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What it costs to live in Canterbury-Bankstown, NSW
Canterbury-Bankstown council area, New South Wales. About 389,687 people lived here in 2025. Here's what rent, power, fuel, the pokies and crime look like, and how each one sits against the rest of New South Wales.
Rent
$670
A week. That's the median rent on new leases in the June quarter 2026.
Pokies losses
$2,065
Lost for every resident in a year. That's 1.8 times the NSW average.
See pokies losses in Canterbury-BankstownElectricity
$1,899
A year on the default offer in the Ausgrid network area, which covers most of Canterbury-Bankstown, for 3,900 kWh. That's the most a standing offer can cost. A typical plan here costs $1,709.
See electricity pricesUnleaded petrol
185c
A litre, on average, at 80 stations here over the year to September 2026. That's 7c less than the NSW average.
See when fuel is cheapestCrime police recorded
Violent crime, 2025–26
Police recorded 3,622 of these in Canterbury-Bankstown. That's 940 for every 100,000 people, or 79% of the NSW average. Five years before, in 2020–21, it was 824, so it has gone up 14%.
See each year
| Year | Recorded | Per 100,000 | NSW per 100,000 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025–26 | 3,622 | 940 | 1,183 |
| 2024–25 | 3,661 | 950 | 1,171 |
| 2023–24 | 3,782 | 982 | 1,156 |
| 2022–23 | 3,302 | 870 | 1,084 |
| 2021–22 | 2,685 | 722 | 981 |
| 2020–21 | 3,068 | 824 | 1,055 |
| 2019–20 | 2,899 | 771 | 1,009 |
| 2018–19 | 2,747 | 727 | 1,008 |
| 2017–18 | 2,805 | 751 | 999 |
| 2016–17 | 3,078 | 835 | 1,000 |
Property crime, 2025–26
Police recorded 3,902 of these in Canterbury-Bankstown. That's 1,013 for every 100,000 people, or 62% of the NSW average. Five years before, in 2020–21, it was 1,121, so it has come down 10%.
See each year
| Year | Recorded | Per 100,000 | NSW per 100,000 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025–26 | 3,902 | 1,013 | 1,622 |
| 2024–25 | 4,293 | 1,114 | 1,589 |
| 2023–24 | 4,083 | 1,060 | 1,651 |
| 2022–23 | 4,012 | 1,057 | 1,572 |
| 2021–22 | 3,249 | 873 | 1,381 |
| 2020–21 | 4,175 | 1,121 | 1,544 |
| 2019–20 | 4,720 | 1,256 | 1,826 |
| 2018–19 | 4,919 | 1,302 | 2,022 |
| 2017–18 | 5,130 | 1,374 | 2,066 |
| 2016–17 | 5,626 | 1,527 | 2,184 |
This is crime that police recorded in the area over a year, July to June. Lots of crime is never reported, and a rise can mean police are looking harder, not just that more crime happened. Each state counts crime its own way, so only compare a council with its own state.
Suburbs in Canterbury-Bankstown
Who lives in each one, their homes and how they get around.
- Ashbury
- Bankstown
- Bankstown Aerodrome
- Bass Hill
- Belfield (part)
- Belmore
- Beverly Hills (part)
- Birrong
- Campsie
- Canterbury
- Chester Hill (part)
- Chullora
- Clemton Park
- Condell Park
- Croydon Park (part)
- Earlwood
- East Hills
- Georges Hall
- Greenacre (part)
- Hurlstone Park (part)
- Kingsgrove (part)
- Lakemba
- Lansdowne (Canterbury-Bankstown - NSW)
- Milperra
- Mount Lewis
- Narwee (part)
- Padstow
- Padstow Heights
- Panania
- Picnic Point
- Potts Hill
- Punchbowl (Canterbury-Bankstown - NSW)
- Regents Park (part)
- Revesby
- Revesby Heights
- Riverwood (part)
- Roselands
- Sefton
- Villawood (part)
- Wiley Park
- Yagoona
Look further
- Rents across Australia: what tenants really pay by suburb and postcode.
- Pokies losses by council: where the most is lost, in four states.
- Fuel prices: the price cycle and the cheapest day to fill up.
- Compare Canterbury-Bankstown with another area, side by side.
- Look up another area.
Sources: recorded crime, NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research. Population: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Regional population, CC BY 4.0. Pokies losses: the state's gambling regulator (see the pokies page for its credit). Rent: state rental bond data (see the rent pages). Electricity: Default Market Offer 2026–27: © Commonwealth of Australia (Australian Energy Regulator), CC BY 4.0; retailers' plans under the Consumer Data Right. Fuel: NSW Government FuelCheck, CC BY-SA, so the fuel figure can be reused under the same licence.