Suburb profile
Box Head NSW 2257
Box Head is located in the Central Coast region of New South Wales, postcode 2257. It has 1 property across 1 street, almost all houses. Explore every street in Box Head, its property history, homes for sale and rent, who lives there, and the local agents.
About Box Head
Box Head, NSW 2257, sits in the Central Coast region and neighbours Pearl Beach, Hardys Bay, Ku-Ring-Gai Chase and Pittwater. Its 1 street holds 1 property, a house.
Census figures are for the wider Umina - Booker Bay - Patonga area, which had 24,697 residents, a median age of 47 and an average household of 2.2 people. Median household income was $1,329 a week, the median mortgage repayment $2,080 a month and the median rent $400 a week. Of 10,267 dwellings, 7,144 were separate houses, 2,072 semi-detached, 735 flats and 257 other; 3,852 were owned outright, 2,645 owned with a mortgage and 3,425 rented.
Updated October 2026
Who lives in Box Head
- 24,697Peoplelive in the area
- 47Median ageyears
- $1,329Median household incomea week
- $400Median renta week
Homes by type
- Houses7,144
- Townhouses and semis2,072
- Flats and apartments735
- Other257
Household
- Median mortgage repayment$2,080a month
- Household size2.2people on average
How homes are held
Streets in Box Head
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.