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Canada Bay

18,751 residential parcels covering 11.8 km².

Highly restricted land

≈70% of Canada Bay’s residential land is highly restricted.

Driven mostly by 2-storey height caps. Canada Bay ranks #31 of 33 councils in Sydney, and #98 of 133 capital city councils nationally.

Highly restricted residential
Not highly restricted residential

Source: Geometric union of 2-storey, low-density, detached-only, and heritage controls across Canada Bay. ABS LGA code 11520. Methodology →

Note: Figures and the map cover only the parts of this area inside the capital’s Significant Urban Area; land beyond the SUA boundary is excluded from our modelling.

Where Canada Bay ranks in Sydney

Canada Bay ranks #31 of 33 Sydney-area councils for highly restricted residential land.

Highly restricted

Canada Bay: ≈70% · rank #31 of 33

0% (least restrictive)(most restrictive) 100%

2-storey cap

  1. 1. Wollondilly≈100%
  2. 2. Blue Mountains≈100%
  3. ⋯
  4. 27. Randwick≈71%
  5. 28. Penrith≈67%
  6. 29. Canada Bay≈65%
  7. 30. Woollahra≈65%
  8. 31. Inner West≈58%
  9. 32. North Sydney≈53%
  10. 33. Sydney≈33%

Low-density

  1. 1. Blue Mountains≈98%
  2. 2. Wollondilly≈97%
  3. ⋯
  4. 25. Woollahra≈60%
  5. 26. Camden≈59%
  6. 27. Canada Bay≈58%
  7. 28. Randwick≈58%
  8. 29. Waverley≈54%
  9. ⋯
  10. 32. North Sydney≈42%
  11. 33. Sydney≈5%

Heritage

  1. 1. Hunters Hill≈58%
  2. 2. Sydney≈54%
  3. ⋯
  4. 11. Hornsby≈15%
  5. 12. Strathfield≈13%
  6. 13. Canada Bay≈11%
  7. 14. Randwick≈11%
  8. 15. Ryde≈8%
  9. ⋯
  10. 32. Blacktown≈1%
  11. 33. Blue Mountains≈0%

Highly restricted

  1. 1. Wollondilly≈100%
  2. 2. Blue Mountains≈100%
  3. ⋯
  4. 29. Randwick≈75%
  5. 30. Camden≈74%
  6. 31. Canada Bay≈70%
  7. 32. Sydney≈62%
  8. 33. North Sydney≈59%

Source: Canada Bay ranked against other Sydney-area councils on each restriction metric (ex-rural shares). Methodology →

Suburbs in Canada Bay

10 suburbs sit inside this council.

ABS Suburb & Locality (SAL) boundaries that fall at least 30% inside Canada Bay.

  1. Rodd Point≈100%
  2. Russell Lea≈100%
  3. Abbotsford (NSW)≈87%
  4. Concord West≈87%
  5. Concord≈84%
  6. Drummoyne≈73%
  7. Breakfast Point≈71%
  8. Five Dock≈66%
  9. Rhodes≈20%
  10. North Strathfield≈16%
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Sydney context

Canada Bay ranks #31 of 33 councils in Sydney for highly restricted residential land.

  1. Wollondilly ≈100%
  2. Blue Mountains ≈100%
  3. Hawkesbury ≈98%
  4. Hornsby ≈96%
  5. Hunters Hill ≈94%
  6. Northern Beaches ≈94%
  7. Ku-ring-gai ≈93%
  8. Campbelltown (NSW) ≈92%
  9. Blacktown ≈90%
  10. Penrith ≈88%
  11. Fairfield ≈88%
  12. Georges River ≈87%
  13. Ryde ≈87%
  14. Sutherland ≈86%
  15. Willoughby ≈86%
  16. The Hills ≈85%
  17. Burwood ≈82%
  18. Mosman ≈81%
  19. Cumberland ≈81%
  20. Canterbury-Bankstown ≈81%
  21. Lane Cove ≈81%
  22. Strathfield ≈80%
  23. Inner West ≈78%
  24. Parramatta ≈78%
  25. Woollahra ≈77%
  26. Waverley ≈76%
  27. Liverpool ≈75%
  28. Bayside (NSW) ≈75%
  29. Randwick ≈75%
  30. Camden ≈74%
  31. Canada Bay ≈70%
  32. Sydney ≈62%
  33. North Sydney ≈59%
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Detailed zoning map

Canada Bay’s residential planning controls, polygon-by-polygon

Every residential zone in Canada Bay

  1. Low Density ResidentialR29 km²60.0%
  2. General ResidentialR1<1 km²1.5%
  3. Medium Density ResidentialR34 km²27.2%
  4. High Density ResidentialR41 km²5.4%
  5. Mixed UseMU11 km²5.9%
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Source: State-published zoning data, residential ex-rural, bounded to the Significant Urban Area. Areas measure the zone polygons drawn here, which include road reserve and unsubdivided land, so they are a different measure from the lot-by-lot areas behind this page’s restricted-land figures.

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