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
Properties in Boat Harbour
Schools near Boat Harbour
- 3.1 km
Bexhill Public School
GovernmentPrimary
- 3.5 km
Vistara Primary School
IndependentPrimary
- 3.7 km
Eltham Public School
GovernmentPrimary
- 3.9 km
Summerland Christian College
IndependentPrimary and secondary
- 5.6 km
Blue Hills College
IndependentPrimary and secondary
- 6.8 km
Clunes Public School
GovernmentPrimary
- 6.9 km
Goonellabah Public School
GovernmentPrimary
- 7 km
Wollongbar Public School
GovernmentPrimary
- 7.3 km
Corndale Public School
GovernmentPrimary
- 7.9 km
Lismore Heights Public School
GovernmentPrimary
- 8.5 km
Living School - Southern Cross University - E Block
IndependentPrimary and secondary
- 3.9 km
Summerland Christian College
IndependentPrimary and secondary
- 5.6 km
Blue Hills College
IndependentPrimary and secondary
- 5.7 km
The Rivers Secondary College, Kadina High Campus
GovernmentSecondary
- 7.4 km
St John's College
CatholicSecondary
- 8.5 km
Living School - Southern Cross University - Z Block
IndependentSecondary
- 8.5 km
Living School - Southern Cross University - E Block
IndependentPrimary and secondary
- 9 km
The Rivers Secondary College, Lismore High Campus
GovernmentSecondary
- 9 km
Alstonville High School
GovernmentSecondary
- 9 km
Trinity Catholic College Lismore
IndependentSecondary
- 9.6 km
The Rivers Secondary College, Richmond River High Campus
GovernmentSecondary
Local agents in Boat Harbour

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Agencies that specialise in Boat Harbour
Streets in Boat Harbour
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.
School details © Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA), from the Australian Schools List, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International and modified. ACARA does not endorse Listd.
Area summaries are generated from the national address file and ABS Census data, and checked against those figures before publication.


