Suburb profile
Main Arm NSW 2482
Main Arm is located in the Northern Rivers region of New South Wales, postcode 2482. It has 280 properties across 11 streets, mostly houses. Explore every street in Main Arm, its property history, homes for sale and rent, who lives there, and the local agents.
About Main Arm
Main Arm, NSW 2482, sits in the Northern Rivers region and neighbours Upper Main Arm, The Pocket, Upper Burringbar and Koonyum Range. Its 11 streets hold 280 properties, 231 of them houses and 49 units.
Census figures are for the Mullumbimby area. There the 2021 Census gave 8,896 residents, a median age of 46 and an average household of 2.5 people. Median household income was $1,364 a week, the median mortgage repayment $1,950 a month and the median rent $450 a week. Of 3,076 dwellings, 2,835 were separate houses, 70 semi-detached and 95 flats, with 57 other; 1,262 were owned outright, 845 owned with a mortgage and 834 rented.
Updated October 2026
Who lives in Main Arm
- 8,896Peoplelive in the area
- 46Median ageyears
- $1,364Median household incomea week
- $450Median renta week
Homes by type
- Houses2,835
- Townhouses and semis70
- Flats and apartments95
- Other57
Household
- Median mortgage repayment$1,950a month
- Household size2.5people on average
How homes are held
Streets in Main Arm
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.