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Hughes ACT 2605

Hughes is located in the Canberra region of the Australian Capital Territory, postcode 2605. It has 1,525 properties across 45 streets, mostly houses. Explore every street in Hughes, its property history, homes for sale and rent, who lives there, and the local agents.

About Hughes

Hughes, ACT 2605, sits in Canberra and neighbours Curtin, Garran, Phillip and Red Hill. Its 45 streets hold 1,525 properties, 1,150 of them houses and 375 units.

At the 2021 Census Hughes had 3,210 residents, a median age of 43 and an average household of 2.6 people. Median household income was $2,797 a week, the median mortgage repayment $2,700 a month and the median rent $400 a week. Of 1,131 dwellings, 831 were separate houses, 149 semi-detached and 149 flats; 413 were owned outright, 407 owned with a mortgage and 272 rented.

Updated October 2026

Who lives in Hughes

  • 3,210Peoplelive in the area
  • 43Median ageyears
  • $2,797Median household incomea week
  • $400Median renta week

Homes by type

  • Houses831
  • Townhouses and semis149
  • Flats and apartments149

Household

  • Median mortgage repayment$2,700a month
  • Household size2.6people on average

How homes are held

Owned outright 413Owned with a mortgage 407Rented 272Other 39

Schools in Hughes

  • Hughes Primary School

    GovernmentPrimary

Streets in Hughes

B

  1. Bamford Street48 properties
  2. Birdwood Street68 properties
  3. Bisdee Street32 properties
  4. Brand Street34 properties

C

  1. Carroll Street97 properties
  2. Colvin Street30 properties
  3. Conyers Street40 properties
  4. Coxen Street137 properties

D

  1. De Largie Place1 property
  2. Downes Place25 properties

G

  1. Glasgow Place11 properties
  2. Glasgow Street40 properties
  3. Glynn Place21 properties
  4. Glynn Street17 properties
  5. Goble Street44 properties
  6. Groom Place7 properties
  7. Groom Street87 properties

H

  1. Higgs Place13 properties
  2. Hughes Place24 properties
  3. Hyde Place12 properties

J

  1. Jensen Place8 properties
  2. Jensen Street53 properties
  3. Jess Place8 properties

K

  1. Kent Street27 properties
  2. Kitchener Street104 properties

L

  1. Leane Street29 properties
  2. Lynch Street41 properties

M

  1. Mahon Place9 properties
  2. Maygar Street25 properties
  3. Mcnicoll Place14 properties
  4. Mcnicoll Street46 properties
  5. Millen Street53 properties

P

  1. Pope Street19 properties
  2. Poynton Street62 properties

S

  1. Smyth Place12 properties
  2. Spence Place15 properties

T

  1. Tivey Place11 properties
  2. Tudor Place14 properties

W

  1. Wark Street16 properties
  2. Webster Street46 properties
  3. Whittle Street3 properties
  4. Wisdom Place11 properties
  5. Wisdom Street64 properties
  6. Wylly Place19 properties
  7. Wynter Place28 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.