Suburb profile
Thornleigh NSW 2120
Thornleigh is located in the North Shore and Hornsby region of New South Wales, postcode 2120. It has 4,346 properties across 93 streets, mostly houses. Explore every street in Thornleigh, its property history, homes for sale and rent, who lives there, and the local agents.
About Thornleigh
Thornleigh, NSW 2120, sits in the North Shore and Hornsby region and neighbours Normanhurst, Wahroonga, Westleigh and Hornsby. Its 93 streets hold 4,346 properties, 2,967 of them houses and 1,379 units.
Census figures are for the Normanhurst - Thornleigh - Westleigh area, which has 19,158 residents, a median age of 41 and an average household of 2.9 people. Median household income is $2,781 a week, the median mortgage repayment $3,000 a month and the median rent $550 a week. Of 6,314 dwellings, 5,224 were separate houses, 741 semi-detached and 336 flats; 4 were other types. Tenure splits into 2,251 owned outright, 2,802 owned with a mortgage and 1,128 rented.
Updated October 2026
Who lives in Thornleigh
- 19,158Peoplelive in the area
- 41Median ageyears
- $2,781Median household incomea week
- $550Median renta week
Homes by type
- Houses5,224
- Townhouses and semis741
- Flats and apartments336
- Other4
Household
- Median mortgage repayment$3,000a month
- Household size2.9people on average
How homes are held
Properties in Thornleigh
Schools in Thornleigh
Normanhurst West Public School
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Thornleigh West Public School
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No secondary schools in Thornleigh.
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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.
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.
