Suburb profile

Chinderah NSW 2487

Chinderah is located in the Northern Rivers region of New South Wales, postcode 2487. It has 2,097 properties across 22 streets, mostly units. Explore every street in Chinderah, its property history, homes for sale and rent, who lives there, and the local agents.

About Chinderah

Chinderah, NSW 2487, sits in the Northern Rivers region and neighbours Banora Point, Cudgen, Fingal Head and Kingscliff. Its 22 streets hold 2,097 properties, 413 of them houses and 1,684 units.

Census figures are for Kingscliff - Fingal Head, the wider statistical area. At the 2021 Census it had 14,818 residents, a median age of 47 and an average household of 2.4 people. Median household income was $1,537 a week, the median mortgage repayment $2,240 a month and the median rent $483 a week. Of 5,616 dwellings, 3,533 were separate houses, 805 semi-detached and 819 flats; 434 were other dwellings. Of the same 5,616, 2,454 were owned outright, 1,585 owned with a mortgage and 1,422 rented.

Updated October 2026

Who lives in Chinderah

  • 14,818Peoplelive in the area
  • 47Median ageyears
  • $1,537Median household incomea week
  • $483Median renta week

Homes by type

  • Houses3,533
  • Townhouses and semis805
  • Flats and apartments819
  • Other434

Household

  • Median mortgage repayment$2,240a month
  • Household size2.4people on average

How homes are held

Owned outright 2,454Owned with a mortgage 1,585Rented 1,422Other 155

Properties in Chinderah

Streets in Chinderah

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.