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18 Scales Parade, Balgowlah Heights NSW 2093

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Flood
Clear
Not within a mapped flood area.
Bushfire
Clear
Not within a mapped bushfire hazard area.
Zoning
Residential
Low density residential — mostly detached houses on standard suburban blocks.

Council zone: Low Density Residential

School catchment
4 zones
PrimaryBalgowlah Heights Public School
SecondaryThe Forest High School
SecondaryNorthern Beaches Secondary College Mackellar Girls Campus
SecondaryNorthern Beaches Secondary College Balgowlah Boys Campus
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Property values

Median sale price across Balgowlah Heights's postcode area

Houses
$3,580,000+2.29%
Postcode-area median · Q4 2025
Units & apartments
$1,143,000-4.55%
Postcode-area median · Q4 2025

Postcode-area median — NSW figures are reported by postcode, so this covers Balgowlah Heights and nearby suburbs sharing its postcode. Not a valuation of this specific property. Source: NSW DCJ Rent and Sales Report — sales tables (postcode).

Crime

Reported offences around Northern Beaches

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2,934
offences per 100k — Northern Beaches council area
7,760
reported offences (last 12 months) in the Northern Beaches council area
05001,000202120222023202420252026

Reported offences in the Northern Beaches council area over time

Development in the area

New dwellings approved across Northern Beaches council

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560
Dwellings/yr
342
Houses
218
Units
05001,0002020202120222023202420252026

New dwellings approved in the 12 months to May 2026, across the whole Northern Beaches council area (not just this address). Source: ABS Building Approvals.

Who lives here

29.9% of Balgowlah Heights’s 3,546 residents were born overseas

Top ancestries

English46.5%
Australian32.1%
Irish14%
Scottish13.1%
Chinese4.2%
German4.2%

Top countries of birth

England10.6%
South Africa2.7%
New Zealand2.2%
United States1.2%
China1%
Scotland0.8%

Suburb-level profile for Balgowlah Heights, not this specific address. Ancestry counts people reporting each ancestry (up to two each), as a share of responses. Source: ABS 2021 Census.

A note on insurance. This is government flood and bushfire mapping — the public data that insurers’ databases (NFID) are built from. Insurers price using proprietary, address-level models (and Bushfire Attack Level for bushfire), so use this to inform an insurance quote, not replace one.

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Indicative only — verify with the relevant council or department before relying on it. Sources: NSW Department of Planning (land zoning & flood-planning overlays), NSW Rural Fire Service (bushfire-prone land), NSW Department of Education (school catchments), NSW BOCSAR (crime), Geoscape G-NAF (addresses).