Suburb profile

Mount Vernon NSW 2178

Mount Vernon is located in the South West Sydney region of New South Wales, postcode 2178. It has 457 properties across 11 streets, almost all houses. Explore every street in Mount Vernon, its property history, homes for sale and rent, who lives there, and the local agents.

About Mount Vernon

Mount Vernon, NSW 2178, sits in South West Sydney and neighbours Horsley Park, Cecil Park and Kemps Creek. Its 11 streets hold 457 properties, 452 of them houses and 5 units.

Census figures are for the Horsley Park - Kemps Creek area, which had 4,344 residents, a median age of 44 and an average household of 3.4 people. Median household income was $2,372 a week, the median mortgage repayment $3,000 a month and the median rent $440 a week. Of 1,183 dwellings, 1,139 were separate houses, 26 semi-detached, 22 flats and 4 other; 612 were owned outright, 339 owned with a mortgage and 175 rented.

Updated October 2026

Who lives in Mount Vernon

  • 4,344Peoplelive in the area
  • 44Median ageyears
  • $2,372Median household incomea week
  • $440Median renta week

Homes by type

  • Houses1,139
  • Townhouses and semis26
  • Flats and apartments22
  • Other4

Household

  • Median mortgage repayment$3,000a month
  • Household size3.4people on average

How homes are held

Owned outright 612Owned with a mortgage 339Rented 175Other 57

Streets in Mount Vernon

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.