NSW · Greater Sydney · Urban
City of Sydney
A zone sets what may be built on the land — houses, apartments, shops, industry — and what may not. The zoning of City of Sydney, drawn from NSW’s own Land Zoning Map: every zone, where it applies and how much land it covers.
27% of City of Sydney is zoned residential.
Zoned by the Sydney Local Environmental Plan 2012 and State planning policies
Zoning map
Every zone, from NSW’s own map
29 zones and the land each covers
Residential693 ha27%
- 2(a) Residential (Low Density)5.7 ha0.2%
- A Residential Zone - Medium Density Residential1.1 haunder 0.1%
- R1 General Residential597 ha23%
- R2 Low Density Residential72 ha2.8%
- RESB Residential – Business15.1 ha0.6%
- RESI Residential1.7 haunder 0.1%
Employment and mixed use874 ha34%
- B Business Zone - Local Centreunder 1 haunder 0.1%
- B4 Mixed Use9.7 ha0.4%
- C Business Zone - Business Park11.7 ha0.5%
- D Business Zone - Mixed Use8.6 ha0.3%
- E Business Zone - Commercial Core2 haunder 0.1%
- E1 Local Centre74.3 ha2.9%
- E2 Commercial Centre18 ha0.7%
- E3 Productivity Support181 ha7%
- E4 General Industrial69.5 ha2.7%
- MU1 Mixed Use499 ha19%
Special purpose604 ha23%
- F Special Purposes Zone - Comminity1 haunder 0.1%
- G Special Purposes Zone - Infrastructure24.4 ha0.9%
- RLWY Railways34.1 ha1.3%
- SP1 Special Activities61.2 ha2.4%
- SP2 Infrastructure295 ha11%
- SP5 Metropolitan Centre188 ha7.3%
Recreation406 ha16%
- H Recreation Zone - Public Recreation3 ha0.1%
- I Recreation Zone - Private Recreationunder 1 haunder 0.1%
- PRC Public Recreation13.2 ha0.5%
- RE1 Public Recreation386 ha15%
- REPL Public Recreation – Preferred Locations2.6 ha0.1%
Waterwaysunder 1 haunder 0.1%
- WFU Waterfront Useunder 1 haunder 0.1%
Other4.3 ha0.2%
- DM Deferred Matter4.3 ha0.2%
- No zone on NSW’s map125 ha
Where it comes from
The plans that zone Sydney
- Sydney Local Environmental Plan 2012The council's local environmental plan93%
- State Environmental Planning Policy (Precincts—Eastern Harbour City) 2021A State planning policy5.6%
- Sydney Local Environmental Plan (Harold Park) 2011The council's local environmental plan0.4%
- Sydney Local Environmental Plan (Green Square Town Centre—Stage 2) 2013The council's local environmental plan0.4%
- South Sydney Local Environmental Plan 1998The council's local environmental plan0.2%
- Sydney Local Environmental Plan (Green Square Town Centre) 2013The council's local environmental plan0.2%
- Sydney Local Environmental Plan (Glebe Affordable Housing Project) 2011The council's local environmental planunder 0.1%
A planning proposal under way can change this map. See Sydney’s planning proposals.
The latest changes NSW published to the map
- State Environmental Planning Policy (Precincts—Eastern Harbour City) Amendment (Barangaroo Modification) 20257 Nov 2025
- State Environmental Planning Policy Amendment (Explorer Street Eveleigh) 202517 Oct 2025
- State Environmental Planning Policy Amendment (Central Precinct) 202515 Aug 2025
- Sydney Local Environmental Plan 2012 — Map Amendment No 812 Jan 2024
- State Environmental Planning Policy Amendment (Redfern-North Eveleigh Paint Shop Sub-precinct) 202315 Dec 2023
- Sydney Local Environmental Plan 2012 — Map Amendment No 68 Sept 2023
Every lot’s controls
Across NSW, 0.7% of the zoned land is residential.
Lodgd holds the zone, height limit, floor space ratio and heritage of every lot in NSW — beside the development applications, CDCs and building certificates on it, and the homes each council’s zoning already allows.
Try the free demo →Measured over the zoning maps of all 128 councils: 70,858,225 hectares zoned, 482,381 of them residential (zones R1 to R5).
Of every hundred hectares NSW’s councils have zoned, this much is zoned residential.
Elsewhere in NSW
Zoning in other councils
How the system works. How land is rezoned · Transport-oriented precincts · All guides →
How we measure. Every zone NSW’s Land Zoning Map draws in City of Sydney — the council’s own plan, and the land State planning policies zone directly — as NSW publishes it. Areas are measured from NSW’s outlines; shares are of the land NSW’s map zones, waterways included. Zoned residential means zones R1 to R5, and the older residential zones a few State policies still use.