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ABS 2021 Census · Updated 21 May 2026
Lucas Heights is an outer-metropolitan suburb of Sydney, Australia, with a population of approximately 4, making it a boutique locality. Located approximately 29 km from the Sydney CBD, Lucas Heights is a outer metro area in New South Wales. The median household income is $73,000 per year.
Household incomes in Lucas Heights sit in a comfortable mid-range for the New South Wales market.
Official Australia Post postcode for Lucas Heights. A postcode may cover multiple suburbs.
Australia Post Postcode Finder →Usual resident population at the most recent census.
Weekly median rent for occupied homes. Live rental data integration coming soon.
Annual median household income (before tax) across all households.
Straight-line distance from the suburb centroid to the nearest capital city CBD. Actual driving distance will be longer.
Estimated 1 school within or near this suburb.
Find schools near Lucas Heights on My School →Estimated 1 park and green spaces near this suburb.
Monthly median mortgage repayment for households currently paying off a mortgage.
Proportion of separate houses versus units, townhouses, and other home types. Useful for investors assessing rental demand mix.
Lucas Heights is a smaller community of 4 — about 0% of the New South Wales suburb median (5,325) — so investors should factor in the narrower buyer pool and longer average time-on-market. Lucas Heights's median household income of $73,000/year is 25% below the New South Wales suburb median ($97,552) — this is an affordability play where returns lean on yield and patient capital growth rather than demographic premium. At 29 km from Sydney, Lucas Heights is an outer-metro location where buyers are typically trading commute time for floor space and a lower entry price.
How Lucas Heights stacks up against the median of all New South Wales suburbs in our dataset. Positive values mean Lucas Heights sits above the state median; negative means below.
| Metric | Lucas Heights | NSW median | Δ vs state |
|---|---|---|---|
| Population | 4 | 5,325 | -100% |
| Median household income | $73,000/yr | $97,552/yr | -25% |
| Distance to CBD | 29 km | 45 km | -36% |
Pre-inspection briefing for Lucas Heights — every item is derived from public datasets, with full citations in our data sources page.
Limited buy-and-hold upside: a small population of 4 means liquidity is thin and capital growth tends to lag the wider New South Wales market over full cycles.
Median rental data was not captured for Lucas Heights. Use current realestate.com.au and Domain listings to triangulate a realistic weekly rent before committing, then feed that number into our rental yield calculator.
With a population of 4, the resale market in Lucas Heights may not reliably reward cosmetic renovations — a longer hold is typically a better strategy at this scale, letting land-value appreciation do the work instead.
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Create free account →Capital-growth expectations for Lucas Heights are modest for 2026 — incomes 25% below the NSW median of $97,552 and a population of 4 suggest gains will lag headline metro markets. Rental fundamentals will need to be verified against live listings, as a clean median rent was not recorded for Lucas Heights. The EquitySight investment score of 47/100 places Lucas Heights in the mid tier of Australian suburbs we profile, and overall investor sentiment is cautious heading into the second half of 2026.
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Lucas Heights scores 47/100 on our EquitySight investment framework — a moderate rating. That score is driven by a population of 4, median household income of $73,000/year. Whether it fits your portfolio depends on whether you are targeting cash flow, capital growth, or a value-add renovation — all three are scored with suburb-specific numbers elsewhere on this page.
The main demand drivers in Lucas Heights are a median household income of $73,000/year, roughly 1 schools and 1 parks within the catchment. Together these shape both owner-occupier and tenant demand and are the factors we weight most heavily in the suburb's investment score.
Lucas Heights has a usual resident population of approximately 4, compared with a New South Wales suburb median of 5,325 — placing it in the lower half of the state's suburbs by size. Population is the clearest proxy for market depth: more residents mean more transactions and typically a shorter average days-on-market on resale.
Lucas Heights sits 29 km straight-line from the Sydney CBD. This is an outer-metro location; local employment and infrastructure announcements tend to move prices more than CBD connectivity alone.
A reliable median rent was not captured for Lucas Heights. Benchmark expected weekly rent on realestate.com.au and Domain, or the state rental tribunal's rent dashboard. Most Australian investors target a 4–5% gross yield as a baseline.
A reliable median mortgage figure was not captured for Lucas Heights. Use our loan serviceability calculator to estimate a realistic monthly repayment for your target purchase price and deposit.
Census data was not complete enough in Lucas Heights to compute a clean rent-to-mortgage coverage. Use current listings to benchmark weekly rent, then plug your expected purchase price into our rental yield calculator to see whether the investment runs cash-flow positive or negative.
The main risks are a thin buyer pool (4 residents), interest-rate sensitivity, below-median household incomes ($73,000 vs $97,552 state median), the broader New South Wales market cycle. Each of these is covered in the Risk Factors section above with suburb-specific numbers rather than generic warnings.
Every number on this page comes from the ABS 2021 Census of Population and Housing, Australia Post postcode reference data, and OpenStreetMap amenity tiles. The investment score, strategy verdicts, and comparison table are computed deterministically from those inputs — no opinion, no estimation. See our full methodology and the data sources and licences for the formulas we use.