Lakeside Drive$1.11M5
Burrows Avenue$1.05M6
Brooks Terrace$994k14
Palmer Avenue$960k5
Shiral Avenue$930k7
Morse Avenue$927k8
Kanahooka Road$925k34
Longley Grove$885k9
Tait Avenue$885k27
Myee Street$880k13
Kalang Avenue$880k5
Delmont Place$868k8
Edgeworth Avenue$866k20
Blakemore Avenue$855k5
Kalbarri Grove$855k6
Sanderson Road$840k16
Kathryn Street$837k5
Thirroul Road$828k17
Linton Court$825k8
Saltwater Circuit$825k7
Exmouth Road$820k12
Hallam Close$812k6
Robert Street$809k6
Tarana Avenue$804k6
Stanthorpe Drive$800k9
William Beach Road$788k12
Rogers Avenue$785k7
Hayward Street$780k6
Elouera Crescent$772k16
Cleary Avenue$768k6
Ashmore Crescent$700k11
Kanahooka streets with a published median · last 10 years of sales
Rondanella Drive$1.27M14
Theatre Terrace$1.11M7
Murra Murra Road$1.08M14
Burrows Avenue$1.03M9
Shiral Avenue$916k8
Fields Street$903k6
Streeton Avenue$880k6
Longley Grove$858k13
Darren Avenue$850k73
Rushton Drive$830k15
Blakemore Avenue$815k8
Tait Avenue$815k51
The Arches$804k104
Kalbarri Grove$801k9
Myee Street$800k191
Kathryn Street$788k8
Brooks Terrace$780k284
Linton Court$775k11
Lakeside Drive$772k12
Delmont Place$770k18
Kanahooka Road$765k69$667k133
Dimond Avenue$758k6
Saltwater Circuit$745k16
William Beach Road$740k20
Tarana Avenue$734k8
  • 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 Kanahooka

Half of the 155 house sales in the last 24 months landed between $840,000 and $1,070,000.

010213141Median $925k$700k$900k$1.10M$1.30M$1.40M
Middle 50% of sales: $840k – $1.07M
Median $925k
144 sales total
  • House sales only, 24 months. The unit median is quoted separately.
  • Chart covers $700,000 to $1,400,000: 11 of the 155 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 Kanahooka by bedrooms

A 3-bedroom house rents for a median $690/wk.

Median weekly rent · houses
2-bedroom
$550/wk
3-bedroom
$690/wk
4-bedroom
$850/wk
5-bedroom
$900/wk
Median weekly rent · units
1-bedroom
$430/wk
2-bedroom
$530/wk
  • From NSW rental bond lodgements for postcode 2530 (covers neighbouring suburbs too), 12 months to July 2026.
  • Bands with fewer than 10 bonds are hidden.
  • Biggest 12-month move: 1-bedroom units +32.3% year on year.

Who lives in Kanahooka

Kanahooka has a median age of 48 and a median household income of $1,399 a week, and 84.1% of homes are owner-occupied.

Population (Kanahooka)
5,698
Median age (Kanahooka)
48 years
Median household income (Kanahooka)
$1,399/wk
People per square kilometre
1,555
Average taxable income (postcode, 2023)
$70,419
Average household size (SA2)
2.5
Median mortgage repayment (SA2)
$1,950/month
Australian-born (postcode)
80.1%
SEIFA advantage decile (Kanahooka)
5 of 10
Rooftop solar installs, 12 months (postcode)
404
How Kanahooka homes are held
Owned outright
50.3% · 1,103
Owned with a mortgage
33.9% · 744
Rented
12.1% · 266
Kanahooka homes by bedroom count
1 bedroom or studio
1.4% · 30
2 bedrooms
13.9% · 302
3 bedrooms
49.2% · 1,069
4 bedrooms
28.0% · 608
5 or more
7.6% · 165
ABS SEIFA 2021 deciles · 10 of 10 = most advantaged nationally
Advantage and disadvantage (IRSAD)from income, education, occupation and housing
5 of 10
Relative disadvantage (IRSD)from low income, low education and unskilled occupations
5 of 10
Economic resources (IER)from household income, wealth and housing costs
5 of 10
Education and occupation (IEO)from qualifications and skilled work
3 of 10
  • Figures labelled Kanahooka are for the suburb boundary itself (ABS 2021 Census). Anything labelled SA2 or postcode covers a wider area: SA2 "Dapto - Avondale" and postcode 2530 both extend beyond Kanahooka.
  • 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 Kanahooka

0.5% of Kanahooka 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
0.5%
Flood mapping
No flood mapping available in our dataset
Heritage-flagged properties
80
Land zoning of properties
R2 Low Density Residential (92%), C4 Environmental Living (6%), R5 Large Lot Residential (1%)
  • 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 Kanahooka

Most Kanahooka homes fall in the Hayes Park Public School intake zone.

Schools located in Kanahooka
Hayes Park Public SchoolGovernmentPrimary972
Kanahooka High SchoolGovernmentSecondary912
Public primary catchment (98% of homes)
Hayes Park Public School
Public primary catchment (2% of homes)
Koonawarra Public School
Public secondary catchment
Kanahooka High School
Median school percentile nationally · ICSEA score
Kanahooka · 2 schools
24th · 942
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 Kanahooka

Break-ins, car theft and malicious damage run at 1,119 per 100,000 residents in postcode 2530, 25.5% 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 2530 (12m)
1,886
Break-ins, car theft and malicious damage · incidents per 100,000 residents
Postcode 2530 (Kanahooka + neighbours)
1,119
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 Kanahooka.
  • 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 Kanahooka

The most recent house sales on record in Kanahooka are from 2026, 30 of them. Search a street to see what it has been fetching.

Kanahooka Road2026$3.30M
Kanahooka Road2026$2.96M
Rushton Drive2026$1.82M
Kanahooka Road2026$1.32M
Saltwater Circuit2026$1.28M
Shiral Avenue2026$1.20M
Saltwater Circuit2026$1.19M
William Beach Road2026$1.12M
Thirroul Road2026$1.10M
Brooks Terrace2026$1.10M
Kanahooka Road2026$1.08M
Burrows Avenue2026$1.06M

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 Kanahooka

Kanahooka's median house price of $925,000 is the 33rd highest of the 66 Illawarra & South Coast suburbs we cover.

All Illawarra & South Coast suburb research

Kanahooka: common questions

What is the median house price in Kanahooka?
$925,000, based on 155 house sales over the 24 months to July 2026 (NSW Valuer General records).
What are the most and least expensive streets in Kanahooka?
Of the 34 Kanahooka streets that qualify for the five-year ranking, Rondanella Drive has the highest house median at $1,452,475 (6 sales); Ashmore Crescent has the lowest at $700,000 (11 sales).
How much have Kanahooka property prices grown?
A repeat-sales index of Kanahooka dwellings has risen 89.6% over 10 years and moved +38.8% over 5 years.
What does it cost to rent in Kanahooka?
The median 3-bedroom house in postcode 2530 rents for $690/wk, from 230 bonds lodged in the last 12 months.
Which public schools serve Kanahooka?
Hayes Park Public School (primary, zoned for 98% of homes); Koonawarra Public School (primary, zoned for 2% of homes); Kanahooka High School (secondary).
Is Kanahooka affected by bushfire or flood risk?
0.5% 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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