Tennyson, NSW 2754

A small semi-rural suburb of Sydney, located 72 km north-west of the CBD in the City of Hawkesbury local government area, with a 2021 census population of just 379. Tennyson sits on the rural terrace between North Richmond and the foothills toward Kurrajong, threaded by Tennyson Road — home to acreage lots (recent sales and listings sit along Tennyson Road, e.g. 443, 494 and 504 Tennyson Road). The census profile is mature — Domain puts the average age at 60+, with 83% owner-occupancy and a population near 385 — and the suburb's only community building is the Tennyson Volunteer Bush Fire Brigade shed, which doubles as the meeting point for the local Tennyson Water Scheme and even polling. QuickProperty describes it as a quiet locality with a median age of 47 and household income of about $111K (QuickProperty). Note: despite occasional 'riverside' marketing, the suburb's boundary runs along the northern edge of North Richmond — the Hawkesbury River itself flows through neighbouring North Richmond, roughly 3 km south of Tennyson's centre.

At a Glance

Transport

Tennyson has no railway station — the former Richmond–Kurrajong line (closed 1952) ran west of the suburb with halts at North Richmond, Kemsleys, Thompsons Ridge and Duffys, and none at Tennyson. Today public transport is bus-based: no route passes through the suburb itself, and the nearest services are Busways routes operating from adjacent North Richmond along Bells Line of Road — route 668 (Richmond to Windsor via Glossodia and Freemans Reach), route 680 (Richmond to Grose Vale loop) and route 682 (Richmond to Kurrajong or Berambing) — all connecting to Richmond station. The nearest railway station is Richmond, the terminus of the T1 Richmond line, reached by car via Bells Line of Road and the North Richmond Bridge.

Schools

There is no school within Tennyson itself — the suburb's only community building is the volunteer bush fire brigade shed. Local students attend schools in the immediately adjacent suburb of North Richmond: North Richmond Public School, a NSW government primary school on Bells Line of Road in North Richmond, and Colo High School, the government comprehensive secondary school also on Bells Line of Road in North Richmond (established 1978).

Shopping & Amenities

Amenities within Tennyson are essentially nil — no shops, no commercial strip; the Tennyson Volunteer Bush Fire Brigade shed is described as the only community building in the suburb. Everyday retail and services sit just south in adjacent North Richmond, which has the North Richmond Shopping Village (supermarket and shops) along Bells Line of Road plus hotel, police station and sporting ovals.

Parks & Outdoors

Tennyson's outdoors is its rural landscape itself — acreage lots, paddocks and bush blocks on the Hawkesbury floodplain fringe north of the river, popular with horse properties. There are no large public reserves inside the suburb; the main recreational river corridor — the Hawkesbury River at the North Richmond bridge reach — is in the adjacent suburb of North Richmond, which also holds John Wellington Oval, Turnbull Oval and Inalls Lane parks. Note the suburb does not itself have Hawkesbury River frontage — the river runs through North Richmond to the south.

Property Market

The median house price in Tennyson was around ~$1.5–1.6M (very thin market): median of $1,520,000 across 4 recorded NSW Valuer General sales (range $950,000–$2,000,000, soldnsw, mid-2026) and a $1,622,000 QuickProperty house median with +8.1% year-on-year growth (QuickProperty, 2026); Domain shows no stable bedroom-type median with only ~4 sales this year (mid-2026). See our full Sydney property price map for how the suburb compares across the city. Extremely thin, acreage-dominated market — only about 2–4 property sales per year, so medians swing with individual house-and-land sales. Recent sales include $950,000 and $1,130,000 while current acreage listings guide at $2.1M–$2.475M (443 Tennyson Road advertises 'Town Water!', implying much of the suburb is not on town supply). Trackers disagree widely for this reason; treat any single figure cautiously. No meaningful unit/apartment market exists — the stock is separate houses on acreage. The suburb's median age of 60+ reflects its settled rural character.

New Developments

Minimal — no significant residential or commercial development pipeline was identified in Tennyson; QuickProperty rates the suburb's development signal at +0% (steady), and the area retains rural/acreage zoning with very few sales. The only 'projects' are community infrastructure such as the volunteer bush fire brigade shed used for the Tennyson Water Scheme.

Jobs & Local Economy

Employment is mostly local rural and service-based: census top occupations are managers (44), technicians and trades (28), clerical/administrative (28) and professionals (23) — consistent with acreage, farming, equestrian and trades work — with employment leaning toward construction and education industries (QuickProperty census-derived data). There is no commercial/industrial employment base in the suburb itself; jobs are found in nearby North Richmond and Richmond (shopping, schools, RFS), and the Hawkesbury LGA's unemployment picture underpins commutes to the Richmond/Windsor corridor.

Nearby Suburbs

North Richmond, Glossodia, East Kurrajong, Kurmond, The Slopes

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 — North Richmond
• Wikipedia — Richmond–Kurrajong railway line

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