Suburb profile
Back Forest NSW 2535
Back Forest is located in the Southern Highlands and Shoalhaven region of New South Wales, postcode 2535. It has 36 properties across 4 streets, almost all houses. Explore every street in Back Forest, its property history, homes for sale and rent, who lives there, and the local agents.
About Back Forest
Back Forest, NSW 2535, sits in the Southern Highlands and Shoalhaven region and neighbours Coolangatta, Far Meadow, Jaspers Brush and Numbaa. Its 4 streets hold 36 properties, all of them houses.
Census figures are for Berry - Kangaroo Valley, which includes Back Forest. The area had 9,489 residents, a median age of 56 and an average household of 2.3 people. Median household income was $1,429 a week, the median mortgage repayment $2,167 a month and the median rent $400 a week. Of 3,896 dwellings, 3,186 were separate houses, 391 semi-detached, 32 flats and 225 other; 2,143 were owned outright, 967 owned with a mortgage and 527 rented.
Updated October 2026
Who lives in Back Forest
- 9,489Peoplelive in the area
- 56Median ageyears
- $1,429Median household incomea week
- $400Median renta week
Homes by type
- Houses3,186
- Townhouses and semis391
- Flats and apartments32
- Other225
Household
- Median mortgage repayment$2,167a month
- Household size2.3people on average
How homes are held
Streets in Back Forest
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.