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Dickson ACT 2602

Dickson is located in the Canberra region of the Australian Capital Territory, postcode 2602. It has 4,161 properties across 37 streets, mostly units. Explore every street in Dickson, its property history, homes for sale and rent, who lives there, and the local agents.

About Dickson

Dickson, ACT 2602, sits in Canberra and neighbours Hackett, Ainslie, Braddon and Downer. Its 37 streets hold 4,161 properties, 1,052 of them houses and 3,109 units.

At the 2021 Census Dickson had 3,292 residents, a median age of 30 and an average household of 2.2 people. Median household income was $2,277 a week, the median mortgage repayment $1,904 a month and the median rent $500 a week. Of 1,431 dwellings, 423 were separate houses, 308 semi-detached and 704 flats; 279 were owned outright, 475 owned with a mortgage and 657 rented.

Updated October 2026

Who lives in Dickson

  • 3,292Peoplelive in the area
  • 30Median ageyears
  • $2,277Median household incomea week
  • $500Median renta week

Homes by type

  • Houses423
  • Townhouses and semis308
  • Flats and apartments704

Household

  • Median mortgage repayment$1,904a month
  • Household size2.2people on average

How homes are held

Owned outright 279Owned with a mortgage 475Rented 657Other 20

Properties in Dickson

Schools in Dickson

  • Emmaus Christian School

    IndependentPrimary and secondary

Streets in Dickson

  1. Antill Street276 properties
  2. Archer Street37 properties
  3. Badham Street51 properties
  4. Bancroft Street17 properties
  5. Bates Street24 properties
  6. Cape Street286 properties
  7. Challis Street395 properties
  8. Cowper Street102 properties
  9. Davenport Street58 properties
  10. Dickson Place133 properties
  11. Dooring Street421 properties
  12. Dumaresq Street65 properties
  13. Dutton Street41 properties
  14. Eady Street19 properties
  15. Guthrie Street15 properties
  16. Hawdon Place85 properties
  17. Hawdon Street54 properties
  18. Hope Street66 properties
  19. Karuah Street38 properties
  20. Kernot Street14 properties
  21. Lowrie Street138 properties
  22. Majura Avenue213 properties
  23. Marsden Street78 properties
  24. Mcgowan Place46 properties
  25. Mcgowan Street46 properties
  26. Moncrieff Street47 properties
  27. Morphett Street45 properties
  28. Northbourne Avenue915 properties
  29. Phillip Avenue1 property
  30. Poppyfield Street2 properties
  31. Randell Street45 properties
  32. Rosevear Place12 properties
  33. Ruse Street3 properties
  34. Stockdale Street159 properties
  35. Wakefield Avenue30 properties
  36. Wilshire Street69 properties
  37. Woolley Street115 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.