Question 1

Is Kurnell a nice place to live?

Accepted Answer

Kurnell sits on the Kurnell Peninsula in southern Sydney’s Sutherland Shire, a coastal suburb defined by sweeping headlands, sandstone cliffs and large pockets of Kamay Botany Bay National Park that include Cape Solander and the historic Captain Cook landing place. Residential streets are mostly lowset houses and older cottages with some waterfront pockets, and recreation centres on walking tracks, picnics, fishing and whale watching. The community is small — about 2,528 people with a median age of 38 — and families are prominent, while roughly five in six dwellings are owner-occupied.

Everyday needs are met by a small village strip, with larger services in nearby centres, and there is active planning and infrastructure work for the peninsula: a precinct-scale rezoning proposal, consultations on battery energy storage systems at local sites, and progressing open-space and park masterplans plus recent upgrades at Bonna Point Reserve. That mix suits people after a quieter, outdoors-oriented coastal life and those who want an established, family-weighted suburb that is also facing change through planned projects. Whether it suits you will depend on how you feel about those changes and about living close to national-park foreshore.

Question 2

Is it expensive to live in Kurnell?

Accepted Answer

House rents in Kurnell run to about $960 a week. Against a typical local household income of $2,161 a week as recorded at the last Census, that rent would take roughly 44.4% of income, which is a large share of a household's weekly earnings. For people renting rather than buying, that rent share is the most relevant figure when judging how costly it is to live here.

Everyone's financial situation is different, so it's important to consider your own circumstances when deciding which suburb is right for you.

Question 3

Is Kurnell a good place to invest?

Accepted Answer

Over the past 12 months Kurnell's median house value fell 7.5%. House rents also declined, down 4.0% over the year, so house prices have dropped more steeply than the rent those houses are earning. For someone weighing Kurnell up as an investment, the value change relates to capital movement and the rent change relates to rental income, and which of those matters most will depend on your goals and circumstances.

This information has been prepared without taking your objectives, needs and overall financial situation into account. It is not meant to be a substitute for professional financial advice. For this reason, you should consider the appropriateness of the information and, if necessary, seek appropriate professional advice.

	Houses	Units
Median price Past 3 months	N/A	N/A
Change in value Past 12 months	-7.5%	N/A
Sold Past 3 months	10	N/A
Median days on market Past 12 months	59	N/A
Average rent Past 12 months	$960	N/A
Change in rent Past 12 months	-4.0%	N/A

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