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Cowan is a NSW suburb in Hornsby LGA, matched to postcode 2081 — also covering Berowra. New rental bonds in that postcode had a median weekly rent of $785 in 2025, up 0.6% from $780 in 2024. That is about 13% above the NSW median of $695. Bond medians describe new lodgements with Fair Trading, not every current lease in the suburb. Cowan recorded 35 criminal incidents in the 12 months to March 2026, up 2.9% from 34 a year earlier. These are police-recorded incidents, not convictions, and they are not adjusted for how many people live or visit here. House bonds typically leased at $820 a week. Two-bedroom bonds had a median of $600; three-bedroom bonds $785. Four-bedroom bonds sat at $895 a week. Half of new bonds sat between $612 and $900 a week. Fair Trading recorded 58 new bonds in the postcode in 2025. Over 2021–2025 the postcode median moved from $630 to $785 a week. Because several suburbs share the postcode, the rent charts are a postcode picture, not a street-level one. Property offences totalled 15 and violent-related offences 5. Theft made up the largest published share (12 incidents, 34%). Next was Transport regulatory offences (8). The crime series is coded to this suburb name; the rent series, where shown, is the whole postcode. The two windows are not identical: rents are calendar year, recorded crime is the 12 months to March 2026. Sources: NSW Fair Trading rental bond lodgements, calendar 2025; NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research, Apr 2025 – Mar 2026.
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