Suburb profile
Barren Grounds NSW 2577
Barren Grounds is located in the Illawarra region of New South Wales, postcode 2577. It has 4 properties across 3 streets, almost all houses. Explore every street in Barren Grounds, its property history, homes for sale and rent, who lives there, and the local agents.
About Barren Grounds
Barren Grounds, NSW 2577, sits in the Illawarra region and neighbours Budderoo, Foxground, Brogers Creek and Broughton Vale. Its 3 streets hold 4 properties, all 4 of them houses.
Census figures are for the Kiama Hinterland - Gerringong area. It had 8,136 residents, a median age of 48 and an average household of 2.6 people. Median household income was $1,985 a week, the median mortgage repayment $2,167 a month and the median rent $500 a week. Of 2,915 dwellings, 2,504 were separate houses, 289 semi-detached, 89 flats and 16 other; 1,425 were owned outright, 874 owned with a mortgage and 481 rented.
Updated October 2026
Who lives in Barren Grounds
- 8,136Peoplelive in the area
- 48Median ageyears
- $1,985Median household incomea week
- $500Median renta week
Homes by type
- Houses2,504
- Townhouses and semis289
- Flats and apartments89
- Other16
Household
- Median mortgage repayment$2,167a month
- Household size2.6people on average
How homes are held
Streets in Barren Grounds
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.