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

Owned outright 207Owned with a mortgage 227Rented 48Other 6

Streets in Macarthur

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.