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1/59 Princes Highway, West Wollongong NSW 2500

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Flood
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Bushfire
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Zoning
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Council zone: Tourist

School catchment
2 zones
PrimaryMount St Thomas Public School
SecondaryFigtree High School
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Property values

Median sale price across West Wollongong's postcode area

Houses
$1,275,000+15.38%
Postcode-area median · Q4 2025
Units & apartments
$870,000+27.94%
Postcode-area median · Q4 2025

Postcode-area median — NSW figures are reported by postcode, so this covers West Wollongong 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 Wollongong

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8,838
offences per 100k — Wollongong council area
18,971
reported offences (last 12 months) in the Wollongong council area
01,2502,500202120222023202420252026

Reported offences in the Wollongong council area over time

Development in the area

New dwellings approved across Wollongong council

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1,560
Dwellings/yr
402
Houses
1,158
Units
01,0002,0002020202120222023202420252026

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

Who lives here

24.5% of West Wollongong’s 5,223 residents were born overseas

Top ancestries

English31.5%
Australian30.9%
Irish11%
Scottish9.5%
Italian5.7%
German3.6%

Top countries of birth

England2.5%
India1.6%
New Zealand1.4%
China1.3%
North Macedonia0.9%
Thailand0.8%

Suburb-level profile for West Wollongong, 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).