Suburb profile
Palmerston ACT 2913
Palmerston is located in the Canberra region of the Australian Capital Territory, postcode 2913. It has 2,466 properties across 83 streets, mostly houses. Explore every street in Palmerston, its property history, homes for sale and rent, who lives there, and the local agents.
About Palmerston
Palmerston, ACT 2913, sits in Canberra and neighbours Gungahlin, Crace, Ngunnawal and Nicholls. Its 83 streets hold 2,466 properties, 1,705 of them houses and 761 units.
At the Census Palmerston had 5,579 residents, a median age of 36 and an average household of 2.6 people. Median household income was $2,316 a week, the median mortgage repayment $1,940 a month and the median rent $450 a week. Of 2,038 dwellings, 1,226 were separate houses and 808 semi-detached; 577 were owned outright, 855 owned with a mortgage and 576 rented.
Updated October 2026
Who lives in Palmerston
- 5,579Peoplelive in the area
- 36Median ageyears
- $2,316Median household incomea week
- $450Median renta week
Homes by type
- Houses1,226
- Townhouses and semis808
Household
- Median mortgage repayment$1,940a month
- Household size2.6people on average
How homes are held
Properties in Palmerston
Schools in Palmerston
Palmerston District Primary School
GovernmentPrimary
No secondary schools in Palmerston.
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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.

