Suburb profile

Deakin ACT 2600

Deakin is located in the Canberra region of the Australian Capital Territory, postcode 2600. It has 2,496 properties across 59 streets. Explore every street in Deakin, its property history, homes for sale and rent, who lives there, and the local agents.

About Deakin

Deakin, ACT 2600, sits in Canberra and neighbours Hughes, Capital Hill, Curtin and Forrest. Its 59 streets hold 2,496 properties, 1,318 of them houses and 1,178 units.

At the Census Deakin had 3,124 residents, a median age of 45 and an average household of 2.4 people. Median household income was $3,117 a week, the median mortgage repayment $3,180 a month and the median rent $560 a week. Of 1,209 dwellings, 821 were separate houses, 218 semi-detached and 168 flats; 534 were owned outright, 348 owned with a mortgage and 250 rented.

Updated October 2026

Who lives in Deakin

  • 3,124Peoplelive in the area
  • 45Median ageyears
  • $3,117Median household incomea week
  • $560Median renta week

Homes by type

  • Houses821
  • Townhouses and semis218
  • Flats and apartments168

Household

  • Median mortgage repayment$3,180a month
  • Household size2.4people on average

How homes are held

Owned outright 534Owned with a mortgage 348Rented 250Other 77

Schools in Deakin

  • Canberra Girls Grammar School - Junior School

    IndependentPrimary

Streets in Deakin

A

  1. Adelaide Avenue1 property

B

  1. Barron Street39 properties
  2. Beale Crescent28 properties
  3. Beauchamp Street43 properties
  4. Bedford Street18 properties
  5. Brassey Street17 properties
  6. Buxton Street46 properties

C

  1. Campion Street14 properties
  2. Canterbury Crescent19 properties
  3. Carmichael Street11 properties
  4. Carrington Street42 properties
  5. Chermside Street24 properties

D

  1. Daly Street9 properties
  2. De Chair Street32 properties
  3. Denison Street43 properties
  4. Dominion Circuit28 properties
  5. Duff Place20 properties
  6. Dugan Street23 properties

E

  1. Empire Circuit24 properties

F

  1. Fergusson Crescent42 properties
  2. Fuller Street16 properties

G

  1. Galway Place24 properties
  2. Gawler Crescent48 properties
  3. Geils Court101 properties
  4. Gormanston Crescent28 properties
  5. Grey Street28 properties
  6. Grose Street131 properties

H

  1. Hampden Place3 properties
  2. Hannah Place6 properties
  3. Hopetoun Circuit61 properties
  4. Hotham Crescent13 properties

J

  1. Jersey Street2 properties
  2. Jervois Street42 properties

K

  1. Kent Street187 properties
  2. King Street64 properties

L

  1. Lamington Street19 properties
  2. Lawley Place15 properties
  3. Lawley Street29 properties
  4. Le Hunte Street24 properties

M

  1. Macartney Crescent15 properties
  2. Macgregor Street213 properties
  3. Makin Place5 properties
  4. Melbourne Avenue23 properties

N

  1. Napier Close183 properties
  2. Nathan Street36 properties
  3. National Circuit17 properties
  4. Newdegate Street91 properties
  5. Norman Place8 properties
  6. Norman Street45 properties
  7. Normanby Crescent7 properties
  8. Northcote Crescent14 properties

P

  1. Phipps Close82 properties

R

  1. Rawson Street36 properties
  2. Robe Street11 properties

S

  1. State Circle45 properties
  2. Stonehaven Crescent55 properties
  3. Stradbroke Street23 properties
  4. Strickland Crescent150 properties

T

  1. Thesiger Court73 properties

Neighbouring suburbs

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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.

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Area summaries are generated from the national address file and ABS Census data, and checked against those figures before publication.