Suburb profile

Brownsville NSW 2530

Brownsville is located in the Illawarra region of New South Wales, postcode 2530. It has 324 properties across 7 streets. Explore every street in Brownsville, its property history, homes for sale and rent, who lives there, and the local agents.

About Brownsville

Brownsville, NSW 2530, sits in the Illawarra region and neighbours Berkeley, Kanahooka, Kembla Grange and Dapto. Its 7 streets hold 324 properties, 176 of them houses and 148 units.

Census figures are for Dapto - Avondale, a statistical area that takes in the whole suburb. It had 24,195 residents, a median age of 41 and an average household of 2.5 people. Median household income was $1,445 a week, the median mortgage repayment $1,950 a month and the median rent $390 a week. Of 9,127 dwellings, 7,747 were separate houses, 1,145 semi-detached, 214 flats and 4 other; 3,394 were owned outright, 3,321 owned with a mortgage and 2,163 rented.

Updated October 2026

Who lives in Brownsville

  • 24,195Peoplelive in the area
  • 41Median ageyears
  • $1,445Median household incomea week
  • $390Median renta week

Homes by type

  • Houses7,747
  • Townhouses and semis1,145
  • Flats and apartments214
  • Other4

Household

  • Median mortgage repayment$1,950a month
  • Household size2.5people on average

How homes are held

Owned outright 3,394Owned with a mortgage 3,321Rented 2,163Other 249

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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.