Caringbah South, NSW 2229

Leafy, waterfront suburb of southern Sydney on the Port Hacking coastline, about 25 km south of the Sydney CBD in the Sutherland Shire LGA. Caringbah South sits on a peninsula on the north shore of the Port Hacking estuary, forming the eastern border of Burraneer Bay and the western border of Yowie Bay, and was part of Caringbah until declared a separate suburb in 2008. At the 2021 census it had 13,168 residents with a median weekly household income of $2,721 — well above the NSW average of $1,829 — reflecting its affluent, family-oriented, largely waterfront character. Buyers' agents describe it as a prestigious Sutherland Shire suburb of upscale homes and waterfront properties along Burraneer Bay and the Port Hacking River (Compound).

At a Glance

Transport

Caringbah South has no railway station of its own; the nearest is Caringbah station on the Cronulla branch of the T4 Eastern Suburbs & Illawarra line, in the immediately adjacent suburb of Caringbah to the north. Bus services are operated by U-Go Mobility: the Caringbah article records buses running to Lilli Pilli, South Cronulla, Hurstville, Sutherland, Cronulla and Dolans Bay, and route 977 runs between Lilli Pilli Point and Caringbah and Westfield Miranda along the Port Hacking Road corridor that passes through Caringbah South.

Schools

Caringbah Public School — NSW government primary school (K–6) on Port Hacking Road South, physically located in Caringbah South: the suburb of Caringbah's own article lists it as 'Caringbah Public School (located in Caringbah South)', opposite the small café strip, and school directories geo-code it to Caringbah South 2229. Laguna Street Public School — NSW government primary school (K–6, about 464 students in 2023) also geo-coded to Caringbah South 2229 by property aggregators, at the suburb's northern end near the Caringbah border. No secondary school sits within Caringbah South: high school students attend schools in the immediately adjacent suburb of Caringbah to the north — including Caringbah High School, Endeavour Sports High School and De La Salle Catholic College Caringbah (boys, Years 7–12) — or Our Lady of Fatima Catholic Primary School.

Shopping & Amenities

Retail in Caringbah South is limited to small local strips: a group of cafés and restaurants on Port Hacking Road South opposite Caringbah Public School, and another small group of shops further south close to the border with Lilli Pilli; the suburb is otherwise made up mostly of small professional-services businesses, with no major shopping centre in the suburb. For supermarkets and full retail residents go to Caringbah's commercial centre just north, Miranda (Westfield) to the north-west, or the Cronulla town centre — all in adjoining or nearby suburbs.

Parks & Outdoors

Waterfront living on Port Hacking is the suburb's defining feature: Caringbah South forms the eastern border of Burraneer Bay and the western border of Yowie Bay, with bayside frontage, boating, sailing and fishing along both bays and the Port Hacking estuary to the south. The E. G. Waterhouse National Camellia Garden — the national camellia collection, laid out by the garden's namesake Eben Gowrie Waterhouse — sits within the suburb and contains a memorial fountain to Elizabeth Batts Cook, wife of Captain James Cook. The heritage-listed Fernleigh (44–46 Fernleigh Road), with its historic gardens, is the suburb's other notable green landmark, and council data counts roughly 13 parks covering about 3.3% of the suburb's area.

Property Market

The median house price in Caringbah South was around ~$2.5M (auspropertyfinder median house price, last 12 months to mid-2026, +6.4% on the prior 12 months, NSW Valuer General sales); realestate.com.au reported a $2,250,000 12-month house median; quickproperty's latest-period median is $2.5M (+3.1% YoY); allhomes lists a $2,340,000 median house sale price (mid-2026). See our full Sydney property price map for how the suburb compares across the city. Caringbah South is a genuinely thin, high-end market: roughly 114 house sales a year (about 2.5% turnover), and 72% of dwellings are houses on mostly large 700 m²+ lots (quickproperty). Published medians cluster around $2.25M–$2.5M across trackers for the suburb as a whole, but houses on or near Burraneer Bay and Yowie Bay frontage with Port Hacking views sell well above that — realistic planning is ~$2.3–2.6M for a typical house with a strong waterfront premium, not the $3M+ figures that waterfront-only samples sometimes imply. Price-to-income ratio of ~17.8x is stretched and gross rental yield is low (~1.8–2.2%), reflecting an owner-occupier luxury market (quickproperty; auspropertyfinder).

New Developments

Development is minimal — Caringbah South is a settled, low-density peninsula suburb of large family homes with no major projects documented. Activity is small-scale and mostly private: renovations and knock-down rebuilds on large waterfront and bayside lots, in a suburb that only became a separate entity when it was carved out of Caringbah in 2008.

Jobs & Local Economy

Local employment is limited to small businesses along Port Hacking Road South (professional services, cafés and restaurants) plus teaching and support staff at Caringbah Public School and Laguna Street Public School. Most residents commute out of the suburb — to the Sutherland Shire's main employment and retail hubs (Caringbah, Miranda, Cronulla and Sutherland) or to the Sydney CBD via Caringbah station on the T4 line, with quickproperty estimating a 34-minute free-flow drive and ~79-minute transit trip to the city.

Nearby Suburbs

Caringbah, Burraneer, Miranda, Dolans Bay, Yowie Bay, Lilli Pilli, Port Hacking

Sources & method

Researched 4 September 2026 from named public sources — census and government records, transport authorities, council and planning documents — plus published sales data. Where sources disagree on a figure, the guide says so rather than picking one.

Sources cited in this guide:

• Wikipedia — Caringbah South
• Wikipedia — Caringbah
• Wikipedia — Lilli Pilli
• NSW Government

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