contemporary waterfront houses. According to the Sydney Morning Herald, Longueville was ranked Sydney’s fourth most expensive suburb in 2014 with a median property price of $2.7 million, having climbed from the fifth most expensive at $2.35 million in 2011, positioning it as one of Sydney's most prestigious suburbs. In the past few years, the suburb has seen many new homes being constructed and older houses undergoing extensive renovations. Norfolk Road holds the record for the highest sale price achieved at auction in the suburb. Population Demographics In the 2011 Australian Bureau of Statistics Census of Population and Housing, the population of Longueville stood at 2,099 people, 50.1% females and 49.9% males, with a median age of 42 years. 24.3% of the population was born overseas with England (5.2%), New Zealand (2.1%) and the United States of America (1.0%) the most common. The five strongest religious affiliations in the area were in descending order: Catholic (40.8%), Anglican (20.9%), no religion (17.4%), Uniting Church (3.7%) and Eastern Orthodox (2.6%). Longueville's population is typically indebted, with a median weekly household income of 3,040, compared with A$1,234 in Australia. The most common types of occupation for employed persons were Professionals (44.3%), Managers (22.2%), and Clerical and Administrative Workers (14.4%). 89.5% of the suburbs occupied private dwellings were family households, 10% were lone person households and 0.5% were group households. Notable residents Notable former and current residents of Longueville include: Marjorie Barnard - novelist Pamela Clauss - NYC-based pioneering surgical nurse and philanthropist Louisa Dunkley - Union leader and feminist Antonia Kidman - journalist, television host Nicole Kidman - actress Rose Lindsay - artist's model, printmaker, author and wife of Norman Lindsay John Newcombe - tennis player Patrick O'Farrell - historian of Catholic Australia Brett Whiteley - artist Geoffrey Robertson - Barrister Politics Longueville is in the safe Liberal federal electoral division of North Sydney. Former Federal Treasurer Joe Hockey represented the seat from 1996 and was replaced by Trent Zimmerman at the 2015 North Sydney by-election. Zimmerman was the first openly gay man to be elected to the House of Representatives and was re-elected at the 2016 federal election. North Sydney is one of only two original divisions in New South Wales, along with Wentworth, which have never been held by the Australian Labor Party (ALP). For NSW state elections, Longueville is in the Electoral district of Lane Cove. Since 2003, this seat has