Suburb profile

Sunshine Bay NSW 2536

Sunshine Bay is located in the Capital Region of New South Wales, postcode 2536. It has 1,336 properties across 44 streets, mostly houses. Explore every street in Sunshine Bay, its property history, homes for sale and rent, who lives there, and the local agents.

About Sunshine Bay

Sunshine Bay, NSW 2536, sits in the Capital Region and neighbours Denhams Beach, Surf Beach and Batehaven. Its 44 streets hold 1,336 properties, 921 of them houses and 415 units.

Census figures are for the statistical area of Batemans Bay - South, which had 8,938 residents, a median age of 54 and an average household of 2.2 people. Median household income was $1,215 a week, the median mortgage repayment $1,600 a month and the median rent $350 a week. Of 3,697 dwellings, 2,959 were separate houses, 406 semi-detached and 280 flats, with 37 other. Tenure was 1,778 owned outright, 855 owned with a mortgage and 947 rented.

Updated October 2026

Who lives in Sunshine Bay

  • 8,938Peoplelive in the area
  • 54Median ageyears
  • $1,215Median household incomea week
  • $350Median renta week

Homes by type

  • Houses2,959
  • Townhouses and semis406
  • Flats and apartments280
  • Other37

Household

  • Median mortgage repayment$1,600a month
  • Household size2.2people on average

How homes are held

Owned outright 1,778Owned with a mortgage 855Rented 947Other 117

Streets in Sunshine Bay

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.