Barrack Heights bushfire risk
Of Barrack Heights’s 2,978 mapped properties, 0% are in a mapped flood area and 9.6% are in a bushfire hazard area.
For context, Barrack Heights’s flood exposure is below the NSW average of 5%, and bushfire exposure is below the NSW average of 16.4%.
Check a specific Barrack Heights address
Risk varies property by property.
Hazard exposure
Where the hazards are in Barrack Heights
Flood and bushfire areas across Barrack Heights. Zoom in to see how they fall relative to individual streets.
Crime near Barrack Heights
Barrack Heights sits in the Shellharbour council area, which recorded 5,187 reported offences in the 12 months to Mar 2026.
Every reported offence by type — these add up to the 5,187 total. Figures are for the whole Shellharbour council area (which may cover several suburbs), last 12 months. Reported offences only.
Property values in Barrack Heights
Median sale price by property type, reported by postcode area — suburbs sharing a postcode show the same figure.
Indicative postcode-area estimate — NSW medians are reported by postcode, so Barrack Heights shares this figure with nearby suburbs in the same postcode. Not a valuation of any specific property. Source: NSW DCJ Rent and Sales Report — sales tables (postcode).
Zoning in Barrack Heights
Barrack Heights is mostly residential. The most common zones:
Low density residential — mostly detached houses on standard suburban blocks.
Zone: Low Density Residential
Industrial / employment — factories, warehouses and trade uses; not intended for homes.
Zone: Light Industrial
Medium density residential — townhouses, terraces and low-rise units (the “missing middle”).
Zone: Medium Density Residential
School catchments in Barrack Heights
Barrack Heights can span more than one catchment — check a specific address (below) for the exact school.
Who lives in Barrack Heights
At the 2021 Census, 19.5% of Barrack Heights’s 6,003 residents were born overseas.
Top ancestries
Top countries of birth
Ancestry counts people reporting each ancestry (up to two each), as a share of responses. Source: ABS 2021 Census.
Development near Barrack Heights
Shellharbour council approved 856 new dwellings in the 12 months to Jun 2026.
New dwellings approved across the whole Shellharbour council area (not just Barrack Heights). See the council trend. Source: ABS Building Approvals.
- 135 Captain Cook Drive, Barrack Heights NSW 2528
- 19 Gipps Crescent, Barrack Heights NSW 2528
- 2 Cleary Street, Barrack Heights NSW 2528
- 31 Sammat Avenue, Barrack Heights NSW 2528
- 39 Bass Street, Barrack Heights NSW 2528
- 4 Fitzroy Place, Barrack Heights NSW 2528
- 4 Meadow Bank Place, Barrack Heights NSW 2528
- 9 Kookaburra Place, Barrack Heights NSW 2528
Nearby suburbs
Other suburbs in Shellharbour
Compare Barrack Heights with the rest of the council area, largest first.
Figures are indicative only — verify any specific property with the relevant council. Sources: council/state planning schemes & flood mapping, Geoscape G-NAF, state police crime statistics, ABS.