Suburb profile

Boat Harbour NSW 2480

Boat Harbour is located in the Northern Rivers region of New South Wales, postcode 2480. It has 160 properties across 11 streets, almost all houses. Explore every street in Boat Harbour, its property history, homes for sale and rent, who lives there, and the local agents.

About Boat Harbour

Boat Harbour, NSW 2480, sits in the Northern Rivers region and neighbours Eltham, McLeans Ridges, Bexhill and Richmond Hill. Its 11 streets hold 160 properties, 158 of them houses and 2 units.

Census figures are for Lismore Surrounds, the statistical area that contains Boat Harbour. At the 2021 Census it had 15,786 residents, a median age of 47 and an average household of 2.5 people. Median household income was $1,478 a week, the median mortgage repayment $1,733 a month and the median rent $334 a week. Of 5,687 dwellings, 5,487 were separate houses, 40 semi-detached, 81 flats and 55 other; 2,645 were owned outright, 1,965 owned with a mortgage and 805 rented.

Updated October 2026

Who lives in Boat Harbour

  • 15,786Peoplelive in the area
  • 47Median ageyears
  • $1,478Median household incomea week
  • $334Median renta week

Homes by type

  • Houses5,487
  • Townhouses and semis40
  • Flats and apartments81
  • Other55

Household

  • Median mortgage repayment$1,733a month
  • Household size2.5people on average

How homes are held

Owned outright 2,645Owned with a mortgage 1,965Rented 805Other 272

Properties in Boat Harbour

Schools near Boat Harbour

  • Bexhill Public School

    GovernmentPrimary

    3.1 km
  • Vistara Primary School

    IndependentPrimary

    3.5 km
  • Eltham Public School

    GovernmentPrimary

    3.7 km
  • Summerland Christian College

    IndependentPrimary and secondary

    3.9 km
  • Blue Hills College

    IndependentPrimary and secondary

    5.6 km

Local agents in Boat Harbour

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Streets in Boat Harbour

Neighbouring suburbs

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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.

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