Suburb profile

Tarbuck Bay NSW 2428

Tarbuck Bay is located in the Mid North Coast region of New South Wales, postcode 2428. It has 165 properties across 7 streets, almost all houses. Explore every street in Tarbuck Bay, its property history, homes for sale and rent, who lives there, and the local agents.

About Tarbuck Bay

Tarbuck Bay, NSW 2428, sits in the Mid North Coast region and neighbours Bungwahl, Smiths Lake, Wallingat and Charlotte Bay. Its 7 streets hold 165 properties, 160 of them houses and 5 units.

Census figures are for Forster-Tuncurry Surrounds, the statistical area that contains the suburb. The area 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. Tenure split into 1,413 owned outright, 811 owned with a mortgage and 374 rented.

Updated October 2026

Who lives in Tarbuck Bay

  • 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

Streets in Tarbuck 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.