Suburb profile

Legume NSW 2476

Legume is located in the New England and North West region of New South Wales, postcode 2476. It has 167 properties across 19 streets, almost all houses. Explore every street in Legume, its property history, homes for sale and rent, who lives there, and the local agents.

About Legume

Legume, NSW 2476, sits in the New England and North West region and neighbours Wylie Creek, Upper Tooloom, Acacia Creek and Rivertree. Its 19 streets hold 167 properties, all of them houses.

Census figures are for the Tenterfield area, which covers the whole of Legume. At the 2021 Census the area had 6,810 residents, a median age of 55 and an average household of 2.1 people. Median household income was $885 a week, the median mortgage repayment $1,083 a month and the median rent $240 a week. Of 2,875 dwellings, 2,724 were separate houses, 24 semi-detached and 66 flats; 37 were other dwellings. Of the same 2,875, 1,541 were owned outright, 595 owned with a mortgage and 523 rented.

Updated October 2026

Who lives in Legume

  • 6,810Peoplelive in the area
  • 55Median ageyears
  • $885Median household incomea week
  • $240Median renta week

Homes by type

  • Houses2,724
  • Townhouses and semis24
  • Flats and apartments66
  • Other37

Household

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

How homes are held

Owned outright 1,541Owned with a mortgage 595Rented 523Other 216

Streets in Legume

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.