Sackville, NSW 2756

Sackville is a historic, quiet riverside village on the Hawkesbury River about 70 km north-west of the Sydney CBD, in the City of Hawkesbury, with just 230 residents at the 2021 census. Known to the local Indigenous people as Doorumboloo, it sits on the alluvial floodplain of the river and is the site of the Sackville Ferry, a car ferry that crosses the Hawkesbury to Sackville North. The suburb is home to five National Heritage-listed sites — three residences, St Thomas' Anglican Church and the Sackville Cemetery, which dates back to 1828 — and its history as a river port and market-garden district is written across the heritage homesteads that line Sackville, Tizzana and West Portland Roads. Around it the river reach upstream of Windsor became a cradle of Australian water-skiing — the first female to represent Australia in the world water-skiing titles in 1953 began the sport at Sackville — and the village remains a quiet acreage-and-riverfront community popular with skiers and weekenders.

At a Glance

Transport

Sackville has no railway station — the nearest rail is the T1 Richmond line, with Windsor station roughly 20 km away via Sackville Road, the main road into the village from Windsor. No scheduled bus route serves the Sackville riverbank village; Wikipedia documents no bus service to the suburb, whose transport history is entirely river-based (steamers once linked Sackville to Sydney until the river silted and it became the head of navigation for seagoing vessels in the 1880s). The key local link is the Sackville Ferry: a free, toll-free cable car ferry operated by a private contractor under Transport for NSW that crosses the 290-metre river reach (about a 3-minute crossing) from Sackville to Sackville North, carrying up to 12 cars, running on demand 24 hours a day and closing only for maintenance on the first Wednesday of each month, 12:45–3:15pm; it is the farthest upstream of four vehicular cable ferries between Windsor Bridge and Brooklyn (Lower Portland, Webbs Creek and Wisemans ferries lie downstream) and a ferry has operated at Sackville since at least 1883, possibly the 1870s.

Schools

No school operates within Sackville itself, and none of its immediately adjacent suburbs (Sackville North, Ebenezer, East Kurrajong or Wilberforce) has an open public school except Ebenezer: Sackville North Public School, across the river in the adjacent suburb of Sackville North — where children from the Sackville side once rowed boats to school — ran as a provisional school from 1868 and as a public school from January 1878 until it closed in December 1972 (Gov Schools of NSW 1848–1998 via Hawkesbury People & Places). The local government school serving the Sackville river district today is Ebenezer Public School, the NSW K–6 primary in the immediately adjacent suburb of Ebenezer to the south-east, whose site is historic — a school has operated at Ebenezer since 1810 and the present public school opened in 1902, with the former schoolmaster's residence (1817) claimed as the oldest existing school building in Australia. Secondary students travel on to high schools in Windsor/Richmond.

Shopping & Amenities

Sackville is a residential riverside village with no shopping precinct — Wikipedia records no shops, general store or commercial centre in the suburb, and the nearest village retail is at Wilberforce/Ebenezer or Windsor (about 20 km via Sackville Road). What the village does have is heritage and riverside recreation: St Thomas' Anglican Church, a Victorian Gothic church built in the 1870s after the 1867 flood swept away the original church at the cemetery (extensively repaired after a 1959 fire); the St Thomas Cemetery at the northern tip of Tizzana Road, dating to 1828 and one of five National Heritage-listed sites in the suburb; Lilburndale, the c.1850 homestead at 413 West Portland Road that began operating as a wedding venue in 2021; and the Sackville Ski Gardens and caravan park on the river at the north end of Tizzana Road, the village's long-standing water-ski and caravan destination.

Parks & Outdoors

The Hawkesbury River frontage is Sackville's defining outdoor asset: the village occupies a stretch of the river's alluvial floodplain (about 7 m elevation) where the straight reach along the northern end of Tizzana Road is popular for water-skiing, home to the Sackville Ski Gardens and caravan park and the historic Daragyle ski park, and the ferry crossing anchors the riverbank. The suburb's Georgian-era cemetery and church sit above the river, and its flood history is part of the landscape — the original St Thomas' church was swept away in the 1867 flood. The river here is the upper Hawkesbury between Windsor Bridge and the Colo junction, a broad, quiet waterway used for skiing, fishing and boating.

Property Market

The median house price in Sackville was around $885,053 — median house value, Cotality/RP Data automated valuation as at 31 July 2026 (OnTheHouse) (mid-2026). See our full Sydney property price map for how the suburb compares across the city. An extremely thin market: Sackville holds only about 104 properties, and Cotality recorded just 2 sales in the 12 months to July 2026, with nothing listed for sale or rent at that snapshot. The median is therefore an AVM estimate rather than a sales-based figure and should be read as indicative only — and it sits well below the suggested ~$1.3–1.9M range: the tracker's $885K reflects a mix dominated by modest floodplain houses and smaller riverfront lots, while premium acreage-and-riverfront holdings, when they trade, sell far higher individually. Flood risk on the Hawkesbury floodplain is a material consideration for values here. No unit or rental market exists (median_unit and rental null).

New Developments

Development is minimal: with only 2 recorded sales in 12 months and no listings at the July 2026 snapshot, there is no project pipeline — activity is limited to one-off homes on rural/floodplain acreage under Hawkesbury planning controls. The most notable recent changes are heritage and recreation-led rather than residential: Lilburndale (c.1850) began operating as a wedding venue in 2021, and the long-established Sackville Ski Gardens and caravan park continues as the suburb's main commercial-recreation presence.

Jobs & Local Economy

Local employment is small-scale and tied to the river: agriculture and market-garden heritage on the Hawkesbury floodplain, plus the recreation/tourism uses of the Ski Gardens and caravan park and the wedding-venue trade at Lilburndale. With a population of just 230 and no commercial centre, most working residents commute out — Windsor, Wilberforce and the wider Hawkesbury/Richmond employment area are the main destinations, reached via Sackville Road.

Nearby Suburbs

Sackville North, Ebenezer, East Kurrajong, Wilberforce

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 — Sackville
• Wikipedia — Sackville Ferry

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