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Willoughby

16,822 residential parcels covering 11.6 km².

Highly restricted land

≈86% of Willoughby’s residential land is highly restricted.

Driven mostly by 2-storey height caps. Willoughby ranks #15 of 33 councils in Sydney, and #61 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 Willoughby. ABS LGA code 18250. 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 Willoughby ranks in Sydney

Willoughby ranks #15 of 33 Sydney-area councils for highly restricted residential land.

Highly restricted

Willoughby: ≈86% · rank #15 of 33

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

2-storey cap

  1. 1. Wollondilly≈100%
  2. 2. Blue Mountains≈100%
  3. ⋯
  4. 12. Sutherland≈86%
  5. 13. The Hills≈85%
  6. 14. Willoughby≈84%
  7. 15. Ryde≈81%
  8. 16. Canterbury-Bankstown≈80%
  9. ⋯
  10. 32. North Sydney≈53%
  11. 33. Sydney≈33%

Low-density

  1. 1. Blue Mountains≈98%
  2. 2. Wollondilly≈97%
  3. ⋯
  4. 9. Georges River≈85%
  5. 10. Sutherland≈85%
  6. 11. Willoughby≈83%
  7. 12. Campbelltown (NSW)≈83%
  8. 13. Fairfield≈81%
  9. ⋯
  10. 32. North Sydney≈42%
  11. 33. Sydney≈5%

Heritage

  1. 1. Hunters Hill≈58%
  2. 2. Sydney≈54%
  3. ⋯
  4. 5. Woollahra≈31%
  5. 6. Burwood≈24%
  6. 7. Willoughby≈23%
  7. 8. Mosman≈23%
  8. 9. Waverley≈19%
  9. ⋯
  10. 32. Blacktown≈1%
  11. 33. Blue Mountains≈0%

Highly restricted

  1. 1. Wollondilly≈100%
  2. 2. Blue Mountains≈100%
  3. ⋯
  4. 13. Ryde≈87%
  5. 14. Sutherland≈86%
  6. 15. Willoughby≈86%
  7. 16. The Hills≈85%
  8. 17. Burwood≈82%
  9. ⋯
  10. 32. Sydney≈62%
  11. 33. North Sydney≈59%

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

Suburbs in Willoughby

11 suburbs sit inside this council.

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

  1. Chatswood West≈100%
  2. Willoughby East≈100%
  3. Castle Cove≈100%
  4. Castlecrag≈99%
  5. Northbridge (NSW)≈91%
  6. North Willoughby≈90%
  7. Naremburn≈87%
  8. Willoughby (NSW)≈83%
  9. Chatswood≈75%
  10. Artarmon≈73%
  11. Lane Cove North≈68%
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Sydney context

Willoughby ranks #15 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

Willoughby’s residential planning controls, polygon-by-polygon

Every residential zone in Willoughby

  1. Environmental LivingC43 km²21.9%
  2. Low Density ResidentialR29 km²63.0%
  3. Medium Density ResidentialR31 km²8.7%
  4. High Density ResidentialR4<1 km²1.5%
  5. Commercial CentreE2<1 km²2.7%
  6. Mixed UseMU1<1 km²2.1%
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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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