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About the suburb

Elanora Heights at a glance

Elanora Heights sits on the hill above Narrabeen, about 27 kilometres north-east of the city, in Northern Beaches Council. The name comes from an Aboriginal word meaning 'home by the sea' or 'home by the water'. The suburb began as the Elanora Heights Estate in 1929, after an earlier attempt at a coal mining camp.

It is mainly a suburb of family houses, with only a few apartments, and a large majority of homes are lived in by their owners. Couples with children are the largest household group, and the most common age group is 40 to 49.

Bush is never far away. The northern side runs to Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park, the south-west adjoins Garigal National Park, and bandicoots, possums and rock wallabies are seen in the area. Elanora Country Club opened in 1922 on land bought by members of Royal Sydney Golf Club, and Monash is the suburb's second golf course.

It is mainly residential, with a few small shops and a Uniting Church conference centre set in the bushland, and it looks out over Narrabeen Lagoon and the Tasman Sea. For larger shops, schools and the B-Line, most residents head down the hill to Narrabeen, Warriewood or Mona Vale.

The trade-offs are worth saying plainly. With national park on two sides, many streets back onto bush, so bushfire-prone land and the building rules that come with it need checking early. Sloping blocks affect access and building costs. And with so few apartments here, treat the apartment figures in the statistics box as a guide, not a price.