Thirroul (NSW 2515): property prices, streets & suburb profile

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

Thirroul · NSW 2515 · median house price (24 months)
$1,870,000+108.1%
vs 10 years ago (repeat-sales index, all dwellings)
Thirroul has about 2,381 dwellings on record, with 157 house and 69 unit sales recorded in the last two years across 72 streets.
Median house price
$1,870,000
157 sales, 24 months
Median unit price
$1,180,000
69 strata sales, 24 months
Median rent, 3-br house
$980/wk
69 bonds, 12 months
Gross rental yield
2.7%
3-br postcode rent vs house median
How tightly held
1 in 21
homes on record trades each year
Nearest station
Thirroul Railway Station
Train, 1.1 km away

Thirroul house and unit prices

The median Thirroul house sold for $1,870,000 across the last 24 months; constant-quality growth is +108.1% over 10 years and +40.5% over 5 years.

Property type
1Y
3Y
5Y
10Y
Houses
+4.4%
+1.1%
+25.3%
+88.9%
Units
+8.9%
+9.7%
+37.4%
+72.7%

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

Median house price · 12 months to June 2026
Thirroul
$1,880,000
Wollongong LGA
$1,190,000
NSW
$1,100,000
Houses (quarterly median)
Units (yearly median)
698k1.12M1.53M1.95M2.37M20172019202120232025
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PeriodHouses (quarterly median)Units (yearly median)
July 2015$1,085,000
Oct 2015$995,000
2016$805,000$635,000
Apr 2016$982,500
July 2016$1,045,000
Oct 2016$1,111,250
2017$1,073,000$880,000
Apr 2017$1,105,500
July 2017$1,237,500
Oct 2017$1,295,000
2018$1,065,000$850,500
Apr 2018$1,156,250
July 2018$1,265,000
Oct 2018$1,210,500
2019$1,010,000$735,000
Apr 2019$1,080,000
July 2019$1,160,000
Oct 2019$1,328,500
2020$1,300,000$835,000
Apr 2020$1,375,000
July 2020$1,390,000
Oct 2020$1,350,500
2021$1,850,000$1,110,000
Apr 2021$1,850,000
July 2021$1,950,000
Oct 2021$2,100,000
2022$2,175,000$1,215,000
Apr 2022$2,002,500
July 2022$1,790,000
Oct 2022$1,860,000
2023$1,675,000$1,020,000
Apr 2023$2,100,000
July 2023$1,997,500
Oct 2023$1,662,500
2024$1,800,000$1,160,000
Apr 2024$1,772,500
July 2024$2,255,000
Oct 2024$1,750,000
2025$1,838,000$1,165,000
Apr 2025$1,619,500
July 2025$1,950,000
Oct 2025$2,000,000
2026$1,900,000
Apr 2026$1,757,500
  • 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.

Thirroul street by street

Across the 33 Thirroul streets that qualify for the ranking, five-year medians run from $1,307,500 on Princes Highway to $3,300,000 on The Esplanade.

Most expensive street (houses)

The Esplanade

$3,300,000 five-year median · 5 sales

Most affordable street (houses)

Princes Highway

$1,307,500 five-year median · 24 sales

House sales over the last five years, by price
249 sales
  • under $1.75M
  • $1.75M to $2.00M
  • $2.00M and above

Each dot is one house sale over the last five years, 249 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 28 of the 33 ranked streets, leaving off 5 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 33 of them, and the table below has them all.

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Street medians, five years of house sales
StreetMedianSales (5 years)
Station Street$2.91M6
Woodland Avenue$2.52M5
McCauley Street$2.26M14
Raymond Road$2.17M5
Brickworks Avenue$2.10M6
Mason Street$2.00M6
Robinsville Crescent$1.98M16
Hewitts Avenue$1.96M8
Arthur Street$1.90M6
Soudan Street$1.88M8
High Street$1.87M15
Pass Avenue$1.86M15
Fords Road$1.85M14
Nardoo Crescent$1.85M5
Lawrence Hargrave Drive$1.82M25
Deborah Avenue$1.80M6
Kanangra Drive$1.80M9
Phillip Street$1.75M9
Lachlan Street$1.75M11
Mount Gilead Road$1.74M6
Armagh Parade$1.74M14
George Street$1.71M13
Cornock Avenue$1.70M7
Cochrane Road$1.66M8
Sea Foam Avenue$1.60M9
Arunta Drive$1.54M8
Virginia Terrace$1.50M7
Princes Highway$1.31M24
Thirroul streets with a published median · last 10 years of sales
Tasman Parade$3.30M5
Woodland Avenue$2.90M9
Cliff Parade$2.83M6
Station Street$2.75M9$1.00M11
The Esplanade$2.75M7$900k21
Corbett Avenue$2.71M6
Harbord Street$2.70M7$1.12M12
Ocean Street$2.47M8$950k13
Seabreeze Place$2.42M53
Brickworks Avenue$2.10M7
McCauley Street$2.00M21$1.40M15
Redman Avenue$1.98M26$880k24
Kilncar Crescent$1.95M8
The Lookout$1.80M124
Arthur Street$1.77M101
Hewitts Avenue$1.73M12
Deborah Avenue$1.68M8
Treetop Glen$1.67M14
Bath Street$1.63M13$796k10
Raymond Road$1.61M8$913k12
The Waves$1.59M20
Palmyra Avenue$1.59M6
Mount Gilead Road$1.58M12
High Street$1.56M261
Phillip Street$1.56M181
  • 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 Thirroul

Half of the 157 house sales in the last 24 months landed between $1,580,000 and $2,400,000.

08162432Median $1.87M$1.00M$1.50M$2.00M$2.50M$3.00M$3.50M
Middle 50% of sales: $1.58M – $2.40M
Median $1.87M
148 sales total
  • House sales only, 24 months. The unit median is quoted separately.
  • Chart covers $1,000,000 to $3,500,000: 9 of the 157 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 Thirroul by bedrooms

A 3-bedroom house rents for a median $980/wk.

Median weekly rent · houses
2-bedroom
$728/wk
3-bedroom
$980/wk
4-bedroom
$1,250/wk
Median weekly rent · units
1-bedroom
$520/wk
2-bedroom
$655/wk
  • From NSW rental bond lodgements for postcode 2515 (covers neighbouring suburbs too), 12 months to July 2026.
  • Bands with fewer than 10 bonds are hidden.
  • Biggest 12-month move: 3-bedroom townhouses +30.8% year on year.

Who lives in Thirroul

Thirroul has a median age of 43 and a median household income of $2,281 a week, and 77.5% of homes are owner-occupied.

Population (Thirroul)
6,348
Median age (Thirroul)
43 years
Median household income (Thirroul)
$2,281/wk
People per square kilometre
1,308
Average taxable income (postcode, 2023)
$100,456
Average household size (SA2)
2.7
Median mortgage repayment (SA2)
$2,600/month
Australian-born (postcode)
80.7%
SEIFA advantage decile (Thirroul)
10 of 10
Rooftop solar installs, 12 months (postcode)
179
How Thirroul homes are held
Owned outright
40.8% · 937
Owned with a mortgage
36.7% · 843
Rented
19.8% · 456
Thirroul homes by bedroom count
1 bedroom or studio
3.0% · 69
2 bedrooms
17.9% · 406
3 bedrooms
41.4% · 939
4 bedrooms
28.3% · 642
5 or more
9.4% · 214
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
10 of 10
Economic resources (IER)from household income, wealth and housing costs
9 of 10
Education and occupation (IEO)from qualifications and skilled work
10 of 10
  • Figures labelled Thirroul are for the suburb boundary itself (ABS 2021 Census). Anything labelled SA2 or postcode covers a wider area: SA2 "Thirroul - Austinmer - Coalcliff" and postcode 2515 both extend beyond Thirroul.
  • 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 Thirroul

7.3% of Thirroul 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
7.3%
Flood mapping
No flood mapping available in our dataset
Heritage-flagged properties
35
Land zoning of properties
R2 Low Density Residential (69%), R3 Medium Density Residential (22%), E1 Local Centre (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 Thirroul

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

Schools located in Thirroul
St Michael's Catholic Primary SchoolCatholicPrimary1,130
Thirroul Public SchoolGovernmentPrimary1,119
Public primary catchment (96% of homes)
Thirroul Public School
Public primary catchment (3% of homes)
Austinmer Public School
Public secondary catchment
Bulli High School
Median school percentile nationally · ICSEA score
Thirroul · 2 schools
90th · 1124
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 Thirroul

Break-ins, car theft and malicious damage run at 1,277 per 100,000 residents in postcode 2515, 15.0% 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 2515 (12m)
566
Break-ins, car theft and malicious damage · incidents per 100,000 residents
Postcode 2515 (Thirroul + neighbours)
1,277
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 Thirroul.
  • 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 Thirroul

The most recent house sales on record in Thirroul are from 2026, 16 of them. Search a street to see what it has been fetching.

Station Street2026$2.33M
Soudan Street2026$2.30M
George Street2026$1.89M
Kanangra Drive2026$1.80M
Soudan Street2026$1.72M
Arunta Drive2026$1.70M
Soudan Street2026$1.65M
Fords Road2026$1.61M
High Street2026$1.55M
Fords Road2026$1.42M
Mason Street2026$1.40M
Armagh Parade2026$1.39M

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 Thirroul

Thirroul's median house price of $1,870,000 is the highest of the 66 Illawarra & South Coast suburbs we cover.

All Illawarra & South Coast suburb research

Thirroul: common questions

What is the median house price in Thirroul?
$1,870,000, based on 157 house sales over the 24 months to June 2026 (NSW Valuer General records).
What are the most and least expensive streets in Thirroul?
Of the 33 Thirroul streets that qualify for the five-year ranking, The Esplanade has the highest house median at $3,300,000 (5 sales); Princes Highway has the lowest at $1,307,500 (24 sales).
How much have Thirroul property prices grown?
A repeat-sales index of Thirroul dwellings has risen 108.1% over 10 years and moved +40.5% over 5 years.
What does it cost to rent in Thirroul?
The median 3-bedroom house in postcode 2515 rents for $980/wk, from 69 bonds lodged in the last 12 months.
Which public schools serve Thirroul?
Thirroul Public School (primary, zoned for 96% of homes); Austinmer Public School (primary, zoned for 3% of homes); Bulli High School (secondary).
Is Thirroul affected by bushfire or flood risk?
7.3% 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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