Lithgow (NSW 2790): property prices, streets & suburb profile

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

Lithgow · NSW 2790 · median house price (24 months)
$527,500+102.2%
vs 10 years ago (repeat-sales index, all dwellings)
Lithgow has about 4,017 dwellings on record, with 395 house and 19 unit sales recorded in the last two years across 89 streets.
Median house price
$527,500
395 sales, 24 months
Median unit price
$435,000
19 strata sales, 24 months
Median rent, 3-br house
$460/wk
171 bonds, 12 months
Gross rental yield
4.5%
3-br postcode rent vs house median
How tightly held
1 in 19
homes on record trades each year
Nearest train station
Bowenfels Railway Station
1.9 km away

Lithgow house and unit prices

The median Lithgow house sold for $527,500 across the last 24 months; constant-quality growth is +102.2% over 10 years and +44.0% over 5 years.

1Y
3Y
5Y
10Y
Houses
+9.0%
+11.1%
+54.1%
+115.3%

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
Lithgow
$550,000
Lithgow LGA
$555,000
NSW
$1,100,000
Houses (quarterly median)
Units (yearly median)
248k348k448k548k648k20172019202120232025
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PeriodHouses (quarterly median)Units (yearly median)
July 2015$250,000
Oct 2015$250,000
2016$277,000$322,500
Apr 2016$261,000
July 2016$268,750
Oct 2016$307,750
2017$285,000$272,500
Apr 2017$308,750
July 2017$333,000
Oct 2017$322,500
2018$350,000$309,500
Apr 2018$355,000
July 2018$360,000
Oct 2018$307,500
2019$315,000$330,000
Apr 2019$350,000
July 2019$311,000
Oct 2019$310,000
2020$332,500$265,000
Apr 2020$317,000
July 2020$347,500
Oct 2020$360,000
2021$350,000$287,500
Apr 2021$369,500
July 2021$412,500
Oct 2021$460,000
2022$470,000$481,250
Apr 2022$500,000
July 2022$490,000
Oct 2022$474,750
2023$502,500$417,500
Apr 2023$475,000
July 2023$465,000
Oct 2023$473,000
2024$617,500$455,000
Apr 2024$492,500
July 2024$475,000
Oct 2024$550,000
2025$504,500$379,000
Apr 2025$517,500
July 2025$537,500
Oct 2025$560,000
2026$510,000
Apr 2026$550,000
  • 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 slightly.
  • 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.

Lithgow street by street

Across 68 streets with enough house sales to compare, five-year medians on actively trading streets run from $375,000 on Young Street to $775,000 on Blaxland Street.

Most expensive street (houses)

Blaxland Street

$775,000 five-year median · 5 sales

Most affordable street (houses)

Young Street

$375,000 five-year median · 6 sales

Lithgow streets with a published median · last 10 years of sales
StreetHouse medianHouse salesUnit medianUnit sales
Lithgow Street$740k7——
Ordnance Avenue$685k23——
Curtin Place$660k11——
Henderson Place$650k10——
Mortlock Close$611k8——
Boronia Street$610k6——
Hill Range Crescent$600k17——
Blaxland Street$580k10——
Shaft Street$580k5——
Eddy Street$555k8——
Wattle Grove$550k7——
Padley Street$545k14——
Malvern Street$520k19——
Heffernan Place$514k13——
Hassans Walls Road$500k65——
James Street$500k5——
High Street$490k13$493k12
Maple Crescent$488k12——
Methven Street$480k20——
Main Street$473k44——
John Street$465k15——
Wrights Road$465k49——
Albert Street$463k8——
Finlay Avenue$456k14——
Amiens Street$450k23——
  • 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. Rankings use house sales only, so unit-heavy streets and residential parks are not mislabelled as cheap streets.
  • The highlight cards quote each street's last-5-years median (at least 5 sales in that window), so they reflect prices a buyer could pay now; the table shows the full 10-year view.
  • Prices are as-paid and not inflation-adjusted.

What buyers paid in Lithgow

Half of the 395 house sales in the last 24 months landed between $445,000 and $610,000.

017335066Median $528k$350k$450k$550k$650k$750k$850k
Middle 50% of sales: $445k – $610k
Median $528k
365 sales total
  • House sales only, 24 months. The unit median has its own figure at the top of the page.
  • Chart covers $350,000 to $850,000: 30 of the 395 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 Lithgow by bedrooms

A 3-bedroom house rents for a median $460/wk.

Median weekly rent · houses
1-bedroom
$350/wk
2-bedroom
$400/wk
3-bedroom
$460/wk
4-bedroom
$570/wk
Median weekly rent · units
1-bedroom
$300/wk
2-bedroom
$330/wk
  • From NSW rental bond lodgements for postcode 2790 (covers neighbouring suburbs too), 12 months to July 2026.
  • Bands with fewer than 10 bonds are hidden.
  • Biggest 12-month move: 1-bedroom houses +40.0% year on year.

Who lives in Lithgow

Lithgow has a median age of 49 and a median household income of $1,010 a week, and 61.7% of homes are owner-occupied.

Population (Lithgow)
4,956
Median age (Lithgow)
49 years
Median household income (Lithgow)
$1,010/wk
People per square kilometre
829
Average taxable income (postcode, 2023)
$69,975
Average household size (SA2)
2.2
Median mortgage repayment (SA2)
$1,462/month
Australian-born (postcode)
81.5%
SEIFA advantage decile (Lithgow)
1 of 10
Rooftop solar installs, 12 months (postcode)
161
How Lithgow homes are held
Owned outright
39.1% · 887
Owned with a mortgage
22.6% · 511
Rented
34.6% · 784
Lithgow homes by bedroom count
1 bedroom or studio
4.7% · 104
2 bedrooms
27.3% · 599
3 bedrooms
51.0% · 1,120
4 bedrooms
14.2% · 313
5 or more
2.8% · 62
ABS SEIFA 2021 deciles · 10 of 10 = most advantaged nationally
Advantage and disadvantage (IRSAD)
from income, education, occupation and housing
1 of 10
Relative disadvantage (IRSD)
from low income, low education and unskilled occupations
1 of 10
Economic resources (IER)
from household income, wealth and housing costs
1 of 10
Education and occupation (IEO)
from qualifications and skilled work
1 of 10
  • Figures labelled Lithgow are for the suburb boundary itself (ABS 2021 Census). Anything labelled SA2 or postcode covers a wider area: SA2 "Lithgow" and postcode 2790 both extend beyond Lithgow.
  • 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 Lithgow

9.5% of Lithgow 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
9.5%
Flood mapping
No flood mapping available in our dataset
Heritage-flagged properties
1,109
Land zoning of properties
R1 General Residential (70%), E1 Local Centre (23%), R2 Low Density Residential (4%)
  • 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 Lithgow

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

Schools located in Lithgow
SchoolSectorTypeICSEA
Cooerwull Public SchoolGovernmentPrimary906
La Salle Academy LithgowCatholicSecondary980
Lithgow High SchoolGovernmentSecondary918
Lithgow Public SchoolGovernmentPrimary919
St Patrick's Catholic Primary School LithgowCatholicPrimary993
Zig Zag Public SchoolGovernmentPrimary934
Public primary catchment (64% of homes)
Lithgow Public School
Public primary catchment (27% of homes)
Cooerwull Public School
Public secondary catchment
Lithgow High School
Median school percentile nationally · ICSEA score
Lithgow · 6 schools
17th · 926
Lithgow LGA
16th · 922
Blue Mountains
66th · 1044
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 Lithgow

Break-ins, car theft and malicious damage run at 2,181 per 100,000 residents in postcode 2790, 45.2% above the NSW rate of 1,502.

Recorded incidents, Lithgow LGA (12m)
2,059
of which assault (LGA)
302
of which theft (LGA)
510
Recorded incidents, postcode 2790 (12m)
1,668
Break-ins, car theft and malicious damage · incidents per 100,000 residents
Postcode 2790 (Lithgow + neighbours)
2,181
Lithgow LGA
2,107
Blue Mountains
1,089
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 Lithgow.
  • 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.

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Lithgow: common questions

What is the median house price in Lithgow?
$527,500, based on 395 house sales over the 24 months to July 2026 (NSW Valuer General records).
What are the most and least expensive streets in Lithgow?
Among streets with enough sales in the last five years, Blaxland Street has the highest house median at $775,000 (5 sales); Young Street has the lowest at $375,000 (6 sales).
How much have Lithgow property prices grown?
A repeat-sales index of Lithgow dwellings has risen 102.2% over 10 years and moved +44.0% over 5 years.
What does it cost to rent in Lithgow?
The median 3-bedroom house in postcode 2790 rents for $460/wk, from 171 bonds lodged in the last 12 months.
Which public schools serve Lithgow?
Lithgow Public School (public primary catchment (64% of homes)); Cooerwull Public School (public primary catchment (27% of homes)); Lithgow High School (public secondary catchment).
Is Lithgow affected by bushfire or flood risk?
9.5% 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

This page summarises public government datasets for general information. It is not financial, legal or property advice, figures can contain source errors, and postcode or SA2 statistics cover a wider area than the suburb itself. Verify anything material independently before acting on it.