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

Owned outright 577Owned with a mortgage 855Rented 576Other 30

Properties in Palmerston

Schools in Palmerston

  • Palmerston District Primary School

    GovernmentPrimary

Streets in Palmerston

A

  1. Abbot Close11 properties
  2. Aggie Place12 properties
  3. Alma Close8 properties
  4. Amarina Street2 properties
  5. Arawang Lane18 properties
  6. Archel Place17 properties
  7. Arden Place24 properties
  8. Ariah Place7 properties
  9. Arid Place13 properties
  10. Augustus Close25 properties

B

  1. Barn Place7 properties
  2. Bendora Crescent34 properties
  3. Bimberi Crescent120 properties
  4. Bollard Street37 properties
  5. Brinkley Circuit35 properties
  6. Buderim Place8 properties
  7. Buller Crescent44 properties
  8. Bunya Close14 properties
  9. Burbidge Crescent14 properties
  10. Burrowa Street10 properties

C

  1. Cann Close9 properties
  2. Chaton Place7 properties
  3. Clear Street14 properties
  4. Conner Close47 properties
  5. Coree Place13 properties
  6. Corona Place12 properties
  7. Cradle Close16 properties

D

  1. Dandenong Court28 properties
  2. Domain Street31 properties

E

  1. Egerton Close11 properties
  2. Ella Close18 properties
  3. Ellen Place11 properties
  4. Elvire Place78 properties
  5. Everard Street39 properties

F

  1. Feathertop Street21 properties
  2. Figg Place23 properties
  3. Flora Place55 properties
  4. Foxlow Close16 properties
  5. Freeling Crescent17 properties

G

  1. Gingera Street7 properties
  2. Grampians Street29 properties
  3. Gudgenby Close34 properties

H

  1. Hale Place9 properties
  2. Halifax Close37 properties
  3. Hart Close16 properties
  4. Haystack Crescent46 properties
  5. Huxley Place20 properties

I

  1. Ippia Place11 properties
  2. Iron Place6 properties

K

  1. Knoll Place8 properties
  2. Kosciuszko Avenue167 properties

L

  1. La Trobe Close9 properties
  2. Lambell Close20 properties
  3. Laptz Close22 properties
  4. Leal Place12 properties
  5. Leisler Place8 properties
  6. Lofty Close48 properties
  7. Lorne Place31 properties

M

  1. Macedon Crescent31 properties
  2. Mainwaring Rich Circuit135 properties
  3. Manna Close15 properties
  4. Millpost Close12 properties
  5. Mt Warning Crescent36 properties

N

  1. Namadgi Circuit137 properties
  2. Narryer Close49 properties

O

  1. Octy Place12 properties

P

  1. Painter Place14 properties
  2. Pryton Close14 properties

R

  1. Redcliffe Street60 properties

S

  1. Sentry Crescent27 properties
  2. Solus Place12 properties
  3. Sonder Close11 properties
  4. Spec Place6 properties
  5. Stromlo Crescent16 properties
  6. Sugarloaf Circle53 properties

T

  1. Tamborine Close13 properties
  2. Tinderry Circuit80 properties
  3. Tiptree Crescent80 properties

W

  1. Wambo Close21 properties
  2. Weddin Circuit93 properties
  3. Werong Close11 properties

Y

  1. Yalga Close16 properties

Z

  1. Zamia Place46 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.

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Area summaries are generated from the national address file and ABS Census data, and checked against those figures before publication.