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Shellharbour NSW 2529

Shellharbour is located in the Illawarra region of New South Wales, postcode 2529. It has 2,151 properties across 51 streets. Explore every street in Shellharbour, its property history, homes for sale and rent, who lives there, and the local agents.

About Shellharbour

Shellharbour, NSW 2529, sits in the Illawarra region and neighbours Barrack Heights, Barrack Point, Blackbutt and Shell Cove. Its 51 streets hold 2,151 properties, 1,311 of them houses and 840 units.

Census figures are for the Shellharbour - Flinders area, which had 19,341 residents, a median age of 39 and an average household of 2.8 people. Median household income was $2,127 a week, the median mortgage repayment $2,200 a month and the median rent $510 a week. Of 6,609 dwellings, 5,125 were separate houses, 1,065 semi-detached, 343 flats and 59 other; 2,251 were owned outright, 2,619 owned with a mortgage and 1,570 rented.

Updated October 2026

Who lives in Shellharbour

  • 19,341Peoplelive in the area
  • 39Median ageyears
  • $2,127Median household incomea week
  • $510Median renta week

Homes by type

  • Houses5,125
  • Townhouses and semis1,065
  • Flats and apartments343
  • Other59

Household

  • Median mortgage repayment$2,200a month
  • Household size2.8people on average

How homes are held

Owned outright 2,251Owned with a mortgage 2,619Rented 1,570Other 169

Properties in Shellharbour

Schools in Shellharbour

  • Amity College Illawarra Campus

    IndependentPrimary and secondary

  • Shellharbour Public School

    GovernmentPrimary

  • Stella Maris Catholic Primary School

    CatholicPrimary

Local agents in Shellharbour

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Agencies that specialise in Shellharbour

Streets in Shellharbour

A

  1. Acmena Close5 properties
  2. Addison Street416 properties
  3. Adelaide Place25 properties
  4. Allens Lane3 properties

B

  1. Baxter Lane4 properties
  2. Beach Road8 properties
  3. Boollwarroo Parade82 properties
  4. Bywong Close6 properties

C

  1. Carvie Close4 properties
  2. Chisholm Street24 properties
  3. Coolawin Crescent48 properties
  4. Corella Close9 properties

D

  1. Darley Street158 properties
  2. Dryandra Way8 properties

E

  1. Eastern Avenue47 properties
  2. Evergreen Drive21 properties

G

  1. Gardeners Crescent15 properties

H

  1. Hawk Place4 properties
  2. Heron Place17 properties
  3. Hockey Esplanade1 property

J

  1. John Street18 properties
  2. Junction Road2 properties

K

  1. Kestrel Close9 properties

L

  1. Lavender Grove13 properties
  2. Liddell Street4 properties

M

  1. Mary Street196 properties
  2. Melia Street3 properties

N

  1. Northern Avenue6 properties

O

  1. Ocean Beach Drive114 properties
  2. Old Bass Point Road40 properties

P

  1. Pacific Lane3 properties
  2. Parklands Drive90 properties

R

  1. Reid Street18 properties
  2. Robertson Street30 properties

S

  1. Shellharbour Road11 properties
  2. Sherwood Place21 properties
  3. Sophia Street38 properties
  4. Surf Road21 properties

T

  1. Teal Place8 properties
  2. The Circuit58 properties
  3. The Grove15 properties
  4. The Ridge15 properties
  5. Towns Street72 properties

W

  1. Wandoo Place8 properties
  2. Wattle Road74 properties
  3. Wentworth Street133 properties
  4. Wickham Lane2 properties
  5. William Street85 properties
  6. Wilson Street14 properties
  7. Wollongong Lane3 properties
  8. Wollongong Street122 properties

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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.

School details © Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA), from the Australian Schools List, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International and modified. ACARA does not endorse Listd.

Area summaries are generated from the national address file and ABS Census data, and checked against those figures before publication.