Leichhardt (NSW 2040): property prices, streets & suburb profile

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

Leichhardt · NSW 2040 · median house price (24 months)
$2,137,500+70.2%
vs 10 years ago (repeat-sales index, all dwellings)
Leichhardt has about 5,945 dwellings on record, with 430 house and 283 unit sales recorded in the last two years across 89 streets.
Median house price
$2,137,500
430 sales, 24 months
Median unit price
$980,000
283 strata sales, 24 months
Median rent, 3-br house
$1,150/wk
157 bonds, 12 months
Gross rental yield
2.8%
3-br postcode rent vs house median
How tightly held
1 in 17
homes on record trades each year
Nearest station
Lilyfield Light Rail Stop
Light rail, 0.5 km away

Leichhardt house and unit prices

The median Leichhardt house sold for $2,137,500 across the last 24 months; constant-quality growth is +70.2% over 10 years and +29.8% over 5 years.

Property type
1Y
3Y
5Y
10Y
Houses
+9.8%
+27.1%
+36.4%
+75.8%
Units
+0.5%
-1.8%
+7.1%
-1.0%

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
Leichhardt
$2,250,000
Inner West LGA
$2,315,500
NSW
$1,100,000
Houses (quarterly median)
Units (yearly median)
855k1.25M1.65M2.04M2.44M20172019202120232025
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PeriodHouses (quarterly median)Units (yearly median)
July 2015$1,280,000
Oct 2015$1,245,000
2016$1,250,000$850,000
Apr 2016$1,297,500
July 2016$1,392,500
Oct 2016$1,520,000
2017$1,550,000$1,022,000
Apr 2017$1,650,000
July 2017$1,554,250
Oct 2017$1,466,250
2018$1,600,000$900,000
Apr 2018$1,424,000
July 2018$1,325,000
Oct 2018$1,275,000
2019$1,240,000$903,000
Apr 2019$1,260,000
July 2019$1,410,000
Oct 2019$1,533,000
2020$1,527,500$970,000
Apr 2020$1,580,000
July 2020$1,482,500
Oct 2020$1,575,000
2021$1,675,000$975,000
Apr 2021$1,830,000
July 2021$1,940,000
Oct 2021$1,910,000
2022$1,827,500$982,500
Apr 2022$1,800,000
July 2022$1,750,000
Oct 2022$1,770,000
2023$1,570,000$982,500
Apr 2023$1,892,500
July 2023$1,980,000
Oct 2023$1,970,000
2024$2,043,000$997,500
Apr 2024$2,027,500
July 2024$1,967,500
Oct 2024$1,925,000
2025$2,180,000$975,000
Apr 2025$2,235,000
July 2025$2,324,000
Oct 2025$2,100,000
2026$2,285,000
Apr 2026$2,085,000
  • 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.

Leichhardt street by street

Across the 65 Leichhardt streets that qualify for the ranking, five-year medians run from $1,520,000 on Styles Street to $2,750,000 on Henry Street.

Most expensive street (houses)

Henry Street

$2,750,000 five-year median · 5 sales

Most affordable street (houses)

Styles Street

$1,520,000 five-year median · 17 sales

House sales over the last five years, by price
948 sales
  • under $2.00M
  • $2.00M to $2.25M
  • $2.25M and above

Each dot is one house sale over the last five years, 948 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 64 of the 65 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 65 of them, and the table below has them all.

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Street medians, five years of house sales
StreetMedianSales (5 years)
Henry Street$2.75M5
Marlborough Street$2.70M16
National Street$2.62M6
Whiting Street$2.56M5
Kalgoorlie Street$2.55M7
Lords Road$2.51M6
Wetherill Street$2.50M16
Edith Street$2.48M27
Davies Street$2.46M12
North Street$2.45M16
Albert Street$2.36M14
Burfitt Street$2.35M18
Arthur Street$2.35M15
Myrtle Street$2.33M7
Leichhardt Street$2.33M6
Annesley Street$2.32M19
Day Street$2.28M31
Seale Street$2.27M6
Mackenzie Street$2.23M16
Stanley Street$2.20M7
Charles Street$2.20M21
Francis Street$2.20M25
Waratah Street$2.20M5
Allen Street$2.15M36
Hubert Street$2.13M21
Coleridge Street$2.10M7
Macauley Street$2.10M23
Carlisle Street$2.10M18
Moore Street$2.10M15
North Avenue$2.07M12
William Street$2.06M12
Short Street$2.05M9
Thornley Street$2.01M14
Tebbutt Street$2.01M11
Hill Street$2.00M20
James Street$1.99M27
Daniel Street$1.98M5
South Avenue$1.97M12
Elswick Street$1.95M38
Macquarie Street$1.94M9
Falls Street$1.93M5
Flood Street$1.92M45
Emma Street$1.92M7
Balmain Road$1.90M23
Hearn Street$1.90M5
Norton Street$1.89M26
Foster Street$1.88M23
Cromwell Street$1.85M10
Marion Street$1.83M30
Thorby Avenue$1.82M13
Roseby Street$1.81M8
Hay Street$1.80M15
Catherine Street$1.78M56
Reuss Street$1.76M11
Cary Street$1.75M14
Excelsior Street$1.73M22
Redmond Street$1.71M9
Hathern Street$1.66M6
John Street$1.62M10
Renwick Street$1.61M19
Junior Street$1.60M11
Jarrett Street$1.59M8
Rofe Street$1.57M30
Styles Street$1.52M17
Leichhardt streets with a published median · last 10 years of sales
Athol Street$2.52M53
Marlborough Street$2.36M26
Henry Street$2.23M17$550k9
North Street$2.19M26$1.80M15
National Street$2.15M133
Arthur Street$2.15M21
Edith Street$2.10M45$603k20
Wetherill Street$2.06M29
Albert Street$2.05M253
Stanley Street$2.05M9
Seale Street$2.01M8
Myrtle Street$1.99M121
Daniel Street$1.98M7$1.62M5
Hubert Street$1.98M35$1.20M8
Coleridge Street$1.97M142
Emily Street$1.97M6
Allen Street$1.95M55$1.15M112
Macauley Street$1.93M39$1.21M5
North Avenue$1.91M20
Lords Road$1.90M94
Whiting Street$1.89M9
Mackenzie Street$1.89M28$1.22M7
Burfitt Street$1.88M34$671k23
Lyall Street$1.88M8$1.18M5
Elswick Street$1.88M764
  • 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 Leichhardt

Half of the 430 house sales in the last 24 months landed between $1,750,000 and $2,553,750.

020406080Median $2.14M$1.25M$1.75M$2.25M$2.75M$3.25M$3.50M
Middle 50% of sales: $1.75M – $2.55M
Median $2.14M
395 sales total
  • House sales only, 24 months. The unit median is quoted separately.
  • Chart covers $1,250,000 to $3,500,000: 35 of the 430 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 Leichhardt by bedrooms

A 3-bedroom house rents for a median $1,150/wk.

Median weekly rent · houses
1-bedroom
$600/wk
2-bedroom
$870/wk
3-bedroom
$1,150/wk
4-bedroom
$1,650/wk
Median weekly rent · units
1-bedroom
$600/wk
2-bedroom
$775/wk
3-bedroom
$1,000/wk
  • From NSW rental bond lodgements for postcode 2040 (covers neighbouring suburbs too), 12 months to July 2026.
  • Bands with fewer than 10 bonds are hidden.
  • Biggest 12-month move: 4-bedroom houses +10.4% year on year.

Who lives in Leichhardt

Leichhardt has a median age of 37 and a median household income of $2,673 a week, and 57.9% of homes are owner-occupied.

Population (Leichhardt)
15,158
Median age (Leichhardt)
37 years
Median household income (Leichhardt)
$2,673/wk
People per square kilometre
5,841
Average taxable income (postcode, 2023)
$119,443
Average household size (SA2)
2.3
Median mortgage repayment (SA2)
$3,500/month
Australian-born (postcode)
67.8%
SEIFA advantage decile (Leichhardt)
10 of 10
Rooftop solar installs, 12 months (postcode)
145
How Leichhardt homes are held
Owned outright
23.8% · 1,420
Owned with a mortgage
34.1% · 2,033
Rented
40.4% · 2,405
Leichhardt homes by bedroom count
1 bedroom or studio
12.7% · 755
2 bedrooms
39.8% · 2,357
3 bedrooms
35.4% · 2,099
4 bedrooms
10.2% · 606
5 or more
1.8% · 108
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
9 of 10
Economic resources (IER)from household income, wealth and housing costs
6 of 10
Education and occupation (IEO)from qualifications and skilled work
10 of 10
  • Figures labelled Leichhardt are for the suburb boundary itself (ABS 2021 Census). Anything labelled SA2 or postcode covers a wider area: SA2 "Leichhardt" and postcode 2040 both extend beyond Leichhardt.
  • 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 Leichhardt

0.0% of Leichhardt 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
0.0%
Flood mapping
No flood mapping available in our dataset
Heritage-flagged properties
767
Land zoning of properties
R1 General Residential (84%), E1 Local Centre (10%), E4 General Industrial (3%)
  • 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 Leichhardt

Most Leichhardt homes fall in the Leichhardt Public School intake zone.

Schools located in Leichhardt
Kegworth Public SchoolGovernmentPrimary1,117
Leichhardt Public SchoolGovernmentPrimary1,122
Orange Grove Public SchoolGovernmentPrimary1,132
St Fiacre's Catholic Primary SchoolCatholicPrimary1,151
Sydney Secondary College Leichhardt CampusGovernmentSecondary1,104
Public primary catchment (52% of homes)
Leichhardt Public School
Public primary catchment (26% of homes)
Kegworth Public School
Public secondary catchment (100% of homes)
Sydney Secondary College Blackwattle Bay / Sydney Secondary College Leichhardt
Public secondary catchment (0% of homes)
Sydney Secondary College Balmain / Sydney Secondary College Blackwattle Bay
Median school percentile nationally · ICSEA score
Leichhardt · 5 schools
90th · 1122
Sydney Inner West
87th · 1113
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 Leichhardt

Break-ins, car theft and malicious damage run at 1,671 per 100,000 residents in postcode 2040, 11.3% above the NSW rate of 1,502.

Recorded incidents, Inner West LGA (12m)
11,288
of which assault (LGA)
1,243
of which theft (LGA)
3,954
Recorded incidents, postcode 2040 (12m)
1,257
Break-ins, car theft and malicious damage · incidents per 100,000 residents
Postcode 2040 (Leichhardt + neighbours)
1,671
Inner West LGA
1,576
Sydney Inner West
1,362
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 Leichhardt.
  • 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 Leichhardt

The most recent house sales on record in Leichhardt are from 2026, 60 of them. Search a street to see what it has been fetching.

Coleridge Street2026$4.50M
Edith Street2026$4.20M
Allen Street2026$4.20M
Arthur Street2026$3.50M
Allen Street2026$3.20M
Flood Street2026$2.95M
Marion Street2026$2.90M
Renwick Street2026$2.86M
Whiting Street2026$2.81M
Hill Street2026$2.80M
Allen Street2026$2.77M
Myrtle Street2026$2.72M

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 Leichhardt

Leichhardt's median house price of $2,137,500 is the 24th highest of the 28 Sydney Inner West suburbs we cover.

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Leichhardt: common questions

What is the median house price in Leichhardt?
$2,137,500, based on 430 house sales over the 24 months to July 2026 (NSW Valuer General records).
What are the most and least expensive streets in Leichhardt?
Of the 65 Leichhardt streets that qualify for the five-year ranking, Henry Street has the highest house median at $2,750,000 (5 sales); Styles Street has the lowest at $1,520,000 (17 sales).
How much have Leichhardt property prices grown?
A repeat-sales index of Leichhardt dwellings has risen 70.2% over 10 years and moved +29.8% over 5 years.
What does it cost to rent in Leichhardt?
The median 3-bedroom house in postcode 2040 rents for $1,150/wk, from 157 bonds lodged in the last 12 months.
Which public schools serve Leichhardt?
Leichhardt Public School (primary, zoned for 52% of homes); Kegworth Public School (primary, zoned for 26% of homes); Sydney Secondary College Blackwattle Bay / Sydney Secondary College Leichhardt (secondary, zoned for 100% of homes); Sydney Secondary College Balmain / Sydney Secondary College Blackwattle Bay (secondary, zoned for 0% of homes).
Is Leichhardt affected by bushfire or flood risk?
0.0% 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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