Suburb profile
Macarthur ACT 2904
Macarthur is located in the Canberra region of the Australian Capital Territory, postcode 2904. It has 534 properties across 22 streets, almost all houses. Explore every street in Macarthur, its property history, homes for sale and rent, who lives there, and the local agents.
About Macarthur
Macarthur, ACT 2904, sits in Canberra and neighbours Gilmore, Tuggeranong, Fadden and Chisholm. Its 22 streets hold 534 properties, 513 of them houses and 21 units.
At the 2021 Census Macarthur had 1,405 residents, a median age of 39 and an average household of 2.9 people. Median household income was $3,037 a week, the median mortgage repayment $2,200 a month and the median rent $520 a week. Of 488 dwellings, 475 were separate houses and 14 semi-detached; 207 were owned outright, 227 owned with a mortgage and 48 rented.
Updated October 2026
Who lives in Macarthur
- 1,405Peoplelive in the area
- 39Median ageyears
- $3,037Median household incomea week
- $520Median renta week
Homes by type
- Houses475
- Townhouses and semis14
Household
- Median mortgage repayment$2,200a month
- Household size2.9people on average
How homes are held
Streets in Macarthur
- Bayly Place9 properties
- Beggs Place11 properties
- Body Place14 properties
- Bracker Place11 properties
- Carson Street5 properties
- Coyne Street10 properties
- Dennys Place10 properties
- Ebsworth Close11 properties
- Falkiner Place52 properties
- Goldsbrough Close21 properties
- Haly Place7 properties
- Hardie Close26 properties
- Hawkesworth Place21 properties
- Jackie Howe Crescent130 properties
- Kater Close37 properties
- Macknight Place11 properties
- Marston Place10 properties
- Max Henry Crescent34 properties
- Merriman Crescent52 properties
- Mules Place13 properties
- Schinckel Place10 properties
- Starritt Place29 properties
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.