Inner West · Leichhardt

One thing I’d do in Leichhardt

My pick

The Italian Forum and Norton Street: eat, wander, and take in Sydney’s historic Little Italy.

The Forum is the piazza at 23 Norton Street. It is also home to Teatro, a 300-seat theatre that opened in 2025 and is running musicals through late 2026, so a show and a long Italian dinner is the move. From there, work your way along Norton Street past Pioneers Memorial Park and the Palace cinema.

Sources: The Scoop: Teatro · Teatro: what’s on · Wikipedia: Leichhardt

The property side

• Housing mix: 36.5% freestanding houses, 33.6% semis and terraces, 29.0% apartments. Median rent in 2021 was $600 a week, the highest of the suburbs in this series.
• Pockets: Norton Street and the Forum; the 1888 town hall and post office; Leichhardt Oval.
• Transport: Leichhardt has no train station. It has four light rail stops (Leichhardt North, Hawthorne, Marion and Taverners Hill), plenty of buses, and Petersham station about eight minutes’ walk away.
• Schools in and around the suburb include Kegworth Public, Leichhardt Public, St Columba’s, St Fiacre’s and Sydney Secondary College’s Leichhardt campus. Catchments are address-specific, so check yours on NSW School Finder.

Sources: ABS Census 2021 · Wikipedia

Go deeper

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