Suburb profile
Tharwa ACT 2620
Tharwa is located in the Canberra region of the Australian Capital Territory, postcode 2620. It has 73 properties across 7 streets, almost all houses. Explore every street in Tharwa, its property history, homes for sale and rent, who lives there, and the local agents.
About Tharwa
Tharwa, ACT 2620, sits in the Canberra region and neighbours Paddys River, Tennent and Tuggeranong. Its 7 streets hold 73 properties, all of them houses.
Census figures are for the ACT - South West area, which covers the whole suburb. At the 2021 Census the area had 556 residents, a median age of 35 and an average household of 3.1 people. Median household income was $3,134 a week, the median mortgage repayment $2,292 a month and the median rent $385 a week. Of 165 dwellings, 166 were separate houses and none were semi-detached, flats or other types; 28 were owned outright, 92 owned with a mortgage and 33 rented.
Updated October 2026
Who lives in Tharwa
- 556Peoplelive in the area
- 35Median ageyears
- $3,134Median household incomea week
- $385Median renta week
Homes by type
- Houses166
Household
- Median mortgage repayment$2,292a month
- Household size3.1people on average
How homes are held
Streets in Tharwa
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.