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Highest-income suburbs in New South Wales

The suburbs in New South Wales with the highest median weekly household income at the 2021 Census, limited to those with at least 1,000 residents so the median reflects a meaningful sample. This is a factual ranking on a single ABS figure — not a measure of housing affordability, cost of living, or how good a place is to live or visit.

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    Longueville, NSW

    Population 2,116 · Median income $4,894/wk · SEIFA 1198

    Longueville is a tranquil harbourside suburb on the Lower North Shore of Sydney, occupying a peninsula between Tambourine Bay and Woodford Bay on the Lane Cove River, about eight kilometres north of the city. Before settlement it was home to the Cammeraygal people. Its earliest industry was a soap works of the 1830s, but the suburb proper began as a residential area in the 1870s and was formally proclaimed in the 1920s. The name is widely thought to honour the French nobleman the Duc de Longueville, and the main streets are said to be named for his three daughters, Christina, Lucretia and Arabella. Today gracious Victorian and Federation homes line its quiet streets, and a sailing skiff club sits at the peninsula's tip, marking it as one of Sydney's prestigious addresses.

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    Riverview (NSW), NSW

    Population 3,148 · Median income $4,731/wk · SEIFA 1196

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    Greenhills Beach, NSW

    Population 1,375 · Median income $4,704/wk · SEIFA 1205

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    Balgowlah Heights, NSW

    Population 3,546 · Median income $4,687/wk · SEIFA 1202

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    Castlecrag, NSW

    Population 2,965 · Median income $4,675/wk · SEIFA 1195

    Castlecrag is a leafy harbourside suburb on Sydney's lower North Shore, about eight kilometres north of the city centre in the City of Willoughby, almost encircled by the waters of Middle Harbour. It was planned in the 1920s by the architects Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin, the couple who had laid out Canberra, and named after a rocky outcrop above the harbour known locally as Edinburgh Castle. The Griffins conceived it as a model community living in harmony with the bush: houses of local stone with flat roofs and no front fences, roads that follow the land's natural contours, and a generous share of the land kept as leafy reserves. Many of its streets are named for parts of a castle, among them The Bastion, The Rampart and The Parapet, while the main thoroughfare is Edinburgh Road.

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    Clontarf (NSW), NSW

    Population 1,746 · Median income $4,609/wk · SEIFA 1189

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    Willoughby East, NSW

    Population 1,864 · Median income $4,536/wk · SEIFA 1186

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    Point Piper, NSW

    Population 1,334 · Median income $4,530/wk · SEIFA 1184

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    Tamarama, NSW

    Population 1,478 · Median income $4,522/wk · SEIFA 1209

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    Middle Cove, NSW

    Population 1,327 · Median income $4,446/wk · SEIFA 1185

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    North Balgowlah, NSW

    Population 3,816 · Median income $4,212/wk · SEIFA 1184

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    Seaforth (NSW), NSW

    Population 7,384 · Median income $4,184/wk · SEIFA 1181

    Seaforth sits on the northern shore of Sydney, a leafy residential pocket of the Northern Beaches that looks out across Middle Harbour toward Mosman, to which it is joined by the Spit Bridge. The suburb takes its name from Loch Seaforth and Seaforth Island in Scotland, and much of its land was held by Henry Halloran before he subdivided it in 1906. To the west the streets fall away to Sugarloaf Bay, with views over to Northbridge, Castlecrag and Castle Cove, while the bushland of Garigal National Park forms the northern boundary. A heritage-listed library, built in 1887, anchors the older part of the suburb, and a compact shopping district off Sydney Road serves the surrounding homes.

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    Roseville Chase, NSW

    Population 1,618 · Median income $4,026/wk · SEIFA 1194

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    Dover Heights, NSW

    Population 4,044 · Median income $3,877/wk · SEIFA 1186

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    Northbridge (NSW), NSW

    Population 6,493 · Median income $3,874/wk · SEIFA 1181

    Northbridge is a quiet, leafy pocket of Sydney's Lower North Shore, occupying a peninsula that reaches into Middle Harbour and is wrapped by bush and water on three sides. With no through traffic, it keeps an unhurried, village feel within easy reach of the harbour. The suburb takes its name from a sandstone suspension bridge completed in the early eighteen-nineties; built in a romantic Federation Gothic style with medieval flourishes, it is now known as the Long Gully Bridge and remains a local landmark linking the area to Cammeray. Early settlement centred on Fig Tree Point, where Sydney jeweller William Twemlow built a sandstone home cut from stone quarried on the estate. Today Northbridge offers bushland reserves, water views and a relaxed residential character close to Chatswood.

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    Curl Curl, NSW

    Population 2,364 · Median income $3,870/wk · SEIFA 1166

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    Royalla, NSW

    Population 1,063 · Median income $3,655/wk · SEIFA 1140

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    Lilli Pilli (Sutherland Shire - NSW), NSW

    Population 1,405 · Median income $3,625/wk · SEIFA 1167

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    North Curl Curl, NSW

    Population 4,288 · Median income $3,611/wk · SEIFA 1141

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    Birchgrove, NSW

    Population 3,228 · Median income $3,603/wk · SEIFA 1178

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    Cheltenham (NSW), NSW

    Population 2,166 · Median income $3,573/wk · SEIFA 1173

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    Bella Vista, NSW

    Population 8,384 · Median income $3,518/wk · SEIFA 1167

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    West Pymble, NSW

    Population 5,441 · Median income $3,503/wk · SEIFA 1172

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    Burraneer, NSW

    Population 3,719 · Median income $3,490/wk · SEIFA 1161

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    Clovelly, NSW

    Population 4,887 · Median income $3,474/wk · SEIFA 1188

Rankings are editorial, based on the public data shown on each suburb page. See our methodology.