Woolloomooloo (NSW 2011): property prices, streets & suburb profile

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

Woolloomooloo · NSW 2011 · median house price (24 months)
$2,050,000+52.8%
vs 10 years ago (repeat-sales index, all dwellings)
Woolloomooloo has about 2,547 dwellings on record, with 18 house and 162 unit sales recorded in the last two years across 23 streets.
Median house price
$2,050,000
18 sales, 24 months
Median unit price
$1,000,000
162 strata sales, 24 months
How tightly held
1 in 28
homes on record trades each year
Nearest station
Kings Cross Railway Station
Train, 0.5 km away

Woolloomooloo house and unit prices

The median Woolloomooloo house sold for $2,050,000 across the last 24 months; constant-quality growth is +52.8% over 10 years and +22.1% over 5 years.

Property type
1Y
3Y
5Y
10Y
Units
+19.6%
+9.9%
-9.8%
+34.1%

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
Woolloomooloo
$1,825,000
Sydney LGA
$2,300,000
NSW
$1,100,000
Houses (quarterly median)
Units (yearly median)
737k1.51M2.28M3.06M3.83M20162018202020222024
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PeriodHouses (quarterly median)Units (yearly median)
July 2015$1,190,000
Oct 2015$1,210,000
2016$950,000
Apr 2016$1,725,000
Oct 2016$1,587,500
2017$935,000
Oct 2017$1,250,000
2018$937,500
Apr 2018$1,375,000
2019$776,250
July 2019$1,740,000
2020$1,200,000
2021$1,175,000
July 2021$1,900,000
2022$987,500
2023$1,013,000
Oct 2023$2,326,000
2024$1,985,000$1,180,000
July 2024$1,460,000
2025$1,067,500
July 2025$1,700,000
Oct 2025$3,650,000
  • 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.

Woolloomooloo street by street

Across the 4 Woolloomooloo streets that qualify for the ranking, five-year medians run from $1,800,000 on Riley Street to $3,350,000 on Crown Street.

Most expensive street (houses)

Crown Street

$3,350,000 five-year median · 6 sales

Most affordable street (houses)

Riley Street

$1,800,000 five-year median · 5 sales

House sales over the last five years, by price
23 sales
  • under $2.10M
  • $2.10M and above

Each dot is one house sale over the last five years, 23 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.

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Street medians, five years of house sales
StreetMedianSales (5 years)
Crown Street$3.35M6
Dowling Street$2.10M7
Bourke Street$2.03M6
Riley Street$1.80M5
Woolloomooloo streets with a published median · last 10 years of sales
Crown Street$2.77M8$1.42M76
Dowling Street$2.15M8$748k60
Brougham Street$1.94M6$1.68M63
Cathedral Street$1.85M6$650k49
Bourke Street$1.80M13$915k30
Riley Street$1.77M6$2.04M18
Kidmans Terrace$1.35M7
Boomerang Place$775k7
Cowper Wharf Rdwy$1.05M137
Forbes Street3$460k77
Lincoln Crescent$120k5
McElhone Street2$1.25M18
Palmer Street1$1.37M46
Sir John Young Crescent3$981k64
William Street$1.03M59
  • 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.

Rent in Woolloomooloo by bedrooms

Postcode 2011 rental bonds show current market rents by size.

Median weekly rent · houses
1-bedroom
$700/wk
2-bedroom
$1,025/wk
Median weekly rent · units
1-bedroom
$690/wk
2-bedroom
$1,150/wk
3-bedroom
$1,700/wk
  • From NSW rental bond lodgements for postcode 2011 (covers neighbouring suburbs too), 12 months to July 2026.
  • Bands with fewer than 10 bonds are hidden.
  • Biggest 12-month move: 0-bedroom units +12.5% year on year.

Who lives in Woolloomooloo

Woolloomooloo has a median age of 39 and a median household income of $2,001 a week, and 27.0% of homes are owner-occupied.

Population (Woolloomooloo)
3,792
Median age (Woolloomooloo)
39 years
Median household income (Woolloomooloo)
$2,001/wk
People per square kilometre
10,188
Average taxable income (postcode, 2023)
$128,760
Average household size (SA2)
1.5
Median mortgage repayment (SA2)
$2,500/month
Australian-born (postcode)
53.8%
SEIFA advantage decile (Woolloomooloo)
10 of 10
Rooftop solar installs, 12 months (postcode)
3
How Woolloomooloo homes are held
Owned outright
13.1% · 252
Owned with a mortgage
13.9% · 268
Rented
70.6% · 1,359
Woolloomooloo homes by bedroom count
1 bedroom or studio
39.7% · 752
2 bedrooms
37.9% · 717
3 bedrooms
18.0% · 340
4 bedrooms
3.4% · 65
5 or more
1.1% · 20
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 Woolloomooloo are for the suburb boundary itself (ABS 2021 Census). Anything labelled SA2 or postcode covers a wider area: SA2 "Potts Point - Woolloomooloo" and postcode 2011 both extend beyond Woolloomooloo.
  • 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 Woolloomooloo

0.0% of Woolloomooloo 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
2,108
Land zoning of properties
R1 General Residential (56%), MU1 Mixed Use (44%), E1 Local Centre (1%)
  • 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 Woolloomooloo

Most Woolloomooloo homes fall in the Plunkett Street Public School intake zone.

Schools located in Woolloomooloo
Plunkett Street Public SchoolGovernmentPrimary968
Sydney Distance Education High SchoolGovernmentSecondary1,032
Public primary catchment
Plunkett Street Public School
Public secondary catchment
Inner Sydney High School
Median school percentile nationally · ICSEA score
Woolloomooloo · 2 schools
46th · 1000
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 Woolloomooloo

Break-ins, car theft and malicious damage run at 1,540 per 100,000 residents in postcode 2011, about the same as the NSW rate.

Recorded incidents, Sydney LGA (12m)
41,715
of which assault (LGA)
4,339
of which theft (LGA)
13,240
Recorded incidents, postcode 2011 (12m)
3,665
Break-ins, car theft and malicious damage · incidents per 100,000 residents
Postcode 2011 (Woolloomooloo + neighbours)
1,540
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 Woolloomooloo.
  • 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 Woolloomooloo

The most recent house sales on record in Woolloomooloo are from 2026, 2 of them. Search a street to see what it has been fetching.

Dowling Street2026$3.10M
Crown Street2026$2.25M
Bourke Street2025$1.85M
Riley Street2025$1.80M
Crown Street2024$3.40M
Dowling Street2024$2.85M
Bourke Street2024$2.80M
Dowling Street2024$2.10M
Riley Street2024$1.87M
Crown Street2023$3.40M
Crown Street2023$3.30M
Dowling Street2023$2.42M

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 Woolloomooloo

Woolloomooloo's median house price of $2,050,000 is the 12th highest of the 18 Sydney City & Inner suburbs we cover.

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Woolloomooloo: common questions

What is the median house price in Woolloomooloo?
$2,050,000, based on 18 house sales over the 24 months to June 2026 (NSW Valuer General records).
What are the most and least expensive streets in Woolloomooloo?
Of the 4 Woolloomooloo streets that qualify for the five-year ranking, Crown Street has the highest house median at $3,350,000 (6 sales); Riley Street has the lowest at $1,800,000 (5 sales).
How much have Woolloomooloo property prices grown?
A repeat-sales index of Woolloomooloo dwellings has risen 52.8% over 10 years and moved +22.1% over 5 years.
Which public schools serve Woolloomooloo?
Plunkett Street Public School (primary); Inner Sydney High School (secondary).
Is Woolloomooloo 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.