Suburb profile

East Sydney NSW 2010

East Sydney is located in the Sydney City and Inner South region of New South Wales, postcode 2010. It has 10,911 properties across 88 streets, mostly units. Explore every street in East Sydney, its property history, homes for sale and rent, who lives there, and the local agents.

About East Sydney

East Sydney, NSW 2010, sits in the Sydney City and Inner South region and neighbours Edgecliff, Paddington, Potts Point and Surry Hills. Its 88 streets hold 10,911 properties, 2,677 of them houses and 8,234 units.

Census figures are for Darlinghurst, which has 10,615 residents, a median age of 37 and an average household of 1.7 people. Median household income is $2,279 a week, the median mortgage repayment $2,964 a month and the median rent $550 a week. Of 5,384 dwellings, 48 were separate houses, 1,054 semi-detached, 4,243 flats and 17 other; 907 were owned outright, 1,038 owned with a mortgage and 3,332 rented.

Updated October 2026

Who lives in East Sydney

  • 10,615Peoplelive in the area
  • 37Median ageyears
  • $2,279Median household incomea week
  • $550Median renta week

Homes by type

  • Houses48
  • Townhouses and semis1,054
  • Flats and apartments4,243
  • Other17

Household

  • Median mortgage repayment$2,964a month
  • Household size1.7people on average

How homes are held

Owned outright 907Owned with a mortgage 1,038Rented 3,332Other 107

Schools in East Sydney

  • SCEGGS Darlinghurst

    IndependentPrimary and secondary

Streets in East Sydney

B

  1. Barcom Avenue325 properties
  2. Bayswater Road1 property
  3. Berwick Lane8 properties
  4. Boundary Street260 properties
  5. Bourke Street274 properties
  6. Burnell Place6 properties
  7. Burton Street300 properties

C

  1. Caldwell Street22 properties
  2. Campbell Street86 properties
  3. Chapel Street12 properties
  4. Charlotte Lane7 properties
  5. Chisholm Street29 properties
  6. Clapton Place106 properties
  7. College Street302 properties
  8. Craigend Street97 properties
  9. Crown Lane3 properties
  10. Crown Street688 properties

D

  1. Darley Place4 properties
  2. Darley Street201 properties
  3. Darlinghurst Road524 properties
  4. Darlinghurst Street1 property
  5. Denham Street22 properties

F

  1. Farrell Avenue194 properties
  2. Flinders Street337 properties
  3. Foley Street45 properties
  4. Forbes Street622 properties
  5. Francis Street286 properties

G

  1. Goulburn Street162 properties

H

  1. Hannam Street10 properties
  2. Hardie Street88 properties
  3. Hargrave Lane10 properties
  4. Hargrave Street9 properties
  5. Hickey Lane1 property

I

  1. Ice Street6 properties

K

  1. Kings Cross Road466 properties
  2. Kings Lane34 properties
  3. Kirketon Road92 properties

L

  1. Langley Street15 properties
  2. Leichhardt Street21 properties
  3. Little Burton Street4 properties
  4. Little Oxford Street28 properties
  5. Little Surrey Street5 properties
  6. Little West Street12 properties
  7. Liverpool Lane7 properties
  8. Liverpool Street748 properties

M

  1. Mclachlan Avenue325 properties
  2. Mont Clair Lane1 property

N

  1. Neild Avenue243 properties
  2. Nimrod Street12 properties
  3. Norman Street59 properties

O

  1. O'Briens Lane13 properties
  2. Oswald Lane4 properties
  3. Oxford Square6 properties
  4. Oxford Street668 properties

P

  1. Palmer Lane25 properties
  2. Palmer Street205 properties
  3. Premier Lane3 properties
  4. Printers Lane12 properties

R

  1. Riley Street306 properties
  2. Rosebank Street81 properties
  3. Royston Street148 properties
  4. Ryder Street18 properties

S

  1. Seale Street9 properties
  2. Sherbrooke Street17 properties
  3. Sims Street15 properties
  4. South Dowling Street63 properties
  5. St Peters Lane3 properties
  6. St Peters Street2 properties
  7. Stanley Lane12 properties
  8. Stanley Street314 properties
  9. Sturt Street21 properties
  10. Surrey Lane2 properties
  11. Surrey Street166 properties

T

  1. Taggarts Lane6 properties
  2. Taylor Street67 properties
  3. Tewkesbury Avenue80 properties
  4. The Stables Lane3 properties
  5. Thomson Street61 properties

V

  1. Victoria Street604 properties

W

  1. West Avenue21 properties
  2. West Street7 properties
  3. William Street262 properties
  4. Wilshire Avenue1 property
  5. Womerah Avenue276 properties
  6. Womerah Lane15 properties
  7. Woods Lane22 properties

Y

  1. Yurong Lane1 property
  2. Yurong Street252 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.