Suburb profile

Forest Reefs NSW 2798

Forest Reefs is located in the Central West region of New South Wales, postcode 2798. It has 287 properties across 36 streets, almost all houses. Explore every street in Forest Reefs, its property history, homes for sale and rent, who lives there, and the local agents.

About Forest Reefs

Forest Reefs, NSW 2798, sits in the Central West region and neighbours Cadia, Errowanbang, Millthorpe and Spring Hill. Its 36 streets hold 287 properties, all of them houses.

Census figures are for the Blayney area, which covers most of the suburb. At the 2021 Census Blayney had 7,517 residents, a median age of 43 and an average household of 2.5 people. Median household income was $1,548 a week, the median mortgage repayment $1,517 a month and the median rent $270 a week. Of 2,772 dwellings, 2,635 were separate houses, 82 semi-detached, 22 flats and 13 other; 1,112 were owned outright, 955 owned with a mortgage and 598 rented.

Updated October 2026

Who lives in Forest Reefs

  • 7,517Peoplelive in the area
  • 43Median ageyears
  • $1,548Median household incomea week
  • $270Median renta week

Homes by type

  • Houses2,635
  • Townhouses and semis82
  • Flats and apartments22
  • Other13

Household

  • Median mortgage repayment$1,517a month
  • Household size2.5people on average

How homes are held

Owned outright 1,112Owned with a mortgage 955Rented 598Other 107

Streets in Forest Reefs

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.