Suburb profile

Mawson ACT 2607

Mawson is located in the Canberra region of the Australian Capital Territory, postcode 2607. It has 2,088 properties across 35 streets. Explore every street in Mawson, its property history, homes for sale and rent, who lives there, and the local agents.

About Mawson

Mawson, ACT 2607, sits in Canberra and neighbours Pearce, Farrer, Isaacs and O'malley. Its 35 streets hold 2,088 properties, 984 of them houses and 1,104 units.

At the Census Mawson had 3,440 residents, a median age of 38 and an average household of 2.4 people. Median household income was $2,204 a week, the median mortgage repayment $2,167 a month and the median rent $400 a week. Of 1,375 dwellings, 745 were separate houses, 361 semi-detached and 268 flats; 447 were owned outright, 416 owned with a mortgage and 491 rented.

Updated October 2026

Who lives in Mawson

  • 3,440Peoplelive in the area
  • 38Median ageyears
  • $2,204Median household incomea week
  • $400Median renta week

Homes by type

  • Houses745
  • Townhouses and semis361
  • Flats and apartments268

Household

  • Median mortgage repayment$2,167a month
  • Household size2.4people on average

How homes are held

Owned outright 447Owned with a mortgage 416Rented 491Other 21

Properties in Mawson

Schools in Mawson

  • Canberra Christian School

    IndependentPrimary

  • Mawson Primary School

    GovernmentPrimary

Streets in Mawson

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.