Turramurra, NSW 2074

Leafy, prestige Upper North Shore suburb in Ku-ring-gai Council whose name comes from an Aboriginal word thought to mean 'high hill' or 'big hill' — fitting for a hilly suburb sitting about 170 m above sea level. At the 2021 census it recorded 12,850 residents with a median weekly household income of $3,046, well above the national median of $1,746, and 68.1% of occupied private dwellings were separate houses on large, tree-lined blocks. Housing stock spans Federation-era homes and California bungalows built during the post-World War I subdivision boom, alongside mid-century homes, with a handful of grand estates such as Ingleholme (1896, by architect John Sulman) now heritage-listed. Households are primarily couples with children and most residents work in professional occupations, with 77.7% of homes owner-occupied in 2021. The village shopping strip clusters around the railway station, and the suburb is wrapped by bushland edges — Sheldon Forest on the Pymble border and national-park country a few minutes further out.

At a Glance

Transport

Turramurra railway station, on the T1 North Shore Line of the Sydney Trains network, opened in 1890 and gave the suburb its name. Sydney Trains runs frequent direct Central–Turramurra services off-peak, and a NightRide N90 bus service links Turramurra with Hornsby and Town Hall overnight. CDC NSW buses run from the station to local residential areas and schools. The Pacific Highway, a major arterial, runs through the suburb.

Schools

Turramurra Public School — NSW government primary school in the suburb. Turramurra High School — NSW government comprehensive high school, physically in neighbouring South Turramurra (which became a separate suburb in 1994) and listed among Turramurra's schools. Warrawee Public School — NSW government primary in adjacent Warrawee, also listed under Turramurra education. Prouille Catholic Primary School — K–6 Catholic school on Water Street in adjacent Wahroonga whose parish draw explicitly includes Turramurra, Wahroonga, St Ives and Warrawee families (Prouille school website). Knox Grammar School — large independent Uniting Church boys' school (K–12) on the Pacific Highway in adjacent Wahroonga, effectively on Turramurra's northern edge.

Shopping & Amenities

Turramurra's commercial heart is the village strip along the Pacific Highway and Rohini Street beside the station — real-estate agents, fruit markets, banks, bakeries, a musical-instrument store and Turramurra Arcade, plus two supermarkets, with a Coles behind the station on Ray Street near Turramurra Public Library (the library opened in 1947). Turramurra Plaza adds specialty shops including a patisserie and pool store, and the village supports a genuine local dining scene: 27 restaurants are listed in Turramurra, including 9 along the Pacific Highway and 5 on Rohini Street. More shopping and dining sits a short drive north in the Wahroonga village and Hornsby centres, outside the suburb itself.

Parks & Outdoors

Turramurra Memorial Park is the suburb's main recreation ground, with an oval, four tennis courts (two grass, two hard), a running track, table tennis tables, children's play areas and an outdoor exercise area. Sheldon Forest, on the south-eastern boundary bordering Pymble, holds some of the best-preserved blue gum and turpentine high forest in the area. Parks are abundant — 21 parks cover nearly 14.7% of the suburb. Note on the national parks: Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park does not actually touch Turramurra — its entrance at Bobbin Head is a few kilometres north through North Turramurra, while Lane Cove National Park (start of the Great North Walk) borders South Turramurra to the south.

Property Market

The median house price in Turramurra was around $3,420,000 (median house sale price, 153 sales over 12 months to May 2026, YIP/CoreLogic); realestate.com.au's suburb data put the median at $3,285,000 on 144 sales over the past 12 months (retrieved Sep 2026) (mid-2026). See our full Sydney property price map for how the suburb compares across the city. Prestige family suburb: 68.1% separate houses at the 2021 census, 77.7% owner-occupation, median weekly household income $2,996–3,046, and most households are couples with children repaying over $4,000/month. Houses sit on generous leafy blocks with Federation and California-bungalow stock and heritage protections, so supply is tight — trackers put the current house median anywhere from roughly $3.0M to $3.4M depending on window and method, with unit medians around $860K–975K.

New Developments

Large-scale development is limited by the suburb's leafy, heritage-protected character: Federation landmarks including Ingleholme (17 Boomerang Street), Cossington (43 Ku-ring-gai Avenue) and Cherrywood on the Pacific Highway are heritage-listed. A proposal to rezone and build an Aldi supermarket was rejected in 2016, and a Harris Farm Market was proposed for 105 Eastern Road on the site of GDR Automotives. Change is essentially gentle infill — no major residential towers are planned in the suburb itself, in contrast to centres further down the line.

Jobs & Local Economy

Local retail and services in the Pacific Highway village and Turramurra Plaza are the main in-suburb employers. The suburb is overwhelmingly residential-professional: households are primarily couples with children working in professional occupations, with daily rail commuting to the Sydney CBD, Chatswood and Macquarie Park. Westfield Hornsby — one of Sydney's largest regional shopping centres, a few minutes' drive north in Hornsby — is the nearest big retail employment hub, and education jobs are anchored by the suburb's public and nearby private schools.

Nearby Suburbs

Wahroonga, Warrawee, South Turramurra, Pymble, St Ives

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.

Sources cited in this guide:

• Wikipedia — Turramurra railway station
• Wikipedia — Macquarie University
• Transport for NSW

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