Suburb profile
Symonston ACT 2609
Symonston is located in the Canberra region of the Australian Capital Territory, postcode 2609. It has 681 properties across 13 streets. Explore every street in Symonston, its property history, homes for sale and rent, who lives there, and the local agents.
About Symonston
Symonston, ACT 2609, sits in Canberra and neighbours Fyshwick, Jerrabomberra, Narrabundah and O'malley. Its 13 streets hold 681 properties, 276 of them houses and 405 units.
Census figures are for the Canberra East area. There were 1,097 residents, a median age of 47 and an average household of 1.8 people. Median household income was $1,003 a week, the median mortgage repayment $1,546 a month and the median rent $263 a week. Of 404 dwellings, 143 were separate houses, 46 semi-detached, 66 flats and 147 other; 196 were owned outright, 45 owned with a mortgage and 145 rented.
Updated October 2026
Who lives in Symonston
- 1,097Peoplelive in the area
- 47Median ageyears
- $1,003Median household incomea week
- $263Median renta week
Homes by type
- Houses143
- Townhouses and semis46
- Flats and apartments66
- Other147
Household
- Median mortgage repayment$1,546a month
- Household size1.8people on average
How homes are held
Streets in Symonston
- Banksia Drive46 properties
- Bridge Street2 properties
- Canberra Avenue379 properties
- Conifer Avenue7 properties
- Faulding Street13 properties
- Hindmarsh Drive1 property
- Horizon Avenue28 properties
- Jerrabomberra Avenue4 properties
- Mugga Lane11 properties
- Narrabundah Lane146 properties
- Taubman Street6 properties
- The Pines Avenue18 properties
- Wormald Street20 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.
Area summaries are generated from the national address file and ABS Census data, and checked against those figures before publication.