NSW · Greater Sydney · Urban
Inner West Council
A zone sets what may be built on the land — houses, apartments, shops, industry — and what may not. The zoning of Inner West Council, drawn from NSW’s own Land Zoning Map: every zone, where it applies and how much land it covers.
64% of Inner West Council is zoned residential.
Zoned by the Inner West Local Environmental Plan 2022 and State planning policies
Zoning map
Every zone, from NSW’s own map
19 zones and the land each covers
Residential2,210 ha64%
- R1 General Residential717 ha21%
- R2 Low Density Residential1,354 ha39%
- R3 Medium Density Residential98.1 ha2.8%
- R4 High Density Residential39.9 ha1.2%
Employment and mixed use546 ha16%
- E1 Local Centre126 ha3.6%
- E2 Commercial Centre18.3 ha0.5%
- E3 Productivity Support84.1 ha2.4%
- E4 General Industrial239 ha6.9%
- MU1 Mixed Use23.8 ha0.7%
- PAE Port and Employment54.7 ha1.6%
Special purpose368 ha11%
- SP1 Special Activities11.5 ha0.3%
- SP2 Infrastructure357 ha10%
Recreation284 ha8.2%
- RE1 Public Recreation272 ha7.9%
- RE2 Private Recreation12.2 ha0.4%
Waterways39.2 ha1.1%
- W1 Natural Waterways13.8 ha0.4%
- W2 Recreational Waterways14.3 ha0.4%
- W4 Working Waterfrontunder 1 haunder 0.1%
- WFU Waterfront Use11 ha0.3%
Other1.8 haunder 0.1%
- DM Deferred Matter1.8 haunder 0.1%
- No zone on NSW’s map60.5 ha
Where it comes from
The plans that zone Inner West
- Inner West Local Environmental Plan 2022The council's local environmental plan98%
- State Environmental Planning Policy (Precincts—Eastern Harbour City) 2021A State planning policy2.2%
A planning proposal under way can change this map. See Inner West’s planning proposals.
The latest changes NSW published to the map
- Inner West Local Environmental Plan 2022 — Amendment No 1921 Aug 2026
- Inner West Local Environmental Plan 2022 — Amendment No 1517 July 2026
- Inner West Local Environmental Plan 2022 — Map Amendment No 515 May 2026
- Inner West Local Environmental Plan 2022 — Amendment No 168 May 2026
- Inner West Local Environmental Plan 2022 — Map Amendment No 427 Feb 2026
- State Environmental Planning Policy Amendment (WestConnex Dive Site) 202512 Dec 2025
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 Inner West Council — 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.