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About the suburb

North Curl Curl at a glance

North Curl Curl sits on the coast about 19 kilometres north-east of the city, in Northern Beaches Council. Curl Curl Lagoon and Greendale Creek form its southern edge, Harbord Road its western edge and Headland Road its northern one. The name may come from the Aboriginal 'curial curial', meaning river of life.

It is almost entirely a suburb of family houses, with 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 10 to 19.

The sometimes steep southern slopes of Wingala Hill shape much of the suburb, which flattens towards the old lagoon floodplain in the south. North Curl Curl Beach lies south of Dee Why Head, patrolled by its own surf lifesaving club. North of the lagoon are playing fields, a community garden, a youth club and an arts centre in a former scout hall.

Buses run to Manly, Frenchs Forest, Warringah Mall, Dee Why and the city. Curl Curl North Public School is here, and so is the Manly selective campus of Northern Beaches Secondary College, formerly Manly Boys High School.

The trade-offs are worth saying plainly. Streets on Wingala Hill can be steep, which affects access, building costs and what you can add later, while homes on the low ground near the lagoon need flood and drainage checks. With few apartments here, treat the apartment figures in the statistics box as a guide, not a price.