Yarrawarrah, NSW 2233

Quiet, bush-adjacent family suburb of southern Sydney, 32 km south of the Sydney CBD in the Sutherland Shire, on the southern edge of metropolitan Sydney where suburbia meets the Royal National Park. It was officially gazetted as a suburb in 1971 — the name is a Tharawal Aboriginal word for the mountain ash (Eucalyptus regnans), after a nearby ridgeline — and before that the area was known as North Engadine; the 1960s–70s State Housing Commission era carved today's streets out of crown land between Loftus and Engadine. At the 2021 census it had 2,775 residents, 84.9% born in Australia, making it one of the Shire's smallest, most established, tightly held pockets. Agents and profiles describe a peaceful, leafy, family-oriented suburb with mostly brick homes on generous blocks and no through-traffic (StMate).

At a Glance

Transport

Yarrawarrah has no railway station — requests for one were rejected in 1936 and again in 1979 — and the closest stations are Engadine and Loftus, both on the T4 Eastern Suburbs & Illawarra line, in the adjacent suburbs of Engadine (about 2 km away) and Loftus. Buses service the area, notably U-Go Mobility routes 991 and 993. The Princes Highway is the main road bordering the suburb, and the Old Bush Road corridor links the village to Engadine's town centre.

Schools

Yarrawarrah Public School — NSW government primary school established in 1968 (as 'Engadine North', renamed when the suburb was gazetted), located on Old Bush Road behind the shopping village. It is the suburb's only school; secondary students typically head to government high schools in the adjacent suburb of Engadine, most notably Engadine High School.

Shopping & Amenities

Yarrawarrah's retail is a small village strip rather than a town centre: the landmark-windmill Yarrawarrah Shopping Village on Old Bush Road contains a medical practice, pharmacy, hair salon, Italian and Chinese restaurants and a convenience store. Across the road sits the Yarrawarrah Community Hall (opened 1984, with a 90-seat main hall and meeting room), next to the North Engadine Scout Hall. There is no supermarket or major shopping centre in the suburb — residents shop in Engadine, a short drive away.

Parks & Outdoors

Yarrawarrah's defining feature is its bushland setting: the suburb borders the Royal National Park — Australia's first national park, established 1879 — along its south-eastern edge, and contains many pockets of bushland, sitting on a hilly ridge that falls toward the valley of Engadine with several fire trail heads (Turrella, Fairy Creek). For sport it has two ovals: Old Bush Road Oval, home of the Engadine Lions Rugby Union Club and National Touch Rugby Australia games, and Yarrawarrah Reserve on the corner of Giles Street and Wheatley Road, home of the Yarrawarrah Tigers junior rugby league and baseball clubs. The community also runs a hobby internet-connected weather station.

Property Market

The median house price in Yarrawarrah was around ~$1.37M–$1.6M across trackers, with most clustering around $1.45–1.5M (Sep 2026): realestate.com.au puts the median house price at $1,372,500 from 28 sales in the past 12 months (down 6%); view.com.au shows a $1,478,000 median sale price over 1 year (range $1.1M–$2.03M, 24 sales); YIP lists $1,497,500 with 9.11% annual capital growth; StMate's 4-bedroom median is $1.60m with a $1.41m entry price (mid-2026). See our full Sydney property price map for how the suburb compares across the city. Yarrawarrah is a tightly held, fully built-out 1960s–70s family suburb of brick homes on bush-fringed blocks — house medians of about $1.37–1.6M (REA $1.37M vs StMate $1.60m depending on window and sample) place it mid-range for the Sutherland Shire, with 2021 census data showing a median age of 42, household income of $2,724/week and high owner-occupancy. The upper end of the range reaches ~$2M+ for large modern homes on premium streets (e.g. 37 Giles Street sold ~$2.03M in 2026). Note: advertised medians swing sharply between trackers because only a couple of dozen houses sell each year.

New Developments

Development is minimal: Yarrawarrah has been a fully built-out residential suburb since the 1970s, hemmed in by the Royal National Park to the south-east and Engadine to the west, with no significant apartment or greenfield projects identified in this research pass. Local infrastructure additions are community-scale — the shopping village grew through the 1990s and the Yarrawarrah Community Hall opened in 1984. Any new housing is limited to rare infill lots on existing streets.

Jobs & Local Economy

Local employment is small-scale — the shopping village (medical practice, pharmacy, restaurants), Yarrawarrah Public School and the sporting clubs' facilities provide modest local jobs. Most working residents commute out of the suburb: by car or the 991/993 buses to Engadine or Loftus stations and then the T4 line into Sydney CBD jobs, or to Sutherland Shire employment centres such as Sutherland and Miranda.

Nearby Suburbs

Loftus, Engadine

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 — Engadine
• Transport for NSW
• Dictionary of Sydney
• NSW Government

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