Ebenezer, NSW 2756

A historic, heritage-rich village on the north bank of the Hawkesbury River, about 5 km north-east of Wilberforce and 69 km north-west of the Sydney CBD, in the City of Hawkesbury LGA. It is one of Australia's most significant early-settlement sites: settled from 1803 by free settlers, the village grew up around Ebenezer Uniting Church (95 Coromandel Road), a sandstone Presbyterian chapel built 1808–09 but not fitted out until 1817 that is regarded as the oldest standing church building in Australia, and the old schoolhouse precinct including a schoolmaster's residence from 1810/1817 that is the oldest surviving school building in the country. At the 2021 census Ebenezer had 1,081 residents, and it still presents as a quiet, straggling riverside farming village of acreage lots and heritage buildings rather than a conventional suburb — 'a typical, slightly chaotic, Hawkesbury Valley village'.

At a Glance

Transport

Ebenezer has no railway station and no rail line — the nearest stations are at Windsor and Richmond, several kilometres to the south-west. Public transport is limited to infrequent buses: route 669 runs between Sackville and Wilberforce via Ebenezer along the village's rural roads, and the area is otherwise car-dependent. Immediately north of the village the free Sackville vehicle ferry crosses the Hawkesbury River on Sackville Road, connecting the Windsor and Wisemans Ferry road networks — historically the river crossing that served Ebenezer and is visible in views of the church precinct.

Schools

Ebenezer Public School — NSW government primary school in-suburb on Coromandel Road; the present public school building opened in 1902 (with about 120 enrolments), though the site's educational history reaches back to 1810 when John Youl taught the first classes in the church, making the Ebenezer school precinct the oldest school site in Australia.

Shopping & Amenities

Ebenezer has no shops, supermarket or commercial strip — it is a heritage village whose few public facilities are clustered around the church precinct. The Ebenezer Uniting Church complex at 95 Coromandel Road is open daily 10am–3pm and still holds Sunday services; the adjoining Old Schoolhouse operates as a small museum of settler photographs and furniture with a book and craft shop and Devonshire teas, and the churchyard cemetery holds six generations of burials including some of the colony's first free settlers. Other heritage tourism landmarks include John Turnbull's sandstone house (c.1807–10) and Tizzana Winery at 518 Tizzana Road, a winery in an 1887 stone building on the Hawkesbury riverbank (Aussie Towns). Day-to-day shopping and services are a short drive away in adjacent Wilberforce, about 5 km to the south-west.

Parks & Outdoors

The village sits on the banks of the Hawkesbury River, with riverside frontage, flood-prone river flats and farming country shaping the landscape along Coromandel and Tizzana Roads. Ebenezer Uniting Church's grounds and historic cemetery — where the first burial was in 1812 and coffins were once rowed up the river — sit above the north bank and are the suburb's key outdoor-heritage destination. Boating, fishing and river recreation are part of local life, and the Sackville car ferry crossing the Hawkesbury just to the north connects Ebenezer's river culture to the Sackville side.

Property Market

The median house price in Ebenezer was around ~$1.35M–$1.5M median (realestate.com.au suburb data: median sale price $1,350,000; Cotality/RP Data via propertyvalue.com.au: median house value $1.5M on just 13 sales in 12 months; OnTheHouse median house value in a similar band with 5-year growth +42.5%) (mid-2026). See our full Sydney property price map for how the suburb compares across the city. Ebenezer is a classic acreage/heritage market with an extremely thin sales sample — only 13 house sales in the 12 months to mid/late 2026 and tracker medians spread from $1.35M to $1.5M to a nominal $1.65M 4-bedroom median based on just 3 sales — so medians should be read with caution. Housing is predominantly separate houses on large rural lots in flood-prone Hawkesbury River valley country, which keeps insurance and lending considerations relevant; unit/strata stock is negligible (all trackers show no meaningful unit market). Rentals are scarce (~62 active bonds). Historical flooding of the Hawkesbury Valley is a recurring feature of the area.

New Developments

Development activity in Ebenezer is minimal and deliberately so — it is a heritage village in a rural zoning with the Ebenezer Church precinct listed on the NSW State Heritage Register, and no significant residential estate or commercial project is under way inside the suburb. The housing market turns over only about 13 houses a year, reflecting restrictive acreage supply rather than new development. Growth in the district has been steered to release areas such as Glossodia and Pitt Town rather than into Ebenezer itself (Hawkesbury suburban geography).

Jobs & Local Economy

Local employment in Ebenezer is limited to farming and acreage-based rural enterprises, home businesses, and heritage-tourism operations clustered around the church precinct and Tizzana Winery. There is no major employer in the village; working residents mostly commute to the Windsor–Wilberforce corridor and wider Hawkesbury/Richmond employment areas, or into Sydney.

Nearby Suburbs

Wilberforce, East Kurrajong, Sackville, Sackville North, South Maroota

Sources & method

Researched 5 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.

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