Suburb profile
Tongarra NSW 2527
Tongarra is located in the Illawarra region of New South Wales, postcode 2527. It has 71 properties across 11 streets, almost all houses. Explore every street in Tongarra, its property history, homes for sale and rent, who lives there, and the local agents.
About Tongarra
Tongarra, NSW 2527, sits in the Illawarra region and neighbours Macquarie Pass, Calderwood, Tullimbar and Knights Hill. Its 11 streets hold 71 properties, all of them houses.
Census figures are for the Albion Park - Macquarie Pass area, which had 19,026 residents, a median age of 34 and an average household of 2.9 people. Median household income was $2,088 a week, the median mortgage repayment $2,167 a month and the median rent $480 a week. Of 6,404 dwellings, 5,594 were separate houses, 760 semi-detached, 38 flats and 4 other; 1,798 were owned outright, 3,347 owned with a mortgage and 1,164 rented.
Updated October 2026
Who lives in Tongarra
- 19,026Peoplelive in the area
- 34Median ageyears
- $2,088Median household incomea week
- $480Median renta week
Homes by type
- Houses5,594
- Townhouses and semis760
- Flats and apartments38
- Other4
Household
- Median mortgage repayment$2,167a month
- Household size2.9people on average
How homes are held
Streets in Tongarra
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.