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Lawson ACT 2617

Lawson is located in the Canberra region of the Australian Capital Territory, postcode 2617. It has 1,473 properties across 21 streets, mostly units. Explore every street in Lawson, its property history, homes for sale and rent, who lives there, and the local agents.

About Lawson

Lawson, ACT 2617, sits in Canberra and neighbours Belconnen, Bruce, Giralang and McKellar. Its 21 streets hold 1,473 properties, 402 of them houses and 1,071 units.

At the 2021 Census Lawson had 2,739 residents, a median age of 28 and an average household of 2.6 people. Median household income was $2,492 a week, the median mortgage repayment $2,000 a month and the median rent $548 a week. Of 990 dwellings, 194 were separate houses, 623 semi-detached and 170 flats; 78 were owned outright, 442 owned with a mortgage and 453 rented.

Updated October 2026

Who lives in Lawson

  • 2,739Peoplelive in the area
  • 28Median ageyears
  • $2,492Median household incomea week
  • $548Median renta week

Homes by type

  • Houses194
  • Townhouses and semis623
  • Flats and apartments170

Household

  • Median mortgage repayment$2,000a month
  • Household size2.6people on average

How homes are held

Owned outright 78Owned with a mortgage 442Rented 453Other 17

Properties in Lawson

Streets in Lawson

  1. Bellbird Loop31 properties
  2. Billabong Street69 properties
  3. Bulletin Street41 properties
  4. Concertina Street19 properties
  5. Cooee Rise6 properties
  6. Dawn Crescent6 properties
  7. Drover Rise6 properties
  8. Jumbuck Crescent142 properties
  9. Narrambla Terrace163 properties
  10. Nevertire Street134 properties
  11. Outback Street5 properties
  12. Overflow Street28 properties
  13. Pipeclay Street55 properties
  14. Rouseabout Street151 properties
  15. Selection Street25 properties
  16. Sliprail Street11 properties
  17. Solong Street31 properties
  18. Stockman Avenue310 properties
  19. Swagman Street20 properties
  20. Toorale Terrace30 properties
  21. Wanderlight Avenue190 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.