Suburb profile
Barton ACT 2600
Barton is located in the Canberra region of the Australian Capital Territory, postcode 2600. It has 1,960 properties across 19 streets, mostly units. Explore every street in Barton, its property history, homes for sale and rent, who lives there, and the local agents.
About Barton
Barton, ACT 2600, sits in Canberra and neighbours Campbell, Griffith, Capital Hill and Forrest. Its 19 streets hold 1,960 properties, 245 of them houses and 1,715 units.
At the 2021 Census Barton had 1,946 residents, a median age of 39 and an average household of 1.7 people. Median household income was $2,462 a week, the median mortgage repayment $2,015 a month and the median rent $525 a week. Of 943 dwellings, 59 were separate houses, 28 semi-detached and 857 flats; 217 were owned outright, 270 owned with a mortgage and 449 rented.
Updated October 2026
Who lives in Barton
- 1,946Peoplelive in the area
- 39Median ageyears
- $2,462Median household incomea week
- $525Median renta week
Homes by type
- Houses59
- Townhouses and semis28
- Flats and apartments857
Household
- Median mortgage repayment$2,015a month
- Household size1.7people on average
How homes are held
Properties in Barton
Schools in Barton
Telopea Park School
GovernmentPrimary and secondary
Telopea Park School
GovernmentPrimary and secondary
Local agents in Barton


Mark Larmer And Aaron Lewis
Licensed Agent, Auctioneer & Senior Sales Consultant Suburbia Real Estate
Last 12 months
- Properties sold
- 88
- Median sold price
- $750k
- Median days on market
- 28
Agencies that specialise in Barton
Streets in Barton
- Belmore Gardens14 properties
- Blackall Street589 properties
- Bligh Street2 properties
- Bourke Street30 properties
- Bowen Drive126 properties
- Brisbane Avenue101 properties
- Broughton Street4 properties
- Burbury Close126 properties
- Darling Street131 properties
- Gipps Street10 properties
- John Mcewen Crescent1 property
- Kings Avenue1 property
- Macquarie Street316 properties
- Menindee Drive8 properties
- National Circuit167 properties
- New South Wales Crescent13 properties
- Sydney Avenue284 properties
- Telopea Park18 properties
- Young Street19 properties
Neighbouring suburbs
Addresses and streets incorporate or were developed using G-NAF © Geoscape Australia, licensed by the Commonwealth of Australia under the Open Geo-coded National Address File (G-NAF) End User Licence Agreement.
Population and housing figures are drawn from the Australian Bureau of Statistics, Census of Population and Housing 2021, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International.
School details © Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA), from the Australian Schools List, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International and modified. ACARA does not endorse Listd.
Area summaries are generated from the national address file and ABS Census data, and checked against those figures before publication.


