Suburb profile
Broken Head NSW 2481
Broken Head is located in the Northern Rivers region of New South Wales, postcode 2481. It has 266 properties across 15 streets. Explore every street in Broken Head, its property history, homes for sale and rent, who lives there, and the local agents.
About Broken Head
Broken Head, NSW 2481, sits in the Northern Rivers region and neighbours Coopers Shoot, Knockrow, Lennox Head and Newrybar. Its 15 streets hold 266 properties, 167 of them houses and 99 units.
Census figures are for the Byron Bay area, which covers part of Broken Head. At the 2021 Census that area had 10,914 residents, a median age of 39 and an average household of 2.4 people. Median household income was $1,748 a week, the median mortgage repayment $2,340 a month and the median rent $620 a week. Of 3,952 dwellings, 2,435 were separate houses, 997 semi-detached, 318 flats and 160 other; 1,372 were owned outright, 960 owned with a mortgage and 1,454 rented.
Updated October 2026
Who lives in Broken Head
- 10,914Peoplelive in the area
- 39Median ageyears
- $1,748Median household incomea week
- $620Median renta week
Homes by type
- Houses2,435
- Townhouses and semis997
- Flats and apartments318
- Other160
Household
- Median mortgage repayment$2,340a month
- Household size2.4people on average
How homes are held
Streets in Broken Head
- Armstrong Lane22 properties
- Blackbutt Lane29 properties
- Broken Head Reserve Road54 properties
- Broken Head Road90 properties
- Bundaleer Road7 properties
- Byron Bay Road2 properties
- Midgen Flat Road19 properties
- Natural Lane4 properties
- Newrybar Swamp Road5 properties
- Owenia Way8 properties
- Rose Apple Place6 properties
- Seven Mile Beach Road11 properties
- Sugar Cane Road4 properties
- Taylors Lake Road3 properties
- Tims Lane2 properties
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.