Ramsgate, NSW 2217

Bayside suburb in Sydney's St George area, 16 km south of the CBD, sitting just back from Botany Bay with the waterfront — Lady Robinsons Beach, Cook Park and Ramsgate Beach Baths — in the adjacent suburb of Ramsgate Beach to the east. At the 2021 census it had just 1,151 residents and the suburb is almost entirely residential: a mix of post-war-era homes and low-rise units around a small shopping strip at the corner of Rocky Point Road and Ramsgate Road (post office, The Intersection pub), with the supermarket-anchored Ramsgate Beach strip and the Ramsgate RSL Club just over the border. It has a strong Greek-Australian thread — Greek was spoken at home by 12.4% of residents at the 2021 census, the highest non-English language share — and is a quiet, family-oriented pocket popular with buyers wanting a calm bayside lifestyle minutes from the sand.

At a Glance

Transport

Bus-based: Ramsgate has no railway station. Transit Systems buses run along the Rocky Point Road and Grand Parade corridor — including route 478, which links Westfield Miranda to Rockdale railway station via Ramsgate and Brighton-Le-Sands — connecting to Kogarah and Rockdale railway stations on the T4 Illawarra line, each around a 10-minute bus ride away. The district's rail history explains the layout: the line reached Rockdale in 1884 and a tramway ran from Rockdale to the beach (via Bay Street) from 1885 until buses replaced it in 1949.

Schools

Ramsgate Public School — NSW government K–6 primary school whose campus on Chuter Avenue sits in adjacent Ramsgate Beach (same postcode, 2217), just east of Ramsgate across Rocky Point Road (NSW Department of Education). St Finbar's Catholic Primary School — systemic Catholic primary in adjacent Sans Souci, opened in 1926 and today part of Sydney Catholic Schools (Sydney Catholic Schools). Public high school options are in adjacent Kogarah: James Cook Boys High School (government boys' secondary) and St George Girls High School (selective girls' secondary); under a NSW Department of Education restructure for the Kogarah–Rockdale area, James Cook and Moorefield Girls high schools are set to combine into a new co-educational high school from 2026 (NSW Department of Education; schoolsinaustralia.com).

Shopping & Amenities

The local shopping strip runs along Rocky Point Road near its intersection with Ramsgate Road — a small group of shops including the post office and the 'Intersection' pub — while the larger, supermarket-anchored Ramsgate Beach strip (Ramsgate Beach Plaza) lies just over the border on Ramsgate Road near The Grand Parade in adjacent Ramsgate Beach, where the Ramsgate RSL Club also stands on the boundary. Cafes, the Cook Park restaurant kiosk and bayside dining are a short stroll away at the Ramsgate Beach foreshore, which fronts Lady Robinsons Beach.

Parks & Outdoors

Ramsgate itself is a mostly residential pocket, and its outdoor life centres on the Botany Bay foreshore of adjacent Ramsgate Beach: Lady Robinsons Beach (the shoreline renamed in 1874 after Governor Sir Hercules Robinson's wife, formerly 'Seven Mile Beach') runs along that suburb's eastern edge, backed by Cook Park with picnic areas, playgrounds, a restaurant and the Ramsgate surf life saving club, and the open-air Ramsgate Beach Baths sit at the water's edge. The area's parkland tradition dates to the 1830s, when Scarborough Park was created out of the former Pat Moore's (Patmore) Swamp. The Grand Parade foreshore path links north through Cook Park toward the Cooks River mouth and Brighton-Le-Sands, and south toward Dolls Point.

Property Market

The median house price in Ramsgate was around ~$2.05M (median house price, June 2026, CoreLogic/Domain data via a local Century 21 Brighton-Le-Sands agent); realestate.com.au suburb data put the 3-bedroom house median at $1,690,000 for July 2025–July 2026, so the practical tracker range is roughly $1.7–2.1M (mid-2026). See our full Sydney property price map for how the suburb compares across the city. Small, tightly held bayside market: only ~1,151 residents and mostly low-density stock, so sales volumes are thin and tracker medians swing — houses range roughly $1.69M (REA 3-bed median, Jul 2025–26) to ~$2.05M (overall median, Jun 2026), and units cluster ~$795K–825K. Houses sell in ~25 days on average, with gross rental yields of ~2.6% for houses and ~4% for units. The premium end sits on the water side: neighbouring bayside medians are Ramsgate Beach ~$2.25M, Sans Souci ~$2.18M, Monterey ~$2.12M and Kogarah Bay ~$2.35M (June 2026 figures). Note the suburb's LGA split — Bayside Council east of Rocky Point Road, Georges River Council to the west — which can matter for rates and planning.

New Developments

Ramsgate's development pipeline is modest: the suburb is predominantly established post-war housing and change comes mainly as individual infill and renovations, with tight supply reflected in the ~25-day average selling time for houses. The more active growth front is on the bay side in adjacent Ramsgate Beach — the Ramsgate Beach Plaza shopping strip on Ramsgate Road and ongoing beachfront dining/redevelopment around Cook Park.

Jobs & Local Economy

Local employment centres on retail and neighbourhood services: the small shopping strips on Rocky Point Road and Ramsgate Road (post office, pub) and the Ramsgate Beach Plaza supermarket strip just across the border, with the Ramsgate RSL Club a local institution and employer. Most residents commute out of the suburb for work — Ramsgate is 16 km from the CBD with Kogarah and Rockdale stations on the T4 line a short bus ride away, and the St George commercial and health precincts of Kogarah–Rockdale plus the airport corridor are nearby.

Nearby Suburbs

Ramsgate Beach, Monterey, Kogarah, Beverley Park, Sans Souci

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.

Sources cited in this guide:

• Wikipedia — Brighton-Le-Sands
• Transport for NSW
• NSW Government

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