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Downer ACT 2602

Downer is located in the Canberra region of the Australian Capital Territory, postcode 2602. It has 2,189 properties across 55 streets, mostly houses. Explore every street in Downer, its property history, homes for sale and rent, who lives there, and the local agents.

About Downer

Downer, ACT 2602, sits in Canberra and neighbours Dickson, Hackett, Lyneham and Watson. Its 55 streets hold 2,189 properties, 1,471 of them houses and 718 units.

At the 2021 Census Downer had 4,296 residents, a median age of 35 and an average household of 2.5 people. Median household income was $2,267 a week, the median mortgage repayment $2,167 a month and the median rent $420 a week. Of 1,626 dwellings, 1,092 were separate houses, 261 semi-detached and 274 flats; 437 were owned outright, 562 owned with a mortgage and 587 rented.

Updated October 2026

Who lives in Downer

  • 4,296Peoplelive in the area
  • 35Median ageyears
  • $2,267Median household incomea week
  • $420Median renta week

Homes by type

  • Houses1,092
  • Townhouses and semis261
  • Flats and apartments274

Household

  • Median mortgage repayment$2,167a month
  • Household size2.5people on average

How homes are held

Owned outright 437Owned with a mortgage 562Rented 587Other 40

Properties in Downer

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Streets in Downer

A

  1. Allport Street29 properties
  2. Antill Street145 properties
  3. Atherton Street184 properties

B

  1. Banfield Street65 properties
  2. Barney Street14 properties
  3. Becker Place11 properties
  4. Berry Street21 properties
  5. Blacket Street123 properties
  6. Bonython Street69 properties
  7. Bradfield Place9 properties
  8. Bradfield Street281 properties
  9. Briggs Street4 properties
  10. Bull Street4 properties
  11. Burn Place7 properties
  12. Burn Street63 properties
  13. Bush Street4 properties

C

  1. Cadell Place5 properties
  2. Cadell Street44 properties
  3. Cole Street25 properties
  4. Colton Place13 properties
  5. Cotton Street29 properties
  6. Cowan Street26 properties

D

  1. Duffield Place17 properties
  2. Durack Street47 properties

E

  1. Edkins Street27 properties

F

  1. Fenner Street22 properties
  2. Fenton Street24 properties
  3. Frencham Place5 properties
  4. Frencham Street147 properties

G

  1. Gale Street4 properties
  2. Gardiner Street87 properties
  3. Giblin Place11 properties
  4. Giblin Street16 properties

H

  1. Heaton Place14 properties

L

  1. Lea Place5 properties
  2. Legge Street43 properties
  3. Lucas Place8 properties
  4. Lynd Place7 properties

M

  1. May Street4 properties
  2. Melba Place14 properties
  3. Melba Street226 properties
  4. Milson Street4 properties

N

  1. Nichols Street5 properties
  2. Northbourne Avenue46 properties

P

  1. Padbury Place6 properties
  2. Padbury Street44 properties
  3. Panton Street2 properties
  4. Phillip Avenue63 properties
  5. Price Place10 properties

R

  1. Raine Place7 properties
  2. Rennie Street5 properties

S

  1. Selfe Street3 properties
  2. Shirley Street2 properties
  3. Swinden Street56 properties

T

  1. Tardent Street33 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.

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