Creative, history-layered inner-west suburb 7 km south of the Sydney CBD, named after St Peters Anglican Church — consecrated in 1838, the third-oldest Anglican church in Sydney and claimed to be the first built in Australia with non-convict labour. St Peters was a major brickmaking centre from the 1870s — brickworks eventually covered most of the land east of the Princes Highway — and the old Bedford Brickworks site opposite the station is now part of Sydney Park; the suburb's former tip later became the WestConnex St Peters Interchange. Today the surviving residential pocket west of the Princes Highway, between King Street and the railway line, has a compact village feel with its shopping strip running along the highway into King Street, Newtown. The 2021 census counted 3,629 residents — up 15.4% since 2016 — with 30–39-year-olds the dominant age group and professional occupations the most common, giving the suburb its young, creative-professional inner-west character. Landmarks include Camdenville Oval and the Town & Country Hotel, immortalised in Slim Dusty's 'Duncan'.
At a Glance
| Field | Details |
|---|---|
| Region | Inner West |
| Council (LGA) | Inner West Council |
| Postcode | 2044 |
| Distance to Sydney CBD | St Peters is about 7 km south of the Sydney CBD, and St Peters station is roughly 3 stops from Central on the T4 line via Erskineville and… |
| Median house price | $1,852,000 (median house price, CoreLogic via YIP, 33 sales over the past 12 months, +7.99% annual growth); realestate.com.au put the 12-month median at $1,803,000 (46 sales, +16%) and OnTheHouse's AVM median value at $1,757,426 — sold medians cluster around $1.75–1.85M (mid-2026) |
| Median unit price | $941,000 ; OnTheHouse's AVM median value for units is $1,033,899 and a 2025 tracker put the unit median at $918,000 (+14%) — unit medians… |
| Typical rent | ~$1,000/week for houses and ~$880/week for units ; unit rental yields around 4.5% |
| Price growth | Houses +7.99% over 12 months; units −3.83% over 12 months ; realestate.com.au reported +16% for houses over its 46-sale window |
Transport
St Peters railway station, a heritage-listed station opened 15 October 1884 on the Illawarra line at the junction of King Street and Sydney Park Road, is served by T4 Eastern Suburbs & Illawarra Line trains. Buses run along the King Street/Princes Highway corridor past the station — routes include the 308 (Marrickville Metro–Central via Redfern) and the 422 (Kogarah–Central), which stop at King Street opposite St Peters station (moovit route data). The suburb's main shopping strip lines the Princes Highway, leading into King Street, Newtown, and the WestConnex St Peters Interchange occupies the eastern part of the suburb on the former tip site.
Schools
St Peters Public School — NSW government primary school (K–6, around 170 students) on Church Street in St Peters 2044 (bettereducation listing; schoolmykids address). The school traces its origins to the parish school begun by St Peters Church in 1849, with a permanent building opened on Cooks River Road in 1855 before being taken over by the Department of Education in 1881.
Shopping & Amenities
The village shopping strip runs along the Princes Highway, leading into King Street, Newtown, with small shops and cafes clustered around the station end of the strip. Historic pubs anchor the village: the Town & Country Hotel — immortalised in Slim Dusty's 'Duncan' — and the Southern Cross Hotel on the corner of Princes Highway and Canal Road. Sydney Park's wetlands, playground, skate park and cycle track lie directly opposite St Peters station's entrance, on the suburb's border with Alexandria/Erskineville (NSW Trains wiki; Sydney Park sources). The St Peters branch of Inner West Library operates from the former St Peters town hall (built 1927) just across the suburb boundary in Sydenham on Unwins Bridge Road.
Parks & Outdoors
Sydney Park — the 41.6-hectare multi-award-winning inner-city park with wetlands, a large playground, skate park, cycle track and sports oval — sits directly opposite St Peters station's entrance and wraps the suburb's north-eastern edge; sources variously place the parkland in Alexandria (bordering Newtown and Erskineville) or describe it as spanning Alexandria and St Peters. Camdenville Oval, between May Street and the railway line, is the suburb's main local sporting reserve. The Cooks River corridor, Tempe Recreation Reserve and the river cycleway begin immediately south of the suburb in adjacent Tempe/Sydenham. Around 3.7% of St Peters' 1.8 km² is parkland, spread across five parks.
Property Market
The median house price in St Peters was around $1,852,000 (median house price, CoreLogic via YIP, 33 sales over the past 12 months, +7.99% annual growth); realestate.com.au put the 12-month median at $1,803,000 (46 sales, +16%) and OnTheHouse's AVM median value at $1,757,426 — sold medians cluster around $1.75–1.85M (mid-2026). See our full Sydney property price map for how the suburb compares across the city. St Peters is a small suburb (1.8 km²) that grew 15.4% between the 2016 and 2021 censuses (3,145 → 3,629) as young professional households moved in — 30–39 is the dominant age group and professional occupations predominate, with 52.9% of homes owner-occupied in 2021. Tracker spread is wide for houses reflecting very low sales volumes (~33–46 house sales a year); units are steadier around $918K–1.03M. Historic housing stock is a mix of small brick cottages west of the highway plus post-2000 apartment growth near the station.
New Developments
WestConnex St Peters Interchange — the major road interchange built on the former tip/brickworks land occupies the eastern part of the suburb, a site larger than the entire residential part of St Peters; the interchange land has anchored the suburb's transformation from industrial land to transport infrastructure and freed the remaining residential pocket's identity. Apartment growth and urban renewal — new off-the-plan and recent apartment developments are concentrated around St Peters station and along the Princes Highway/King Street corridor, with Inner West Council's DA pipeline (tracked via PlanTrack and stickybeak's development-pipeline pages) showing continued small-scale housing supply in the suburb and immediate surrounds. Heritage protection tempers density: St Peters Anglican Church and the 1884 station are heritage-listed, and the suburb's village-scale residential core sits west of the highway between King Street and the railway.
Jobs & Local Economy
Professional and creative-sector work dominates — at the 2021 census the most common occupation group in St Peters was professionals, with most residents working in professional occupations. Local employment is centred on the King Street/Princes Highway retail strip's shops, cafes, pubs and creative-industry tenants in the former warehouse and light-industrial buildings around the suburb's edge, while the T4's roughly 12–15-minute CBD commute and 7 km road distance to the city make central Sydney the biggest workplace for residents.
Nearby Suburbs
Newtown, Erskineville, Alexandria, Tempe, Sydenham
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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