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2026 Bondi, North Bondi, Tamarama
Two postcodes live inside 2026. The lived one is 34 years old, earns $76,000, and pays $680 a week in rent. Registered to the same address: 1,302 self-managed super funds, 1,150 discretionary investment trusts, 20,572 active business numbers. The averages on this page belong to the second postcode. The medians belong to the first.
The lived postcode
- 01 Younger than the country. Median age 34, four years below the national median of 38. Average household size 2.2 persons: share-house and couples territory, not the family-home pattern.
- 02 Working Sydney income, not Eastern Suburbs income. Median taxable income in 2022-23 was $75,956. Top 3.4 per cent of postcodes nationally, but a long way below the impression Bondi gives. Median salary or wages: $79,933. Median super-account balance: $46,564.
- 03 Paying Bondi rent on it. Median weekly rent at the 2021 Census was $680. The national median in the same Census was $375. Bondi rent is roughly 1.8 times the country’s.
The registered postcode
- 01 Top 1.4 per cent by ABN count. 20,572 active business numbers are registered to this postcode, against a national-postcode median of 1,070. Only 35 postcodes in the country hold more.
- 02 Vehicles of structured wealth. 1,302 of those ABNs are self-managed super funds. 1,150 are discretionary investment trusts. 4,743 are private companies. These vehicles register at advisers’ addresses or at home; their concentration here is unusual.
- 03 A stable landlord layer. Between 15 and 16 per cent of tax-return lodgers in 2026 report net rental income, in every one of the seven years the ATO publishes. The investor-property layer is a fixture, not a fashion.
Where the two layers meet
On the median, the lived postcode tells one story: taxable income up 32 per cent over seven years. On the average, the registered postcode pulls the figure much further: up 48 per cent. The biggest single year was 2020-21.
The median (the lived postcode) grew 32 per cent over seven years. The average (with the registered postcode at the top) grew 48. The biggest single year was 2020-21, when the average leapt 24 per cent against the median's 11. Median in ochre, average in federation blue.
Where 2026 sits
2026 covers Bondi, Bondi Beach, North Bondi and Tamarama: the seaward third of Waverley Council, about 3.6 square kilometres of cliff and sand.
The shaded shape is postcode 2026; the outline is Waverley Council.
- State
- NSW
- LGA
- Waverley Council
- Population
- 32,693
- Median age
- 34
- Area
- 3.6 km²
Population and median age at August 2021 (ABS Census, the latest such release). Boundary and area from ABS ASGS Edition 3.
The numbers, by source
- Population
- 32,693
- Median age
- 34
- Median weekly household income
- $2,896
- Median weekly personal income
- $1,503
- Median weekly rent
- $680
- Median monthly mortgage repayment
- $3,400
- Average household size
- 2.2 persons
- Private dwellings counted
- 15,716
Source: ABS Census of Population and Housing 2021, tables G01 and G02 (selected person characteristics; medians and averages). A postal area is an ABS statistical approximation, not an Australia Post delivery boundary.
- Individuals lodging a tax return
- 24,600
- Median taxable income
- $75,956
- Average taxable income
- $140,535
- Median salary or wages
- $79,933
- Median total super-account balance
- $46,564
- Share with net rental income (landlords)
- 15 per cent
- Share with business income
- 14 per cent
Source: Australian Taxation Office, “Individuals: Table 25 – selected items, by postcode”, released on data.gov.au. The file counts tax-return lodgers only; non-lodgers do not appear.
- Active ABNs, all entity types
- 20,572
- Individual / sole trader
- 11,343
- Australian private company
- 4,743
- Self-managed super fund
- 1,302
- Discretionary investment trust
- 1,150
- Strata-title body
- 619
- Discretionary trading trust
- 319
- All other entity types
- 1,096
Source: Australian Business Register, public bulk extract. The address on an ABN is the registered or mailing address, often a home for sole traders. A count of ABNs at this address is not a count of businesses operating from this address.
Sources
- Australian Bureau of Statistics, Census of Population and Housing 2021, tables G01 and G02, postal area POA2026. Released as the General Community Profile, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International. Reference date 10 August 2021.
- Australian Taxation Office, Taxation Statistics 2022-23, Individuals: Table 25 – selected items, by postcode, released on data.gov.au. Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 Australia. Dataset identifier 03326c3f-c0d3-4af4-afc7-c6ccc0a02223. The seven-year series uses the equivalent Table 25 release for each income year from 2016-17 onward, same publisher, same licence. National rank derived across all 2,558 postcodes the file covers.
- Australian Business Register, public bulk extract of active ABNs and entity types, Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia. The entity-type breakdown is the count of active ABNs whose registered or mailing postcode is 2026, by the register’s entity-type classification. National rank derived across the 2,638 postcodes for which the register holds at least one active ABN.
- Boundary geometry: ABS Australian Statistical Geography Standard (ASGS) Edition 3, postal area and local government area boundaries, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International. Simplified for display.
How this page was built
Sources and dates
Every figure on this page is one of three kinds: quoted from an official release, measured directly in the underlying file, or arithmetic on those with the working stated on the page. No projection of behaviour appears anywhere. Where the freshest source is several years old, that age is stated next to the figure.
The two-layer framing
“The lived postcode” and “the registered postcode” are this page’s framing of figures that exist in the official record. The first describes people who live at addresses in 2026 (Census 2021, ABS). The second describes business numbers, super funds and trusts whose registered address sits in 2026 (Australian Business Register). The two layers can overlap (a Bondi resident running a company registered at home) and they can diverge (a trust registered with an Eastern Suburbs adviser for a beneficiary who lives elsewhere). Both layers show up in the public record.
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