Suburb profile
Patchs Beach NSW 2478
Patchs Beach is located in the Northern Rivers region of New South Wales, postcode 2478. It has 33 properties across 3 streets, almost all houses. Explore every street in Patchs Beach, its property history, homes for sale and rent, who lives there, and the local agents.
About Patchs Beach
Patchs Beach, NSW 2478, sits in the Northern Rivers region and neighbours East Wardell and Empire Vale. Its 3 streets hold 33 properties, all of them houses.
Census figures are for Ballina Surrounds, which had 18,327 residents, a median age of 46 and an average household of 2.5 people. Median household income was $1,565 a week, the median mortgage repayment $1,900 a month and the median rent $410 a week. Of 6,824 dwellings, 5,901 were separate houses, 708 semi-detached, 145 flats and 65 other; 2,909 were owned outright, 2,149 owned with a mortgage and 1,467 rented.
Updated October 2026
Who lives in Patchs Beach
- 18,327Peoplelive in the area
- 46Median ageyears
- $1,565Median household incomea week
- $410Median renta week
Homes by type
- Houses5,901
- Townhouses and semis708
- Flats and apartments145
- Other65
Household
- Median mortgage repayment$1,900a month
- Household size2.5people on average
How homes are held
Streets in Patchs Beach
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.