Waterloo (NSW 2017): property prices, streets & suburb profile

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

Waterloo · NSW 2017 · median house price (24 months)
$1,792,500+20.0%
vs 10 years ago (repeat-sales index, all dwellings)
Waterloo has about 7,025 dwellings on record, with 34 house and 763 unit sales recorded in the last two years across 50 streets.
Median house price
$1,792,500
34 sales, 24 months
Median unit price
$930,000
763 strata sales, 24 months
Median rent, 3-br house
$1,300/wk
39 bonds, 12 months
Gross rental yield
3.8%
3-br postcode rent vs house median
How tightly held
1 in 18
homes on record trades each year
Nearest train station
Green Square Railway Station
0.3 km away

Waterloo house and unit prices

The median Waterloo house sold for $1,792,500 across the last 24 months; constant-quality growth is +20.0% over 10 years and +8.7% over 5 years.

1Y
3Y
5Y
10Y
Houses
-9.3%
+9.3%
+29.5%
+42.5%
Units
+1.6%
+6.4%
+10.0%
+5.4%

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
Waterloo
$1,710,000
Sydney LGA
$2,340,000
NSW
$1,100,000
Houses (quarterly median)
Units (yearly median)
808k1.23M1.66M2.08M2.51M20172019202120232025
View as table
PeriodHouses (quarterly median)Units (yearly median)
July 2015$1,100,000
Oct 2015$1,265,000
2016$875,000
Apr 2016$1,200,000
July 2016$1,132,500
Oct 2016$1,198,000
2017$1,975,000$902,500
July 2017$1,517,500
2018$1,350,000$860,000
July 2018$1,247,500
2019$860,000
July 2019$1,087,500
Oct 2019$2,388,000
2020$850,000
Apr 2020$1,070,000
July 2020$1,150,000
Oct 2020$1,020,000
2021$900,000$900,000
Apr 2021$1,320,000
July 2021$1,481,000
2022$1,366,000$900,000
Apr 2022$1,385,000
July 2022$1,454,000
Oct 2022$1,370,000
2023$890,000
July 2023$1,451,000
Oct 2023$1,690,000
2024$1,825,000$927,000
Apr 2024$1,500,000
July 2024$1,565,000
2025$1,667,500$935,000
Apr 2025$1,950,000
July 2025$1,892,500
Oct 2025$1,800,000
2026$1,530,000
Apr 2026$2,050,000
  • 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.

Waterloo street by street

Across 12 streets with enough house sales to compare, five-year medians on actively trading streets run from $1,213,750 on John Street to $1,823,000 on Elizabeth Street.

Most expensive street (houses)

Elizabeth Street

$1,823,000 five-year median · 16 sales

Most affordable street (houses)

John Street

$1,213,750 five-year median · 6 sales

Waterloo streets with a published median · last 10 years of sales
StreetHouse medianHouse salesUnit medianUnit sales
Douglas Street$1.71M6——
Kellick Street$1.67M6—3
Pitt Street$1.63M7$753k56
Walker Street$1.63M10——
Raglan Street$1.63M7—1
Bourke Street$1.55M5$823k240
Elizabeth Street$1.52M30$975k315
Morehead Street$1.45M7—3
Lenton Parade$1.40M7——
Wellington Street$1.37M31$710k34
Kensington Street$1.28M10$825k22
John Street$1.19M11——
Allen Street——$968k44
Amelia Street——$867k42
Archibald Avenue——$970k176
Botany Road—2$916k116
Broome Street——$913k40
Cooper Street——$641k10
Cope Street—3$903k70
Crescent Street——$783k36
Crystal Street——$920k95
Danks Street——$1.19M172
Dunkerley Place——$1.20M273
Gadigal Avenue——$963k228
George Street——$925k189
  • 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 Waterloo

Half of the 34 house sales in the last 24 months landed between $1,535,000 and $1,998,750.

02579Median $1.79M$1.00M$1.50M$2.00M$2.50M
Middle 50% of sales: $1.53M – $2.00M
Median $1.79M
30 sales total
  • House sales only, 24 months. The unit median has its own figure at the top of the page.
  • Chart covers $1,000,000 to $2,500,000: 4 of the 34 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 Waterloo by bedrooms

A 3-bedroom house rents for a median $1,300/wk.

Median weekly rent · houses
1-bedroom
$800/wk
2-bedroom
$1,175/wk
3-bedroom
$1,300/wk
4-bedroom
$1,525/wk
Median weekly rent · units
1-bedroom
$850/wk
2-bedroom
$1,200/wk
3-bedroom
$1,550/wk
4-bedroom
$1,770/wk
  • From NSW rental bond lodgements for postcode 2017 (covers neighbouring suburbs too), 12 months to July 2026.
  • Bands with fewer than 10 bonds are hidden.
  • Biggest 12-month move: 2-bedroom houses +15.2% year on year.

Who lives in Waterloo

Waterloo has a median age of 33 and a median household income of $2,028 a week, and 23.9% of homes are owner-occupied.

Population (Waterloo)
16,379
Median age (Waterloo)
33 years
Median household income (Waterloo)
$2,028/wk
People per square kilometre
14,445
Average taxable income (postcode, 2023)
$89,670
Average household size (SA2)
1.8
Median mortgage repayment (SA2)
$2,500/month
Australian-born (postcode)
35.1%
SEIFA advantage decile (Waterloo)
10 of 10
Rooftop solar installs, 12 months (postcode)
12
How Waterloo homes are held
Owned outright
6.2% · 495
Owned with a mortgage
17.8% · 1,431
Rented
72.7% · 5,846
Waterloo homes by bedroom count
1 bedroom or studio
31.5% · 2,485
2 bedrooms
53.4% · 4,213
3 bedrooms
13.6% · 1,074
4 bedrooms
1.3% · 101
5 or more
0.2% · 18
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
3 of 10
Economic resources (IER)
from household income, wealth and housing costs
1 of 10
Education and occupation (IEO)
from qualifications and skilled work
10 of 10
  • Figures labelled Waterloo are for the suburb boundary itself (ABS 2021 Census). Anything labelled SA2 or postcode covers a wider area: SA2 "Waterloo" and postcode 2017 both extend beyond Waterloo.
  • 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 Waterloo

0.0% of Waterloo 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
577
Land zoning of properties
MU1 Mixed Use (72%), R1 General Residential (23%), E1 Local Centre (5%)
  • 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 Waterloo

Most Waterloo homes fall in the Green Square Public School intake zone.

Schools located in Waterloo
SchoolSectorTypeICSEA
Our Lady of Mount Carmel Catholic Primary SchoolCatholicPrimary938
Yudi Gunyi SchoolGovernmentSpecial890
Public primary catchment (57% of homes)
Green Square Public School
Public primary catchment (43% of homes)
Alexandria Park Cs
Public secondary catchment
Alexandria Park Cs
Median school percentile nationally · ICSEA score
Waterloo · 1 school
20th · 938
Sydney LGA
90th · 1125
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 Waterloo

Break-ins, car theft and malicious damage run at 2,793 per 100,000 residents in postcode 2017, 86.0% above the NSW rate of 1,502.

Recorded incidents, Sydney LGA (12m)
41,715
of which assault (LGA)
4,339
of which theft (LGA)
13,240
Recorded incidents, postcode 2017 (12m)
3,049
Break-ins, car theft and malicious damage · incidents per 100,000 residents
Postcode 2017 (Waterloo + neighbours)
2,793
Sydney LGA
2,415
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 Waterloo.
  • 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 Waterloo

Waterloo's median house price of $1,792,500 is the lowest of the 3 Sydney City & Inner suburbs we cover.

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Waterloo: common questions

What is the median house price in Waterloo?
$1,792,500, based on 34 house sales over the 24 months to July 2026 (NSW Valuer General records).
What are the most and least expensive streets in Waterloo?
Among streets with enough sales in the last five years, Elizabeth Street has the highest house median at $1,823,000 (16 sales); John Street has the lowest at $1,213,750 (6 sales).
How much have Waterloo property prices grown?
A repeat-sales index of Waterloo dwellings has risen 20.0% over 10 years and moved +8.7% over 5 years.
What does it cost to rent in Waterloo?
The median 3-bedroom house in postcode 2017 rents for $1,300/wk, from 39 bonds lodged in the last 12 months.
Which public schools serve Waterloo?
Green Square Public School (public primary catchment (57% of homes)); Alexandria Park Cs (public primary catchment (43% of homes)); Alexandria Park Cs (public secondary catchment).
Is Waterloo 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

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.