Highly restricted land
≈75% of Liverpool’s residential land is highly restricted.
Driven mostly by 2-storey height caps. Liverpool ranks #27 of 33 councils in Sydney, and #88 of 133 capital city councils nationally.
Source: Geometric union of 2-storey, low-density, detached-only, and heritage controls across Liverpool. ABS LGA code 14900. 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 Liverpool ranks in Sydney
Liverpool ranks #27 of 33 Sydney-area councils for highly restricted residential land.
Highly restricted
Liverpool: ≈75% · rank #27 of 33
2-storey cap
- 1. Wollondilly≈100%
- 2. Blue Mountains≈100%
- ⋯
- 23. Bayside (NSW)≈74%
- 24. Camden≈73%
- 25. Liverpool≈73%
- 26. Waverley≈71%
- 27. Randwick≈71%
- ⋯
- 32. North Sydney≈53%
- 33. Sydney≈33%
Low-density
- 1. Blue Mountains≈98%
- 2. Wollondilly≈97%
- ⋯
- 28. Randwick≈58%
- 29. Waverley≈54%
- 30. Liverpool≈53%
- 31. Inner West≈52%
- 32. North Sydney≈42%
- 33. Sydney≈5%
Heritage
- 1. Hunters Hill≈58%
- 2. Sydney≈54%
- ⋯
- 25. Canterbury-Bankstown≈2%
- 26. The Hills≈1%
- 27. Liverpool≈1%
- 28. Penrith≈1%
- 29. Sutherland≈1%
- ⋯
- 32. Blacktown≈1%
- 33. Blue Mountains≈0%
Highly restricted
- 1. Wollondilly≈100%
- 2. Blue Mountains≈100%
- ⋯
- 25. Woollahra≈77%
- 26. Waverley≈76%
- 27. Liverpool≈75%
- 28. Bayside (NSW)≈75%
- 29. Randwick≈75%
- ⋯
- 32. Sydney≈62%
- 33. North Sydney≈59%
Source: Liverpool ranked against other Sydney-area councils on each restriction metric (ex-rural shares). Methodology →
Suburbs in Liverpool
31 suburbs sit inside this council.
ABS Suburb & Locality (SAL) boundaries that fall at least 30% inside Liverpool.
- Elizabeth Hills≈100%
- Horningsea Park≈100%
- Pleasure Point≈100%
- Voyager Point≈100%
- West Hoxton≈100%
- Heckenberg≈99%
- Hammondville≈99%
- Cecil Hills≈99%
- Prestons≈99%
- Hoxton Park≈98%
- Denham Court≈98%
- Hinchinbrook (NSW)≈98%
- Wattle Grove (NSW)≈97%
- Lurnea≈96%
- Chipping Norton≈96%
- Middleton Grange≈94%
- Green Valley (NSW)≈94%
- Busby≈94%
- Moorebank≈93%
- Ashcroft≈91%
- Sadleir≈91%
- Casula≈90%
- Carnes Hill≈86%
- Austral≈83%
- Warwick Farm≈74%
- Cartwright≈59%
- Liverpool≈58%
- Edmondson Park≈47%
- Miller≈44%
- Luddenham≈29%
- Bringelly≈21%
Sydney context
Liverpool ranks #27 of 33 councils in Sydney for highly restricted residential land.
- Wollondilly ≈100%
- Blue Mountains ≈100%
- Hawkesbury ≈98%
- Hornsby ≈96%
- Hunters Hill ≈94%
- Northern Beaches ≈94%
- Ku-ring-gai ≈93%
- Campbelltown (NSW) ≈92%
- Blacktown ≈90%
- Penrith ≈88%
- Fairfield ≈88%
- Georges River ≈87%
- Ryde ≈87%
- Sutherland ≈86%
- Willoughby ≈86%
- The Hills ≈85%
- Burwood ≈82%
- Mosman ≈81%
- Cumberland ≈81%
- Canterbury-Bankstown ≈81%
- Lane Cove ≈81%
- Strathfield ≈80%
- Inner West ≈78%
- Parramatta ≈78%
- Woollahra ≈77%
- Waverley ≈76%
- Liverpool ≈75%
- Bayside (NSW) ≈75%
- Randwick ≈75%
- Camden ≈74%
- Canada Bay ≈70%
- Sydney ≈62%
- North Sydney ≈59%
Detailed zoning map
Liverpool’s residential planning controls, polygon-by-polygon
Every residential zone in Liverpool
- Environmental LivingC42 km²2.6%
- Low Density ResidentialR235 km²58.5%
- General ResidentialR16 km²9.2%
- Medium Density ResidentialR314 km²22.7%
- High Density ResidentialR43 km²5.1%
- Commercial CentreE2<1 km²0.2%
- Mixed Use (legacy)B4<1 km²0.6%
- Mixed UseMU11 km²1.0%
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.