Suburb profile

Lake Cowal NSW 2671

Lake Cowal is located in the Central West region of New South Wales, postcode 2671. It has 63 properties across 16 streets, almost all houses. Explore every street in Lake Cowal, its property history, homes for sale and rent, who lives there, and the local agents.

About Lake Cowal

Lake Cowal, NSW 2671, sits in the Central West region and neighbours Wirrinya, Girral, Back Creek and Burcher. Its 16 streets hold 63 properties, all of them houses.

Census figures are for the West Wyalong area. There were 5,525 residents, a median age of 43 and an average household of 2.3 people. Median household income was $1,324 a week, the median mortgage repayment $1,083 a month and the median rent $200 a week. Of 2,142 dwellings, 1,957 were separate houses, 90 semi-detached, 44 flats and 21 other. Of the same 2,142 dwellings, 1,005 were owned outright, 578 owned with a mortgage and 384 rented.

Updated October 2026

Who lives in Lake Cowal

  • 5,525Peoplelive in the area
  • 43Median ageyears
  • $1,324Median household incomea week
  • $200Median renta week

Homes by type

  • Houses1,957
  • Townhouses and semis90
  • Flats and apartments44
  • Other21

Household

  • Median mortgage repayment$1,083a month
  • Household size2.3people on average

How homes are held

Owned outright 1,005Owned with a mortgage 578Rented 384Other 175

Streets in Lake Cowal

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.