Stanwell Park, NSW 2508
Wollongong City Council, New South Wales
Good to Know
Stanwell Park, NSW 2508 is a high-value house market in the Wollongong City Council area, currently positioned as a long-hold capital growth submarket. The locality is home to roughly 1,532 adults across 674 dwellings, with a vacancy rate of 2.61%.
According to HtAG Analytics, Stanwell Park is exhibiting constrained supply with steady demand. Stock on Market sits at 0.37% and Inventory at 3.12 months — just above the ~3-month balanced-market threshold — driving +6.1% YoY price growth and +5.5% YoY rent growth.
What the market data is signalling
Stanwell Park shows concurrent price and rent gains alongside very limited listing supply. Houses have a typical price of $2,198,834, with +6.1% 1-year price growth and +5.5% 1-year rent growth while gross yield sits at 2.66%, below the commonly recommended 3% threshold — a profile that favours capital appreciation over cashflow. Low Stock on Market at 0.37% and a Building Approvals Ratio of 0.00% point to restricted new supply and ongoing competition for houses. For a visual of where this sits in the wider market, see the Markets in the Moment (MiM™) heatmap.
Who lives in Stanwell Park — and why it matters for investors
Stanwell Park scores an IRSAD decile of 10, indicating very high relative advantage and household capacity to pay. The Renter/Owner split is 17% (neutral), showing owner-occupation predominates, while the Units/Houses ratio is 5% (opportune), meaning the housing stock is heavily skewed to houses. High affluence and owner-occupation often reduce short-term volatility and can support long-run capital resilience; for more on how socio-economic mix alters property outcomes, see the IRSAD Crossover study.
Why suburb-level data matters for Stanwell Park
Suburb-level metrics are essential because local patterns — like Stanwell Park’s $2,198,834 typical price, 2.66% gross yield, 0.37% Stock on Market and 3.12 months Inventory — drive outcomes for individual properties. Council- or LGA-level averages can blend many different neighbourhoods and mask a pocket with Stanwell Park’s specific supply/demand dynamics and a median days on market of 54 days. Read more about why council-level screening is only the first step in the LGA vs Suburb research. For the complete dataset, download the full Stanwell Park data guide.
What's behind the RCS™ score of 55
The HtAG RCS™ (Rating Composite Score) bundles three independent dimensions — risk minimisation, capital-growth potential and cashflow resilience — into a single score to help match markets to investor strategy. An overall score of 55 means Stanwell Park offers moderate composite strength but the low yield and high IRSAD profile skew the balance toward capital-growth orientation rather than cashflow. To understand the calculation and why sub-score breakdowns matter, see how the RCS™ is built. Ready to explore further? open Stanwell Park in HtAG Copilot.
Forward signals to watch
Monitor the vacancy rate — currently 2.61%: a sustained neutral vacancy over 12–24 months typically indicates balanced rental turnover and steady rent growth rather than sharp upward pressure.
Watch the building approvals ratio — currently 0.00%: persistently near-zero approvals signals very limited new supply, which supports price resilience if demand holds.
Track the wider Sydney cycle phase: a city-wide move into expansion would likely amplify local demand and price momentum in Stanwell Park, while a broader downturn in Sydney would tend to filter through and slow local gains.
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RCS Breakdown
Stanwell Park's RCS™ headline is an overall signal — but it doesn't tell you why. The three sub-scores below reveal whether that score is earned through risk minimisation, capital growth, or cashflow — and which portfolio brief it fits.
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Market Trends
Stanwell Park's headline values — $2,305K to buy and $1,063PW to rent, a 2.39% gross yield. Over the past decade, prices have moved 75.21% and rents 77.04% — the Yield series shows whether that gap is widening (price outpacing rent, yield compressing) or closing.
$2,305K is today. The 10-year trajectory reveals whether that's the top of a run, the start of a new leg, or somewhere mid-cycle. Sign up to unlock the entire trend line.
$1,063PW today, with rent growth at (-3.62% YoY) compared to price growth (+8.69%). That spread determines yield is expanding or compressing across the next cycle. Sign up to unlock the entire trend line.
Where is Stanwell Park in its cycle - and is the 2.39% yield holding?
Cycle phase tells you whether you're buying near the bottom (room to run) or top (compression ahead). Yield trajectory tells you whether cashflow is durable or being eroded — the single most important question for a long-hold thesis.
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Area Risks
Property data alone won't flag the structural risks that can erode a long-hold position. Bushfire overlays, flood-zone exposure, and economic concentration sit outside the price feed but determine whether your capital is insurable, defensible, and structurally protected. Unlock to see.
Are there hidden structural risks shaping Stanwell Park's long-hold story?
Beyond the headline price, Stanwell Park carries risk signals a median can't show — hazard exposure from bushfire and flood overlays, and how narrowly local employment leans on a handful of sectors (the concentration the EDI score quantifies). Together these separate insurable, defensible long-holds from those carrying tail-risk that never surfaces in the headline number.
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Supply & Demand
Stanwell Park's headline numbers show where the market is today. The two cards below answer where it's heading. Direction is what separates a buy from a wait.
Is housing supply tightening or building up?
Stock on Market is one number — the trend is what matters. SoM, inventory, building approvals and hold period together reveal whether the market is starving for stock (price pressure up) or quietly building a pipeline (pressure down).
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Is buyer and renter demand heating up or cooling off?
Vacancy is one signal — the real question is whether demand is still building or quietly peaking. Days on market, vacancy, search index and clearance rate are the four pulse-points — when they diverge, they signal a turning point.
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Fundamentals
Stanwell Park can look solid on the surface — but the three layers below separate markets that genuinely hold value from ones that only look like they do.
Is Stanwell Park genuinely stable - or just expensive?
IRSAD hints at affluence, but socio-economic strength alone doesn't guarantee resilience. Combined with the renter-to-owner balance and unit-to-house ratio, you get the three signals that separate a tightly-held submarket from one carrying hidden volatility.
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Where do Stanwell Park prices go over the next 12 months?
Today's headline price is just a snapshot. Projected ROI and the volatility index tell you whether to commit capital now, wait for a softer entry, or rotate into a steadie submarket.
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Can you actually buy into Stanwell Park - and exit cleanly?
Tightly-held areas reward long-hold investors but punish anyone who needs liquidity. Annual sales and rental volume reveal whether your capital can reposition — or sits structurally locked in.
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Education & Infrastructure
Stanwell Park looks tightly-held and stable on the surface — but the three layers below separate areas that genuinely hold value from ones that only look like they do.
Does Stanwell Park's school catchment + infrastructure pipeline justify the price?
School ranks anchor family demand and tenant quality. The active infrastructure pipeline shifts a suburb's price ceiling over the next 5–10 years. Together they tell you whether Stanwell Park has structural support for the next leg of capital growth.
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Full HtAG Intelligence
Stanwell Park shows potential. The platform tells you whether it's the best fit for your portfolio.
Price and yield are only the surface. HtAG reads the forces underneath — supply tightening or loosening, demand heating or cooling, and the risks that move slowly but decide long-term growth. Together they show whether Stanwell Park has the structural support for its next leg — or whether the numbers are running ahead of the fundamentals.
The total adult population (15 years or older) of Stanwell Park 2508 NSW is 1,270, with a median age of 45. Of those, 57.40% are married, 7.72% are divorced or separated, 30.08% are single and 4.96% are widowed.
The average household size is 2.9 people per dwelling, and the median household monthly income is estimated to be $12,548. The median monthly mortgage repayment for households in this suburb is $2,675 which is 21.32% of their earnings.
Source: ABS Census Data (2021)