Leafy, bush-fringed residential suburb on Sydney's Upper North Shore, located 23 km north-west of the CBD and entirely within Ku-ring-gai Council — the Ku-ring-gai/Hornsby LGA split applies to neighbouring Wahroonga, not to North Wahroonga itself. It is a separate suburb north of Wahroonga, bounded by the M1 (F3) Pacific Motorway on the west and Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park on the north. At the 2021 census it had 2,100 residents, 58.0% of them born in Australia (China 7.0% and South Africa 5.2% the next most common birthplaces), living in large family homes on quiet, tree-lined streets. Local agents describe it as a 'leafy, tightly held' family suburb of prestige homes with a bushland backdrop, roughly 23 km from the CBD (The Marshall Group).
At a Glance
| Field | Details |
|---|---|
| Region | Upper North Shore |
| Council (LGA) | Ku-ring-gai Council |
| Postcode | 2076 |
| Distance to Sydney CBD | North Wahroonga is about 23 km north-west of the Sydney CBD. The M1 Pacific Motorway forms the suburb's western boundary… |
| Median house price | ~$2.7M — realestate.com.au put North Wahroonga's median sale price at $2,665,000; OnTheHouse's median house value is $2,761,110; htag's typical house price is $2,752,838 (mid-2026) |
| Median unit price | $1,921,993 |
| Typical rent | ~$1,350–1,500/week — htag median rent $1,362/week; propertyvalue.com.au median rent $1,525/week with a small rental pool |
| Price growth | 1.1% ; median house value up 50.29% over five years |
Transport
North Wahroonga is bus-served and has no railway station within its boundaries. CDC NSW operates two loop bus services through the suburb: route 576 (North Wahroonga to Wahroonga) and route 576T (North Wahroonga to Turramurra). The nearest station is Wahroonga railway station in the adjacent suburb of Wahroonga to the south — on the North Shore railway line with frequent Sydney Trains services to Central and Hornsby — while Hornsby station sits just across the M1 motorway in adjacent Hornsby.
Schools
No school sits within North Wahroonga itself — there is no 'North Wahroonga Public School'. The suburb's local government primary school is Wahroonga Public School (known as 'the Bush School', at 71 Burns Road in adjacent Wahroonga, about 1.7 km from North Wahroonga homes), whose catchment covers North Wahroonga addresses. Government secondary schooling is at Ku-ring-gai High School, a co-educational comprehensive on Bobbin Head Road in adjacent North Turramurra, which borders North Wahroonga. Leading private schools in adjacent Wahroonga — Abbotsleigh School for Girls, Knox Grammar, Prouille Catholic Primary, St Edmund's College and Wahroonga Adventist School — take many local students, though none has a campus inside North Wahroonga.
Shopping & Amenities
North Wahroonga is almost entirely residential, with no shopping centre or village within the suburb; retail consists of scattered local businesses only. Residents shop at Wahroonga Village — the main shopping and commercial area of adjacent Wahroonga, located beside its railway station — and at Westfield Hornsby and the Hornsby town-centre shops in adjacent Hornsby across the M1. The suburb's community life centres on Ku-ring-gai Council facilities and the bushland around it rather than a local commercial hub.
Parks & Outdoors
North Wahroonga is a genuine bush-adjacent suburb: it is 'bounded by the Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park on the north' and by the M1 freeway on the west, with the park effectively at the end of its streets. Native bushland near Cliff Avenue on the park fringe is used for abseiling and bushwalking. For organised recreation, residents use Ku-ring-gai Council parks in adjacent Wahroonga, such as Wahroonga Park with its manicured gardens and popular fenced playground, and Golden Jubilee Field playground (Ku-ring-gai Council).
Property Market
The median house price in North Wahroonga was around ~$2.7M — realestate.com.au put North Wahroonga's median sale price at $2,665,000; OnTheHouse's median house value is $2,761,110; htag's typical house price is $2,752,838 (mid-2026). See our full Sydney property price map for how the suburb compares across the city. North Wahroonga is a tightly held, premium Upper North Shore market with thin turnover: propertyvalue.com.au counted 25 property sales and OnTheHouse 757 total properties. Trackers cluster the house median in the $2.66–2.8M band, comfortably within the prestige end for the area; units/villas are rare and their reported medians rest on very few sales. Rental stock is limited, with quoted medians between roughly $1,350 and $1,525/week and gross yields around 2.5%.
New Developments
Development activity in North Wahroonga is minimal: it is a long-established, tightly held suburb with few vacant sites, hemmed in by the M1 motorway and Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park, so new supply is limited to individual renovations and rebuilds of the area's large 1920s–1970s homes. No major residential or commercial projects are currently marketed in the suburb.
Jobs & Local Economy
North Wahroonga is a commuter suburb with negligible local employment — it has no commercial centre, and work locally is limited to scattered businesses and home-based activity. Most residents commute to the Sydney CBD (by car on the M1 or via Wahroonga station) or to the Hornsby town-centre employment hub in adjacent Hornsby, with the Sydney Adventist Hospital and Wahroonga Village health/retail precinct in adjacent Wahroonga also significant nearby employers.
Nearby Suburbs
Asquith, Hornsby, Mount Colah, North Turramurra, Wahroonga, Waitara
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.
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