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Hawkesbury

15,879 residential parcels covering 35.0 km².

Highly restricted land

98% of Hawkesbury’s residential land is highly restricted.

Driven mostly by 2-storey height caps. Hawkesbury ranks #3 of 33 councils in Sydney, and #13 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 Hawkesbury. ABS LGA code 13800. 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 Hawkesbury ranks in Sydney

Hawkesbury ranks #3 of 33 Sydney-area councils for highly restricted residential land.

Highly restricted

Hawkesbury: 98% · rank #3 of 33

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

2-storey cap

  1. 1. Wollondilly100%
  2. 2. Blue Mountains100%
  3. 3. Hawkesbury97%
  4. 4. Northern Beaches93%
  5. 5. Hornsby93%
  6. 32. North Sydney54%
  7. 33. Sydney33%

Low-density

  1. 1. Blue Mountains98%
  2. 2. Wollondilly97%
  3. 3. Hornsby95%
  4. 4. Ku-ring-gai92%
  5. 5. Hawkesbury88%
  6. 6. Hunters Hill87%
  7. 7. Northern Beaches86%
  8. 32. North Sydney42%
  9. 33. Sydney5%

Heritage

  1. 1. Hunters Hill58%
  2. 2. Sydney54%
  3. 19. Bayside (NSW)5%
  4. 20. Georges River4%
  5. 21. Hawkesbury3%
  6. 22. Cumberland3%
  7. 23. Wollondilly2%
  8. 32. Blacktown1%
  9. 33. Blue Mountains0%

Highly restricted

  1. 1. Wollondilly100%
  2. 2. Blue Mountains100%
  3. 3. Hawkesbury98%
  4. 4. Hornsby96%
  5. 5. Hunters Hill94%
  6. 32. Sydney62%
  7. 33. North Sydney59%

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