Located in New South Wales, Long Beach sits 276 km from Sydney CBD, around 3 hours 45 minutes by car. The suburb has 1,758 residents, a median age of 51, and a median household income of $72,228 per year. By household income, education, and employment patterns, it ranks in the middle range nationally. The suburb grew 22.4% between 2016 and 2021. At the 2021 Census, households here paid a median rent of $410 per week and a median monthly mortgage of $1,699. Long Beach is characterised by high bushfire risk. Walkability is low.
Is Long Beach a good suburb?
Long Beach scores a C (38/100) on SuburbScan's Liveability grade — weaker on transit.
Car-dependent
Walkability 19/100 · 275.7 km · 225 min drive to Sydney
Around the state median
Median $925K
Moderate bushfire risk
Fire 65/100 · Crime 26/100
Mid-range socio-economic
SEIFA decile 5/10 · median age 51 · 1,758 residents
Liveability Rating
38 / 100 · Ranked #1069 in NSWEach bar is Long Beach'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.
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Our score
38 / 100
From schools, safety and socio-economic data — not opinion.
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Median House Price
Public listings dataLong Beach's house market is moving lower: the median sale price reached $925,000, 0.3% below where it sat a year earlier.
Houses
$925,000
23% above its 4 neighbours (median $755,000)
Based on 95 recorded sales in the last 24 months.
Typically sold in 50 days — median across 32 sales that recorded a listing period
By bedrooms
- 3 bed 28 sales $845K
- 4 bed 44 sales $998K
- 5 bed 12 sales $1.15M
Land
$350,000
Based on 19 recorded sales in the last 24 months.
Currently for Sale
Last 6 monthsHouses in Long Beach are currently listed at around $1 million on average. Based on 33 houses listed in the past six months.
$1M
33 houses listed in the last 6 months.
33 of the suburb's 666 dwellings (5.0%) were listed for sale in the last 6 months.
Rental Market
Advertised rents · last 6 monthsHouses in Long Beach rent for around $750 a week on average, based on 8 houses listed for rent in the past six months.
$750/wk
8 houses advertised for rent in the last 6 months.
8 rentals advertised against an estimated 108 rented homes (7.4%) in the last 6 months.
Rent agreed on new leases
Jul–Sep 2026- 3-bed houses
- $600/wk
- 50 bonds
- +33% since 2021
- 2-bed units
- $450/wk
- 25 bonds
- +29% since 2021
Median weekly rent on bonds lodged for new tenancies across postcode 2536 (NSW publishes bonds by postcode, which can cover several suburbs). Change since 2021 compares the median of the first four quarters with the last four. Asking rents above come from advertised listings.
Rental affordability
June quarter 2025104 Moderately unaffordable · the average rental household in this region would pay about 29% of its income on the median rent in postcode 2536.
SGS Rental Affordability Index: a score of 100 means rent takes 30% of income, the usual housing-stress line; lower scores are less affordable. "Region" is the capital city or the rest of the state.
Gross rental yield
Indicative$750/week ($39,000 a year) on a $1 million median
Gross yield — before strata, rates, management, insurance and vacancy. Calculated from median advertised rents and median asking prices over the last 6 months. How we calculate.
Is Long Beach safe? Crime statistics
2025Crime in Long Beach sits in the low band, with 36 incidents recorded in 2025.
36 offences
no change since 2024Crime Trend
Serious Road Crashes
2021–20252 crashes
where someone was killed or admitted to hospital
Crashes are counted where they happened, so a main road through the suburb 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
1988–2025Nearest Eroding Coastline
- Distance
- 1.1 km
- Rate
- -0.32 m/yr
- Net Movement
- -22.4 m
- Certainty
- good
Data Quality
Schools
Walkability
Long Beach is very car-dependent on foot — at 19/100, nearly all errands require a car.
Public transport
Weekday and weekend service frequency across every stop inside Long Beach.
- Peak (7-9am + 5-7pm)
- 22.0 arrivals/hr
- Off-peak weekday
- 11.4 arrivals/hr
- Saturday
- 2.4 arrivals/hr
- Median peak wait
- 0 min
- Span of service
- 10.1 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 Long Beach.
- Full-fibre (FTTP) share
- 48%
- Premises covered
- 1,097
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 suburb alone — this suburb's own population is in the census section above.
Socio-economic profile
Long Beach is home to about 1,800 residents, with a median age of 51 — noticeably older than the national figure of 38. Median household income runs at $72,000 a year, with unemployment at 4.5%.
2021 Census · change since 2016
Population
1,758
Median Age
51
Median Household Income
$72,228/yr
Census Median Rent
$410/wk
Census Median Mortgage
$1,699/mo
Avg Household Size
2.5
Median Personal Income
$35,724/yr
Unemployment Rate
4.5%
Unoccupied Dwellings
45.9%
Total Dwellings
666
Owner-Occupier Rate
83.8%
Houses
91.9%
Rental Stress
29.5%
Mortgage Stress
28.2%
Work From Home
14.1%
Dwelling Types
Property Ownership
Demographics
- Born in Australia
- 80.8%
- English Spoken at Home
- 90.9%
- Employment Rate
- 47.8%
- Completed Year 12
- 36.9%
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.
13.1% of residents (219) lived in a capital city five years earlier, most of them in Sydney (102).
Top places newcomers came from, as a share of the 1,676 residents aged five and over. Areas are ABS statistical regions. Small counts are approximate: the ABS adjusts every figure slightly to protect privacy.
Languages Spoken at Home
Top languages other than English, as a share of all residents.
Age Distribution
Family & Household Composition
Commute to Work
2% of employed residents work in a capital's city centre (15 of 697).
City centre: the ABS area around each capital's CBD, such as Sydney Inner City or Perth City (which takes in Subiaco and Leederville). 2021 Census place of 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
- Environmental 82%
- Residential 16%
- Parks and recreation 1%
Zoning sets what may be built, not what is there today. A single address can sit in a different zone to the suburb 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 Batemans Bay 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 Moruya Heads Pilot Station, 24.9 kmHigh rainfall — warm summers, mild winters.
- Elevation
- 43 m
- above sea level, at the suburb centre
- Distance to the ocean
- 1.1 km
- 1.3 km to a named beach
- Annual rainfall
- 914 mm
- 83 rainy days
- Summer max (Jan)
- 23.7°C
- 2 days ≥ 35°C
- Winter min (Jul)
- 7.5°C
- 0 frost days ≤ 0°C
Elevation is the ground at the suburb 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 2536, 99 of 16,251 registered light vehicles are battery-electric on 31 January 2025. A further 2.4% (387 vehicles) are hybrid or plug-in hybrid, taking the non-petrol, non-diesel share to 3.0%.
Rooftop solar
In postcode 2536, 4,592 rooftop-solar systems totalling 30.2 MW have been installed since 2001, against 11,110 dwellings recorded in the 2021 Census. 320 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
5 mortgage brokers are registered in postcode 2536.
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 $925,000 this is $325,000 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 Fiona Phillips Australian Labor Party
| Year | Winner | 2PP ALP | 2PP LNP | Swing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Fiona Phillips | 55.1% | 44.9% | +5.0 |
| 2022 | Fiona Phillips | 50.2% | 49.8% | +2.4 |
| 2019 | Fiona Phillips | 52.6% | 47.4% | -3.3 |
Results are per division — federal electoral boundaries are redrawn periodically, so the history reflects this division's past, not necessarily the exact suburb'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 suburb's voters. Results: © State of New South Wales through the NSW Electoral Commission, CC BY 4.0, adapted.
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Common questions about Long Beach
Is Long Beach a safe place to live?
Recorded crime in Long Beach is low (26/100, ranked against other NSW suburbs on offences per resident).
What natural hazards affect Long Beach?
Long Beach has a moderate recorded bushfire history (65/100, ranked against every Australian suburb with any fire history). These are suburb-wide figures; check the address, as flood and bushfire exposure change street by street.
Is Long Beach a good place to live?
Long Beach has a SuburbScan Liveability grade of C (38/100), 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 Long Beach?
Long Beach, NSW had a population of 1,758 at the 2021 Australian Bureau of Statistics census.
What is the postcode for Long Beach, NSW?
The postcode for Long Beach, NSW is 2536.
How far is Long Beach from Sydney?
Long Beach is 276 km from Sydney CBD by road, about 225 minutes by car in normal traffic. Distance is the most-direct driving route, not straight-line.
What is the median household income in Long Beach?
At the 2021 ABS Census, median household income in Long Beach was $72,228 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 Long Beach?
The median advertised rent in Long Beach is $750 a week for houses (8 listings), from rental listings over the last six months.
What is the median age in Long Beach?
The median age of residents in Long Beach was 51 at the 2021 ABS Census.
Is Long Beach at risk of bushfire?
Long Beach has a moderate recorded bushfire history (65/100). The score comes from Geoscience Australia's historical bushfire boundaries, with planned burns excluded: the area of recorded fires touching the suburb 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.
Is Long Beach walkable?
Long Beach scores 19/100 on the SuburbScan Walkability Score, making it very car-dependent. The score is a weighted average of public transport, schools, parks, supermarkets, GPs, pharmacies, childcare, and hospitals within walking distance.
What is the weather like in Long Beach?
At the nearest Bureau of Meteorology station to Long Beach, Moruya Heads Pilot Station (24.9 km away), summer days average 23.7°C, winter nights 7.5°C, 914 mm of rain a year over 83 rainy days, and 2 days a year above 35°C over 2006-2026.
Is the First Home Owner Grant available in Long Beach?
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 Long Beach belong to?
Long Beach sits within the Eurobodalla local government area. Council rates, planning approvals, and waste collection fall under this LGA.
How much are council rates in Long Beach?
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 Long Beach?
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 Long Beach in?
Long Beach sits within the federal Division of Gilmore, currently held by Fiona Phillips (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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