Suburb profile

Rivett ACT 2611

Rivett is located in the Canberra region of the Australian Capital Territory, postcode 2611. It has 1,587 properties across 48 streets, mostly houses. Explore every street in Rivett, its property history, homes for sale and rent, who lives there, and the local agents.

About Rivett

Rivett, ACT 2611, sits in Canberra and neighbours Duffy, Holder, Stirling and Chapman. Its 48 streets hold 1,587 properties, 1,345 of them houses and 242 units.

At the 2021 Census Rivett had 3,354 residents, a median age of 39 and an average household of 2.5 people. Median household income was $2,207 a week, the median mortgage repayment $2,140 a month and the median rent $322 a week. Of 1,278 dwellings, 1,111 were separate houses, 166 semi-detached and 3 flats; 408 were owned outright, 526 owned with a mortgage and 316 rented.

Updated October 2026

Who lives in Rivett

  • 3,354Peoplelive in the area
  • 39Median ageyears
  • $2,207Median household incomea week
  • $322Median renta week

Homes by type

  • Houses1,111
  • Townhouses and semis166
  • Flats and apartments3

Household

  • Median mortgage repayment$2,140a month
  • Household size2.5people on average

How homes are held

Owned outright 408Owned with a mortgage 526Rented 316Other 28

Streets in Rivett

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.