Rutherford (NSW 2320): property prices, streets & suburb profile

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

Rutherford · NSW 2320 · median house price (24 months)
$750,000+114.7%
vs 10 years ago (repeat-sales index, all dwellings)
Rutherford has about 5,922 dwellings on record, with 619 house and 115 unit sales recorded in the last two years across 195 streets.
Median house price
$750,000
619 sales, 24 months
Median unit price
$595,000
115 strata sales, 24 months
Median rent, 3-br house
$600/wk
395 bonds, 12 months
Gross rental yield
4.2%
3-br postcode rent vs house median
How tightly held
1 in 16
homes on record trades each year
Nearest train station
Telarah Railway Station
0.7 km away

Rutherford house and unit prices

The median Rutherford house sold for $750,000 across the last 24 months; constant-quality growth is +114.7% over 10 years and +53.1% over 5 years.

1Y
3Y
5Y
10Y
Houses
+9.0%
+23.6%
+70.7%
+125.3%
Units
-6.8%
+14.9%
+60.9%
+110.1%

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
Rutherford
$785,000
Maitland LGA
$850,000
NSW
$1,100,000
Houses (quarterly median)
Units (yearly median)
273k414k556k698k840k20172019202120232025
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PeriodHouses (quarterly median)Units (yearly median)
July 2015$358,000
Oct 2015$352,000
2016$337,500$272,000
Apr 2016$345,000
July 2016$339,000
Oct 2016$385,000
2017$395,000$287,000
Apr 2017$401,500
July 2017$366,000
Oct 2017$387,000
2018$397,500$330,000
Apr 2018$434,000
July 2018$407,500
Oct 2018$415,000
2019$413,750$355,000
Apr 2019$400,000
July 2019$395,000
Oct 2019$420,000
2020$436,000$351,000
Apr 2020$420,000
July 2020$421,000
Oct 2020$450,000
2021$457,825$415,000
Apr 2021$523,500
July 2021$584,250
Oct 2021$600,000
2022$670,000$473,500
Apr 2022$655,000
July 2022$650,000
Oct 2022$625,000
2023$632,500$530,000
Apr 2023$650,000
July 2023$660,000
Oct 2023$652,500
2024$630,000$536,000
Apr 2024$675,000
July 2024$695,000
Oct 2024$665,000
2025$705,000$610,000
Apr 2025$750,650
July 2025$777,500
Oct 2025$780,000
2026$800,000
Apr 2026$795,000
  • 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.

Rutherford street by street

Across 140 streets with enough house sales to compare, five-year medians on actively trading streets run from $500,000 on Churchill Crescent to $1,017,500 on Boundary Street.

Most expensive street (houses)

Boundary Street

$1,017,500 five-year median · 12 sales

Most affordable street (houses)

Churchill Crescent

$500,000 five-year median · 5 sales

Rutherford streets with a published median · last 10 years of sales
StreetHouse medianHouse salesUnit medianUnit sales
Spitfire Place$1.49M5$520k5
Racecourse Road$1.30M5——
Waterside Close$1.02M7——
Boundary Street$1.00M16——
Riverdale Close$875k7——
Pitch Street$833k5——
Beryl Drive$820k17——
Waterworks Road$815k7$440k8
Midfield Close$750k17——
Bergman Way$748k6$561k5
Conquest Close$725k18——
Tournament Street$720k33——
Centrefield Street$715k23——
Bairds Close$710k9——
Easton Close$710k6——
Kelly Cir$710k31——
Robert Close$705k5——
Dietrich Close$685k9——
Peridot Street$685k9——
Hayworth Street$670k23——
Lisa Place$655k8—1
Aaron Cove$653k8——
Adam Avenue$652k25$455k5
Hawkins Street$650k11$440k5
John Verge Avenue$638k17—3
  • 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 Rutherford

Half of the 619 house sales in the last 24 months landed between $666,500 and $821,500.

0285683111Median $750k$500k$600k$700k$800k$900k$1.00M$1.05M
Middle 50% of sales: $667k – $822k
Median $750k
572 sales total
  • House sales only, 24 months. The unit median has its own figure at the top of the page.
  • Chart covers $500,000 to $1,050,000: 47 of the 619 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 Rutherford by bedrooms

A 3-bedroom house rents for a median $600/wk.

Median weekly rent · houses
1-bedroom
$470/wk
2-bedroom
$505/wk
3-bedroom
$600/wk
4-bedroom
$680/wk
5-bedroom
$835/wk
Median weekly rent · units
1-bedroom
$372/wk
2-bedroom
$500/wk
3-bedroom
$565/wk
  • From NSW rental bond lodgements for postcode 2320 (covers neighbouring suburbs too), 12 months to July 2026.
  • Bands with fewer than 10 bonds are hidden.
  • Biggest 12-month move: 1-bedroom houses +11.9% year on year.

Who lives in Rutherford

Rutherford has a median age of 35 and a median household income of $1,475 a week, and 60.1% of homes are owner-occupied.

Population (Rutherford)
13,091
Median age (Rutherford)
35 years
Median household income (Rutherford)
$1,475/wk
People per square kilometre
972
Average taxable income (postcode, 2023)
$78,516
Average household size (SA2)
2.6
Median mortgage repayment (SA2)
$1,872/month
Australian-born (postcode)
87.1%
SEIFA advantage decile (Rutherford)
2 of 10
Rooftop solar installs, 12 months (postcode)
554
How Rutherford homes are held
Owned outright
24.0% · 1,160
Owned with a mortgage
36.1% · 1,747
Rented
33.8% · 1,635
Rutherford homes by bedroom count
1 bedroom or studio
3.4% · 161
2 bedrooms
13.5% · 647
3 bedrooms
43.6% · 2,085
4 bedrooms
35.6% · 1,703
5 or more
3.9% · 185
ABS SEIFA 2021 deciles · 10 of 10 = most advantaged nationally
Advantage and disadvantage (IRSAD)
from income, education, occupation and housing
2 of 10
Relative disadvantage (IRSD)
from low income, low education and unskilled occupations
2 of 10
Economic resources (IER)
from household income, wealth and housing costs
3 of 10
Education and occupation (IEO)
from qualifications and skilled work
1 of 10
  • Figures labelled Rutherford are for the suburb boundary itself (ABS 2021 Census). Anything labelled SA2 or postcode covers a wider area: SA2 "Maitland" and postcode 2320 both extend beyond Rutherford.
  • 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 Rutherford

5.7% of Rutherford 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
5.7%
Flood mapping
No flood mapping available in our dataset
Heritage-flagged properties
1
Land zoning of properties
R1 General Residential (75%), RE1 Public Recreation (9%), E3 Productivity Support (7%)
  • 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 Rutherford

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

Schools located in Rutherford
SchoolSectorTypeICSEA
Rutherford Public SchoolGovernmentPrimary933
Rutherford Technology High SchoolGovernmentSecondary922
St Paul's Primary SchoolCatholicPrimary996
Public primary catchment (63% of homes)
Rutherford Public School
Public primary catchment (37% of homes)
Telarah Public School
Public secondary catchment (100% of homes)
Rutherfordhs
Public secondary catchment (0% of homes)
Maitland High School
Median school percentile nationally · ICSEA score
Rutherford · 3 schools
19th · 933
Maitland LGA
40th · 984
Newcastle & Hunter
38th · 981
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 Rutherford

Break-ins, car theft and malicious damage run at 2,367 per 100,000 residents in postcode 2320, 57.6% above the NSW rate of 1,502.

Recorded incidents, Maitland LGA (12m)
8,431
of which assault (LGA)
1,167
of which theft (LGA)
2,461
Recorded incidents, postcode 2320 (12m)
4,159
Break-ins, car theft and malicious damage · incidents per 100,000 residents
Postcode 2320 (Rutherford + neighbours)
2,367
Maitland LGA
2,196
Newcastle & Hunter
2,215
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 Rutherford.
  • 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.

Suburbs near Rutherford

Rutherford's median house price of $750,000 is the 3rd highest of the 5 Newcastle & Hunter suburbs we cover.

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Rutherford: common questions

What is the median house price in Rutherford?
$750,000, based on 619 house sales over the 24 months to July 2026 (NSW Valuer General records).
What are the most and least expensive streets in Rutherford?
Among streets with enough sales in the last five years, Boundary Street has the highest house median at $1,017,500 (12 sales); Churchill Crescent has the lowest at $500,000 (5 sales).
How much have Rutherford property prices grown?
A repeat-sales index of Rutherford dwellings has risen 114.7% over 10 years and moved +53.1% over 5 years.
What does it cost to rent in Rutherford?
The median 3-bedroom house in postcode 2320 rents for $600/wk, from 395 bonds lodged in the last 12 months.
Which public schools serve Rutherford?
Rutherford Public School (public primary catchment (63% of homes)); Telarah Public School (public primary catchment (37% of homes)); Rutherfordhs (public secondary catchment (100% of homes)); Maitland High School (public secondary catchment (0% of homes)).
Is Rutherford affected by bushfire or flood risk?
5.7% 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.