Located in New South Wales, Bodalla sits 334 km from Sydney CBD, around 4 hours 40 minutes by car. The locality has 808 residents, a median age of 53, and a median household income of $61,412 per year. By household income, education, and employment patterns, it ranks in the lower-middle tier nationally. The locality grew 9.3% between 2016 and 2021. At the 2021 Census, households here paid a median rent of $275 per week and a median monthly mortgage of $1,300. Bodalla is characterised by high crime risk and high bushfire risk. 1 school sits within the locality boundary, and walkability is low.
Is Bodalla a good place to live?
Bodalla scores a D (18/100) on SuburbScan's Liveability grade — weaker on transit and safety.
Mixed results
1 school
Car-dependent
Walkability 0/100 · 333.9 km · 281 min drive to Sydney
Around the state median
Median $860K
High crime risk
Fire 61/100 · Crime 72/100
Below-average income
SEIFA decile 3/10 · median age 53 · 808 residents
Liveability Rating
18 / 100 · Ranked #1494 in NSWEach bar is Bodalla's rank among NSW suburbs, from 0 to 100 (higher is better). Scored on 4 of 5 factors: no school data, so the other factors carry its weight.
No flood data is published for New South Wales — a blank here means we hold no data, not that there is no risk.
How do you rate the liveability in Bodalla?
Local knowledge beats any dataset. Rate it and see what other residents think.
Our score
18 / 100
From schools, safety and socio-economic data — not opinion.
Residents say
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Median House Price
Public listings dataBodalla's house market is moving lower: the median sale price reached $860,000, about 3% below where it sat a year earlier.
Houses
$860,000
In line with its 4 neighbours (median $840,000)
Based on 14 recorded sales in the last 24 months.
Typically sold in 100 days — median across 7 sales that recorded a listing period
By bedrooms
- 3 bed 10 sales $860K
Land
$855,000
Based on only 4 sales — small sample, take as indicative.
Currently for Sale
Last 6 monthsHouses in Bodalla are currently listed at around $1.15 million on average. Based on 7 houses listed in the past six months.
$1.15M
7 houses listed in the last 6 months.
7 of the suburb's 313 dwellings (2.2%) were listed for sale in the last 6 months.
Is Bodalla safe? Crime statistics
2025Crime in Bodalla sits in the high band, with 53 incidents recorded in 2025 — up about 6% on the prior year.
53 offences
6.0% since 2024Crime Trend
Serious Road Crashes
2021–20253 crashes
where someone was killed or admitted to hospital, 1 of them fatal
Crashes are counted where they happened, so a main road through the locality carries people passing through; this is not a measure of risk to residents. Roads are listed with 3 or more serious crashes.
Council Flood Studies
Eurobodalla Shire Council has published 10 flood studies on the NSW Flood Data Portal. The mapped flood areas are in those studies; SuburbScan does not hold them.
- Batemans Bay Urban Creeks Flood Study 2021
- Flood Prone Access to Moruya Hospital - Flood Assessment and Murray Street Crossing Upgrade Concept Design 2014
- Moruya Flooding - Climate Change Assessment 2011
- Reedy Creek, Malua Bay Floodplain Risk Management Study & Plan 2005
- Lot 100 DP Flora Crescent, Batemans Bay - Flood Study 2004
Coastal Erosion
Shoreline Change Summary
1990–2025Nearest Eroding Coastline
- Distance
- 11.1 km
- Rate
- -0.17 m/yr
- Net Movement
- -8.4 m
- Certainty
- good
Data Quality
Schools
One school serve Bodalla, and performance is broadly on par with peer-suburb schools.
- • 65 students in one school (avg 65)
Primary
Walkability
Bodalla is very car-dependent on foot — at 0/100, nearly all errands require a car.
We hold no public transport timetable data for this area, so public transport is not rated here and the score is spread across the remaining components. It is not counted as zero.
Public transport
Weekday and weekend service frequency across every stop inside Bodalla.
- Peak (7-9am + 5-7pm)
- 11.8 arrivals/hr
- Off-peak weekday
- 3.9 arrivals/hr
- Saturday
- 0.2 arrivals/hr
- Median peak wait
- 1 min
- Span of service
- 8.9 hours
Scheduled service only, based on the 21 October 2026 timetable. Reliability (delays, cancellations) not measured.
NBN connectivity
The internet access technology available across NBN premises in Bodalla.
- Full-fibre (FTTP) share
- 0%
- Premises covered
- 402
NBN Co fixed-line and fixed-wireless premises, as at 30 December 2025. Higher-quality technologies (full fibre) score above copper, wireless, and satellite. Actual speeds depend on your plan.
Amenities
Eurobodalla: council population
The three add up to the change above. These are council-wide figures from the ABS, not figures for this locality alone — this locality's own population is in the census section above.
Socio-economic profile
The ABS scores 5 small areas inside this locality and averages them into the single decile above. They fall into 4 different deciles — a wide range, so parts of this locality rank well above the average and parts well below it.
Bodalla is home to 808 residents, with a median age of 53 — noticeably older than the national figure of 38. Median household income runs at $61,000 a year, with unemployment at 4.5%.
2021 Census · change since 2016
Population
808
Median Age
53
Median Household Income
$61,412/yr
Census Median Rent
$275/wk
Census Median Mortgage
$1,300/mo
Avg Household Size
2.3
Median Personal Income
$32,032/yr
Unemployment Rate
4.5%
Unoccupied Dwellings
16.9%
Total Dwellings
313
Owner-Occupier Rate
83.4%
Houses
97.1%
Rental Stress
23.3%
Mortgage Stress
25.4%
Work From Home
18.0%
Dwelling Types
Property Ownership
10 rented from a state or territory housing authority and 4 from a community housing provider, as a share of the 50 rented dwellings above — not of all dwellings.
Demographics
- Born in Australia
- 79.0%
- English Spoken at Home
- 86.6%
- Employment Rate
- 48.6%
- Completed Year 12
- 34.4%
Occupations
Religion
Country of Birth (overseas)
Largest overseas birthplaces, as a share of all residents.
When They Arrived
Share of all residents by the year they arrived in Australia. Periods cover different numbers of years, so compare the shape rather than the bar widths.
0 residents (0.0%) arrived since 2016. Australia’s borders were closed to most arrivals from March 2020, so the last two years of that period are much smaller than the ones before them — nationally 260,799 people arrived in 2019 against 28,521 in 2021.
Where New Residents Came From
Where residents aged five and over lived five years before the 2021 Census, for those who lived somewhere else.
5.8% of residents (45) lived in a capital city five years earlier, most of them in Sydney (28).
Top places newcomers came from, as a share of the 777 residents aged five and over. Areas are ABS statistical regions. Small counts are approximate: the ABS adjusts every figure slightly to protect privacy.
Age Distribution
Family & Household Composition
Commute to Work
Education
Cars per Dwelling
Council Rates
Households face an average residential rates bill of $1,246 a year through Eurobodalla based on 2024 figures.
How this land is zoned
- Rural and farming 87%
- Environmental 11%
- Residential 1%
Zoning sets what may be built, not what is there today. A single address can sit in a different zone to the locality around it — the property page shows the zone for one address.
Building Approvals: Eurobodalla
In the year to August 2026, 211 new dwellings were approved across Eurobodalla. That mix is 153 houses and 58 units. Approvals are down 9.4% on the same period a year earlier.
Aboriginal Land Council
Aboriginal land in this area is administered by the Bodalla Local Aboriginal Land Council.
Local Aboriginal Land Councils are statutory bodies under the Aboriginal Land Rights Act 1983, responsible for land claims and land management for their members. Their boundaries are administrative and are not a statement of whose Country this is. NSW does not publish a register of Aboriginal parties by area — they are registered for each project.
Climate & Setting
from Narooma (Marine Rescue), 17.6 kmHigh rainfall — warm summers, mild winters.
- Elevation
- 18 m
- above sea level, at the locality centre
- Distance to the ocean
- 10.3 km
- Annual rainfall
- 948 mm
- 86 rainy days
- Summer max (Jan)
- 23.4°C
- 1 days ≥ 35°C
- Winter min (Jul)
- 7.8°C
- 0 frost days ≤ 0°C
Elevation is the ground at the locality centre, from Geoscience Australia's National Digital Elevation Model. Approximate — it reads high in dense built-up areas. It is a measure of height above sea level and not an indicator of flood risk, which depends on height above nearby waterways.
EV adoption
In postcode 2545, 0 of 1,123 registered light vehicles are battery-electric on 31 January 2025. A further 0.7% (8 vehicles) are hybrid or plug-in hybrid, taking the non-petrol, non-diesel share to 0.7%.
Rooftop solar
In postcode 2545, 325 rooftop-solar systems totalling 1.9 MW have been installed since 2001, against 589 dwellings recorded in the 2021 Census. 30 went up in the last year.
Counts every system certified since 2001, so a roof re-fitted with a newer system is counted twice, and small commercial systems are included alongside houses — useful for comparing postcodes, not an estimate of how many homes have working panels today.
2026 covers part of the year only, to 2026-07.
First Home Owner Grant
FY2026-27$10,000 for new homes priced up to $600,000.
Off-the-plan or contracted-build value cap is $750,000 (vs $600,000 for completed new homes). Stamp duty concessions are a separate scheme (First Home Buyers Assistance).
Mortgage repayments
Transfer duty at the owner-occupier rate, and it excludes first home buyer concessions — those can cut it substantially or remove it entirely. Excludes legal, inspection and lender fees. Check with Revenue NSW
The First Home Owner Grant applies to newly built homes only, so it isn't available on an established purchase. A first home buyer building or buying new under $600,000 may qualify for $10,000 — see what qualifies with Revenue NSW.
At $860,000 this is $260,000 above the $600,000 First Home Owner Grant cap. A first home buyer may qualify for $10,000 on a newly built home — check eligibility with Revenue NSW.
A deposit under 20% usually attracts Lenders Mortgage Insurance, which this doesn't include.
Principal and interest over 30 years, fixed rate. Excludes fees, offset, redraw and LMI. Default rate is the median comparison rate across 1788 advertised products as at 2026-10-27 — indicative only, and not an offer. Your rate depends on the lender, your deposit and your circumstances. Not financial advice.
Federal Electorate
Currently held by Kristy Mcbain Australian Labor Party
| Year | Winner | 2PP ALP | 2PP LNP | Swing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Kristy Mcbain | 57.2% | 42.8% | +1.1 |
| 2022 | Kristy Mcbain | 58.2% | 41.8% | -7.3 |
| 2019 | Mike Kelly | 50.9% | 49.1% | +2.1 |
Results are per division — federal electoral boundaries are redrawn periodically, so the history reflects this division's past, not necessarily the exact locality's voters across time.
State Electorate
Currently held by Michael Holland Labor
Next state election: 13 March 2027.
| Year | Winner | Won with |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Michael Holland ALP | 60.4% |
| 2019 | Andrew Constance LP | 56.9% |
| 2015 | Andrew Constance LP | 58.2% |
Results are per district. Districts were last redrawn in 2021, so results from before then describe the district of that name, not necessarily this locality's voters. Results: © State of New South Wales through the NSW Electoral Commission, CC BY 4.0, adapted.
Looking at a specific address in Bodalla?
Every figure above is a locality average, and an average smooths over the difference between a street of family homes and a block of flats. Look up one address and you get the census for the few hundred people around it, its own nearest schools and stops, and what the state has mapped for that block.
- The census for a few hundred neighbours, not all 808 residents
- Nearest and zoned schools, with the walk from that door
- Flood, bushfire and noise mapping, where the state publishes it
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Nearby suburbs
Narooma NSW 2546
Tuross Head NSW 2537
Dalmeny NSW 2546
Kianga NSW 2546
Potato Point NSW 2545
Turlinjah NSW 2537
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Common questions about Bodalla
Is Bodalla a safe place to live?
Recorded crime in Bodalla is high (72/100, ranked against other NSW suburbs on offences per resident). Offences against shops, venues and visitors are divided by the people who live here, so suburbs with large daytime or visitor populations rank higher than living there may feel.
What natural hazards affect Bodalla?
Bodalla has a moderate recorded bushfire history (61/100, ranked against every Australian suburb with any fire history). These are locality-wide figures; check the address, as flood and bushfire exposure change street by street.
Is Bodalla a good place to live?
Bodalla has a SuburbScan Liveability grade of D (18/100), ranked against other NSW suburbs on school quality (25%), safety (25%), SEIFA socio-economic advantage (25%), walkability (15%) and CBD access (10%). Whether it suits you depends on what you weigh — each of those is on this page.
What is the population of Bodalla?
Bodalla, NSW had a population of 808 at the 2021 Australian Bureau of Statistics census.
What is the postcode for Bodalla, NSW?
The postcode for Bodalla, NSW is 2545.
How far is Bodalla from Sydney?
Bodalla is 334 km from Sydney CBD by road, about 281 minutes by car in normal traffic. Distance is the most-direct driving route, not straight-line.
What is the median household income in Bodalla?
At the 2021 ABS Census, median household income in Bodalla was $61,412 a year. It is the most recent suburb-level income figure until 2026 Census results are released in 2027.
What is the median weekly rent in Bodalla?
There are too few current rental listings in Bodalla for a reliable median. At the 2021 ABS Census the median weekly rent was $275, across all dwelling types.
What is the median age in Bodalla?
The median age of residents in Bodalla was 53 at the 2021 ABS Census.
Is Bodalla at risk of bushfire?
Bodalla has a moderate recorded bushfire history (61/100). The score comes from Geoscience Australia's historical bushfire boundaries, with planned burns excluded: the area of recorded fires touching the locality relative to its size, ranked against every Australian suburb with any fire history. It records where fire has burned, not a bushfire-prone land designation, which your council's planning scheme sets.
How are the schools in Bodalla?
There is 1 school inside the Bodalla boundary: 1 at similar schools on NAPLAN, compared with same-state, same-type schools of similar socio-educational advantage (ICSEA).
What is the weather like in Bodalla?
At the nearest Bureau of Meteorology station to Bodalla, Narooma (Marine Rescue) (17.6 km away), summer days average 23.4°C, winter nights 7.8°C, 948 mm of rain a year over 86 rainy days, and 1 days a year above 35°C over 2006-2026.
Is the First Home Owner Grant available in Bodalla?
First-home buyers in NSW may be eligible for $10,000 towards new homes with a purchase price up to $600,000. The grant is administered by Revenue NSW; confirm current eligibility before signing a contract — state rules and amounts can change.
What council does Bodalla belong to?
Bodalla sits within the Eurobodalla local government area. Council rates, planning approvals, and waste collection fall under this LGA.
How much are council rates in Bodalla?
The average residential rates bill through Eurobodalla is $1,246 a year (2024). Every suburb in this LGA shares the same schedule — individual bills vary with land value.
How much is being built near Bodalla?
Across Eurobodalla, 211 new residential dwellings were approved in the year to August 2026 (source: ABS Building Approvals). That's down 9.4% on the same period a year earlier. These are LGA-level totals — every suburb in the council shares the same figure.
Which federal electorate is Bodalla in?
Bodalla sits within the federal Division of Eden-monaro, currently held by Kristy Mcbain (Australian Labor Party).
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Data freshness
- Census · 2021
- Median sale prices · Oct 2026
- For-sale & rental market · Oct 2026
- Council rates · FY 2024–25
- Building approvals · Aug 2026
- Schools · 2025
- Public transport · Oct 2026
- NBN connectivity · Dec 2025
- Crime · 2025
- Road crashes · 2021–2025
- Climate · 2006–2026
- Socio-economic (SEIFA) · 2021
- EV adoption · Jan 2025
- First Home Owner Grant · Sep 2026
- Federal electorate · 2025
- State electorate · 2023
- Amenities · Sep 2026
- Health & emergency facilities · Sep 2026
- Industrial emissions (NPI) · 2024/2025
- Coastal erosion · 1988–2025
- Aircraft noise · 2024
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