Suburb profile

Smiths Lake NSW 2428

Smiths Lake is located in the Mid North Coast region of New South Wales, postcode 2428. It has 1,184 properties across 35 streets, almost all houses. Explore every street in Smiths Lake, its property history, homes for sale and rent, who lives there, and the local agents.

About Smiths Lake

Smiths Lake, NSW 2428, sits in the Mid North Coast region and neighbours Bungwahl, Charlotte Bay, Sandbar and Tarbuck Bay. Its 35 streets hold 1,184 properties, 1,148 of them houses and 36 units.

Census figures are for Forster-Tuncurry Surrounds, which had 6,988 residents, a median age of 53 and an average household of 2.3 people. Median household income was $1,142 a week, the median mortgage repayment $1,500 a month and the median rent $350 a week. Of 2,710 dwellings, 2,500 were separate houses, 64 semi-detached, 16 flats and 126 other; 1,413 were owned outright, 811 owned with a mortgage and 374 rented.

Updated October 2026

Who lives in Smiths Lake

  • 6,988Peoplelive in the area
  • 53Median ageyears
  • $1,142Median household incomea week
  • $350Median renta week

Homes by type

  • Houses2,500
  • Townhouses and semis64
  • Flats and apartments16
  • Other126

Household

  • Median mortgage repayment$1,500a month
  • Household size2.3people on average

How homes are held

Owned outright 1,413Owned with a mortgage 811Rented 374Other 112

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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.

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