Capital-growth ranking · NSW
The highest growth suburbs in New South Wales.
Suburbs with the strongest annual house price growth over the past 12 months. Filtered to New South Wales suburbs only.
About this ranking
Capital growth is the long-term wealth driver in property, and the gap between top-quartile and bottom-quartile suburbs is enormous. A suburb growing at 8% annually doubles in 9 years; one at 3% takes 24. We rank by 12-month annual house-price growth, with the caveat that recent growth doesn't perfectly predict the next decade.
New South Wales property market in 2026
New South Wales is Australia's most expensive housing market by a wide margin. Sydney's median house price sits around $1.6M to $1.7M in 2026, with a structural undersupply of well-located stock keeping the harbour-city market firm even as borrowing capacity catches up to elevated rates. Regional NSW (Newcastle, Central Coast, Wollongong) has compressed the discount to Sydney over the last five years, and the Hunter and Illawarra now trade at premiums older buyers wouldn't have predicted. Lifestyle suburbs along the coast, Byron, Kiama, Port Macquarie, have held the COVID-era gains. Investor demand is back at scale; rental vacancies in metro Sydney remain below 1.5%.
Showing top 50 suburbs in New South Wales
NSW 2827
Annual growth
+4612.1%
Median price
$2.8M
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NSW 2850
Annual growth
+1220.0%
Median price
$825K
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NSW 2456
Annual growth
+1019.2%
Median price
$728K
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NSW 2190
Annual growth
+1009.2%
Median price
$1.4M
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NSW 2713
Annual growth
+1007.7%
Median price
$3.6M
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NSW 2794
Annual growth
+858.3%
Median price
$1.1M
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NSW 2844
Annual growth
+695.5%
Median price
$875K
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NSW 2669
Annual growth
+675.9%
Median price
$1.1M
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NSW 2534
Annual growth
+597.0%
Median price
$2.3M
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NSW 2330
Annual growth
+591.7%
Median price
$415K
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NSW 2402
Annual growth
+591.4%
Median price
$1.9M
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NSW 2381
Annual growth
+525.0%
Median price
$375K
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NSW 2365
Annual growth
+477.2%
Median price
$3.2M
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NSW 2795
Annual growth
+452.6%
Median price
$525K
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NSW 2446
Annual growth
+405.3%
Median price
$955K
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NSW 2328
Annual growth
+379.4%
Median price
$1.6M
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NSW 2827
Annual growth
+354.5%
Median price
$375K
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NSW 2594
Annual growth
+341.7%
Median price
$265K
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NSW 2831
Annual growth
+340.6%
Median price
$705K
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NSW 2320
Annual growth
+319.9%
Median price
$4.7M
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NSW 2484
Annual growth
+303.8%
Median price
$1.6M
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NSW 2775
Annual growth
+287.1%
Median price
$720K
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NSW 2372
Annual growth
+276.4%
Median price
$998K
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NSW 2250
Annual growth
+262.9%
Median price
$8.0M
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NSW 2324
Annual growth
+260.0%
Median price
$900K
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NSW 2652
Annual growth
+256.3%
Median price
$375K
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NSW 2540
Annual growth
+246.5%
Median price
$1.8M
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NSW 2846
Annual growth
+246.4%
Median price
$728K
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NSW 2537
Annual growth
+243.4%
Median price
$1.4M
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NSW 2454
Annual growth
+240.2%
Median price
$3.3M
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NSW 2469
Annual growth
+240.0%
Median price
$850K
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NSW 2642
Annual growth
+237.9%
Median price
$319K
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NSW 2460
Annual growth
+235.2%
Median price
$1.5M
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NSW 2360
Annual growth
+233.3%
Median price
$1.1M
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NSW 2580
Annual growth
+228.9%
Median price
$2M
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NSW 2652
Annual growth
+226.3%
Median price
$1.6M
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NSW 2429
Annual growth
+220.9%
Median price
$800K
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NSW 2328
Annual growth
+220.0%
Median price
$1.6M
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NSW 2480
Annual growth
+219.5%
Median price
$1.1M
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NSW 2622
Annual growth
+215.2%
Median price
$1.3M
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NSW 2371
Annual growth
+213.2%
Median price
$595K
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NSW 2794
Annual growth
+211.1%
Median price
$700K
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NSW 2756
Annual growth
+210.0%
Median price
$1.6M
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NSW 2790
Annual growth
+204.3%
Median price
$1.7M
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NSW 2381
Annual growth
+200.0%
Median price
$180K
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NSW 2260
Annual growth
+194.7%
Median price
$2.8M
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NSW 2577
Annual growth
+189.8%
Median price
$1.4M
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NSW 2587
Annual growth
+189.5%
Median price
$1.6M
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NSW 2730
Annual growth
+186.9%
Median price
$900K
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NSW 2360
Annual growth
+182.9%
Median price
$580K
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Common questions
About this ranking.
Does last year's growth predict next year's?
Weakly. Top-performing suburbs over rolling 12-month windows tend to revert toward state averages over 5-10 year horizons. The more durable predictors are population growth, infrastructure investment, supply constraint, and yield, not headline growth in the previous year. Use this ranking as a starting point, not a verdict.
Why are some growth numbers so high?
Outer-suburb and growth-corridor markets can show 15%+ annual growth when an under-supplied catchment meets a wave of buyer demand (e.g. Olympic infrastructure, a new train line, or a school catchment opening). These periods can persist for 2-3 years before normalising.
How do I tell sustainable growth from a bubble?
Look at supporting fundamentals: rising population, declining vacancy rates, infrastructure investment, and yields that aren't compressing too aggressively. If growth is happening but yield is staying constant or rising, supply is genuinely constrained. If yield is collapsing as prices rise, you're often looking at speculative inflows.
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