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Ku-ring-gai

33,716 residential parcels covering 37.6 km².

Highly restricted land

≈93% of Ku-ring-gai’s residential land is highly restricted.

Driven mostly by 2-storey height caps. Ku-ring-gai ranks #7 of 33 councils in Sydney, and #32 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 Ku-ring-gai. ABS LGA code 14500. 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 Ku-ring-gai ranks in Sydney

Ku-ring-gai ranks #7 of 33 Sydney-area councils for highly restricted residential land.

Highly restricted

Ku-ring-gai: ≈93% · rank #7 of 33

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

2-storey cap

  1. 1. Wollondilly≈100%
  2. 2. Blue Mountains≈100%
  3. ⋯
  4. 6. Hunters Hill≈92%
  5. 7. Campbelltown (NSW)≈92%
  6. 8. Ku-ring-gai≈92%
  7. 9. Blacktown≈89%
  8. 10. Fairfield≈87%
  9. ⋯
  10. 32. North Sydney≈53%
  11. 33. Sydney≈33%

Low-density

  1. 1. Blue Mountains≈98%
  2. 2. Wollondilly≈97%
  3. 3. Hornsby≈95%
  4. 4. Ku-ring-gai≈91%
  5. 5. Hawkesbury≈88%
  6. 6. Hunters Hill≈87%
  7. ⋯
  8. 32. North Sydney≈42%
  9. 33. Sydney≈5%

Heritage

  1. 1. Hunters Hill≈58%
  2. 2. Sydney≈54%
  3. ⋯
  4. 8. Mosman≈23%
  5. 9. Waverley≈19%
  6. 10. Ku-ring-gai≈15%
  7. 11. Hornsby≈15%
  8. 12. Strathfield≈13%
  9. ⋯
  10. 32. Blacktown≈1%
  11. 33. Blue Mountains≈0%

Highly restricted

  1. 1. Wollondilly≈100%
  2. 2. Blue Mountains≈100%
  3. ⋯
  4. 5. Hunters Hill≈94%
  5. 6. Northern Beaches≈94%
  6. 7. Ku-ring-gai≈93%
  7. 8. Campbelltown (NSW)≈92%
  8. 9. Blacktown≈90%
  9. ⋯
  10. 32. Sydney≈62%
  11. 33. North Sydney≈59%

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

Suburbs in Ku-ring-gai

17 suburbs sit inside this council.

ABS Suburb & Locality (SAL) boundaries that fall at least 30% inside Ku-ring-gai.

  1. East Killara≈100%
  2. East Lindfield≈100%
  3. North Turramurra≈100%
  4. North Wahroonga≈100%
  5. Roseville Chase≈100%
  6. South Turramurra≈100%
  7. St Ives Chase≈100%
  8. West Pymble≈100%
  9. Wahroonga≈96%
  10. Pymble≈96%
  11. Warrawee≈95%
  12. Turramurra≈93%
  13. St Ives (NSW)≈93%
  14. Roseville≈90%
  15. Killara (NSW)≈88%
  16. Gordon (NSW)≈81%
  17. Lindfield≈79%
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Sydney context

Ku-ring-gai ranks #7 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

Ku-ring-gai’s residential planning controls, polygon-by-polygon

Every residential zone in Ku-ring-gai

  1. Environmental LivingC49 km²19.0%
  2. Low Density ResidentialR234 km²73.8%
  3. General ResidentialR1<1 km²0.3%
  4. Medium Density ResidentialR3<1 km²0.8%
  5. High Density ResidentialR42 km²5.4%
  6. Mixed UseMU1<1 km²0.7%
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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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