Suburb profile

Back Creek NSW 2484

Back Creek is located in the Northern Rivers region of New South Wales, postcode 2484. It has 25 properties across 2 streets, almost all houses. Explore every street in Back Creek, its property history, homes for sale and rent, who lives there, and the local agents.

About Back Creek

Back Creek, NSW 2484, sits in the Northern Rivers region and neighbours Brays Creek, Mebbin and Pumpenbil. Its 2 streets hold 25 properties, all 25 of them houses.

Census figures are for Murwillumbah Surrounds, the statistical area containing Back Creek. At the 2021 Census it had 10,352 residents, a median age of 48 and an average household of 2.6 people. Median household income was $1,387 a week, the median mortgage repayment $1,745 a month and the median rent $350 a week. Of 3,520 dwellings, 3,444 were separate houses, 8 semi-detached and 46 other; 1,611 were owned outright, 1,170 owned with a mortgage and 541 rented.

Updated October 2026

Who lives in Back Creek

  • 10,352Peoplelive in the area
  • 48Median ageyears
  • $1,387Median household incomea week
  • $350Median renta week

Homes by type

  • Houses3,444
  • Townhouses and semis8
  • Other46

Household

  • Median mortgage repayment$1,745a month
  • Household size2.6people on average

How homes are held

Owned outright 1,611Owned with a mortgage 1,170Rented 541Other 198

Streets in Back Creek

Neighbouring suburbs

Addresses and streets incorporate or were developed using G-NAF © Geoscape Australia, licensed by the Commonwealth of Australia under the Open Geo-coded National Address File (G-NAF) End User Licence Agreement.

Population and housing figures are drawn from the Australian Bureau of Statistics, Census of Population and Housing 2021, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International.

Area summaries are generated from the national address file and ABS Census data, and checked against those figures before publication.