Toormina NSW 2452
Toormina sits 521 km from Sydney CBD in New South Wales, around 5 hours 40 minutes by car. Census data records 6,171 residents with a median age of 45 and a median household income of $55,068 per year. On socioeconomic measures it sits in the bottom 20% nationally. The 2021 Census recorded a median rent of $335 per week and a median monthly mortgage of $1,517. The area shows high crime risk and no recorded bushfire exposure. Of 5 schools within the suburb boundary, 1 ranks above the state average, and walkability is high.
Is Toormina a good suburb?
Toormina scores a C (39/100) on SuburbScan's Liveability grade — strong on transit, weaker on safety and community.
Mixed results
5 schools · 1 above peer schools
Very walkable
Walkability 87/100 · 521.3 km · 339 min drive to Sydney
Around the state median
Median $768K
High crime risk
Fire 0/100 · Crime 88/100
Highly disadvantaged
SEIFA decile 1/10 · median age 45 · 6,171 residents
Liveability Rating
39 / 100 · Ranked #1052 in NSWEach bar is Toormina's rank among NSW suburbs, from 0 to 100 (higher is better).
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 Toormina?
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Our score
39 / 100
From schools, safety and socio-economic data — not opinion.
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Median House Price
Public listings dataToormina's house market is moving higher: the median sale price reached $768,000, roughly 11% above where it sat a year earlier.
Houses
$768,000
9% below its 4 neighbours (median $840,000)
Based on 93 recorded sales in the last 24 months.
Typically sold in 31 days — median across 27 sales that recorded a listing period
By bedrooms
- 3 bed 52 sales $733K
- 4 bed 29 sales $880K
Units
$465,000
Based on 15 recorded sales in the last 24 months.
Typically sold in 27 days — median across 3 sales that recorded a listing period
By bedrooms
- 2 bed 13 sales $455K
Currently for Sale
Last 6 monthsHouses in Toormina are currently listed at around $799,000 on average. Based on 13 houses listed in the past six months.
$799K
13 houses listed in the last 6 months.
14 of the suburb's 2,493 dwellings (0.6%) were listed for sale in the last 6 months.
Rental Market
Advertised rents · last 6 monthsHouses in Toormina rent for around $672 a week on average, based on 10 houses listed for rent in the past six months.
Houses
$672/wk
3% above its 3 neighbours (median $650/wk)
10 houses advertised for rent in the last 6 months.
Units
$400/wk
3 units advertised for rent in the last 6 months.
13 rentals advertised against an estimated 917 rented homes (1.4%) in the last 6 months.
Rent agreed on new leases
Jul–Sep 2026- 3-bed houses
- $690/wk
- 24 bonds
- +31% since 2021
- 2-bed units
- $510/wk
- 24 bonds
- +38% since 2021
Median weekly rent on bonds lodged for new tenancies across postcode 2452 (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 202591 Unaffordable · the average rental household in this region would pay about 33% of its income on the median rent in postcode 2452.
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$672/week ($35,000 a year) on a $799,000 median
Not enough unit sales and rentals in the window to calculate a yield.
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.
Short-Stay Rentals
12 active Airbnb listings: 12 whole homes and 0 rooms. Whole homes are about 0.5% of the suburb's homes.
Airbnb only, as at Jun 2026; other platforms are not included. Active means reviewed in the past 12 months. The share is against private dwellings at the 2021 Census.
Is Toormina safe? Crime statistics
2025Crime in Toormina sits in the high band, with 602 incidents recorded in 2025 — down roughly 15% on the prior year.
602 offences
14.6% since 2024Crime Trend
Serious Road Crashes
2021–202517 crashes
where someone was killed or admitted to hospital, 1 of them fatal
Where they happened
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
Coffs Harbour City Council has published 13 flood studies on the NSW Flood Data Portal. The mapped flood areas are in those studies; SuburbScan does not hold them.
Schools
Five schools serve Toormina, and results are mixed — some outperforming peer-suburb schools, some below. Coffs Harbour Bible Church School leads the pack.
- • 1,599 students across 5 schools (avg 320)
- • Sectors: 3 Government, 1 Independent, 1 Catholic
- • ICSEA 812-1052, median 941 (below the national baseline of 1000)
- • Largest: Toormina High School (739 students)
Primary
Secondary
Combined
Walkability
Toormina is very walkable on foot — at 87/100, most daily errands can be done on foot.
Public transport
Weekday and weekend service frequency across every stop inside Toormina.
- Peak (7-9am + 5-7pm)
- 99.5 arrivals/hr
- Off-peak weekday
- 63.3 arrivals/hr
- Saturday
- 19.8 arrivals/hr
- Median peak wait
- 0 min
- Span of service
- 17.6 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 Toormina.
- Full-fibre (FTTP) share
- 96%
- Premises covered
- 3,285
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
Coffs Harbour: 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
The ABS scores 18 small areas inside this suburb and averages them into the single decile above. They fall into 4 different deciles — a wide range, so parts of this suburb rank well above the average and parts well below it.
Toormina is home to about 6,200 residents, with a median age of 45, a touch above the national 38. Median household income runs at $55,000 a year, with unemployment at 6.6%.
2021 Census · change since 2016
Population
6,171
Median Age
45
Median Household Income
$55,068/yr
Census Median Rent
$335/wk
Census Median Mortgage
$1,517/mo
Avg Household Size
2.3
Median Personal Income
$30,680/yr
Unemployment Rate
6.6%
Unoccupied Dwellings
5.5%
Total Dwellings
2,493
Owner-Occupier Rate
63.2%
Houses
65.1%
Rental Stress
31.6%
Mortgage Stress
33.1%
Work From Home
8.1%
Dwelling Types
Property Ownership
157 rented from a state or territory housing authority and 61 from a community housing provider, as a share of the 836 rented dwellings above — not of all dwellings.
Demographics
- Born in Australia
- 81.0%
- English Spoken at Home
- 87.7%
- Employment Rate
- 45.4%
- Completed Year 12
- 28.7%
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.
81 residents (1.3%) 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.
3.3% of residents (195) lived in a capital city five years earlier, most of them in Sydney (124).
Top places newcomers came from, as a share of the 5,868 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
1% of employed residents work in a capital's city centre (15 of 2,317).
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 $1,437 a year through Coffs Harbour based on 2024 figures.
How this land is zoned
- Residential 51%
- Parks and recreation 28%
- Industrial 9%
- Infrastructure and transport 6%
- Environmental 4%
- Commercial 2%
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: Coffs Harbour
In the year to August 2026, 356 new dwellings were approved across Coffs Harbour. That mix is 208 houses and 148 units. Approvals are up 61.0% on the same period a year earlier.
Aboriginal Land Council
Aboriginal land in this area is administered by the Coffs Harbour 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.
Air Quality
CLEANPM2.5 averaged 4.3 µg/m³ in 2025 — below the WHO 2021 annual guideline (5 µg/m³). 1 day exceeded the daily threshold of 25 µg/m³.
PM10 averaged 10.8 µg/m³ · NO₂ averaged 0.22 pphm. Days over the limit in 2025: PM10 0 · NO₂ 0 · ozone 0.
From the Coffs Harbour monitoring station, 6.9 km away.
Climate & Setting
from Lower Bucca, 21.5 kmHigh rainfall.
- Elevation
- 11 m
- above sea level, at the suburb centre
- Distance to the ocean
- 1.7 km
- 1.9 km to a named beach
- Annual rainfall
- 1,827 mm
- 115 rainy days
- Summer max (Jan)
- —
- Winter min (Jul)
- —
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.
Industrial Emissions Nearby
3 facilities within 5 km- 3.8 kmWaste Treatment and Disposal ServicesTop reported: Particulate Matter ≤10.0 µm (PM10) · Carbon monoxide · Oxides of Nitrogen
- 4.2 kmIndustrial Gas ManufacturingTop reported: Total Volatile Organic Compounds
- 4.6 kmMetal Coating and FinishingTop reported: Oxides of Nitrogen · Hydrochloric acid · Carbon monoxide
EV adoption
In postcode 2452, 40 of 10,781 registered light vehicles are battery-electric on 31 January 2025. A further 2.0% (219 vehicles) are hybrid or plug-in hybrid, taking the non-petrol, non-diesel share to 2.4%.
Rooftop solar
In postcode 2452, 3,219 rooftop-solar systems totalling 18.7 MW have been installed since 2001, against 6,556 dwellings recorded in the 2021 Census. 139 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
3 mortgage brokers are registered in postcode 2452.
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 $768,000 this is $168,000 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 Pat Conaghan The Nationals
| Year | Winner | 2PP ALP | 2PP LNP | Swing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Pat Conaghan | 40.9% | 59.1% | +0.5 |
| 2022 | Pat Conaghan | 40.5% | 59.5% | -2.4 |
| 2019 | Pat Conaghan | 38.1% | 61.9% | -0.7 |
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 Gurmesh Singh The Nationals
Next state election: 13 March 2027.
| Year | Winner | Won with |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Gurmesh Singh NP | 63.2% |
| 2019 | Gurmesh Singh NP | 60.3% |
| 2015 | Andrew Fraser NP | 64.3% |
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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- #12 in Coffs Harbour's highest-income suburbs
- #12 in Coffs Harbour's most educated suburbs
- #15 in Coffs Harbour suburbs where the most residents moved from a capital city
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Common questions about Toormina
Is Toormina a safe place to live?
Recorded crime in Toormina is high (88/100, 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 Toormina?
Toormina has no recorded bushfire history. These are suburb-wide figures; check the address, as flood and bushfire exposure change street by street.
Is Toormina a good place to live?
Toormina has a SuburbScan Liveability grade of C (39/100), 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 Toormina?
Toormina, NSW had a population of 6,171 at the 2021 Australian Bureau of Statistics census.
What is the postcode for Toormina, NSW?
The postcode for Toormina, NSW is 2452.
How far is Toormina from Sydney?
Toormina is 521 km from Sydney CBD by road, about 339 minutes by car in normal traffic. Distance is the most-direct driving route, not straight-line.
What is the median household income in Toormina?
At the 2021 ABS Census, median household income in Toormina was $55,068 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 Toormina?
The median advertised rent in Toormina is $672 a week for houses (10 listings) and $400 a week for units (3 listings), from rental listings over the last six months.
What is the median age in Toormina?
The median age of residents in Toormina was 45 at the 2021 ABS Census.
How are the schools in Toormina?
There are 5 schools inside the Toormina boundary: 1 above, 1 at, and 3 below similar schools on NAPLAN, compared with same-state, same-type schools of similar socio-educational advantage (ICSEA).
Is Toormina walkable?
Toormina scores 87/100 on the SuburbScan Walkability Score, making it very walkable. The score is a weighted average of public transport, schools, parks, supermarkets, GPs, pharmacies, childcare, and hospitals within walking distance.
What is the air quality in Toormina?
The nearest government air-quality monitoring station to Toormina (Coffs Harbour) recorded a 2025 annual mean PM2.5 of 4.3 µg/m³ and PM10 of 10.8 µg/m³. That puts Toormina below the WHO annual guideline of 5 µg/m³.
What is the weather like in Toormina?
At the nearest Bureau of Meteorology station to Toormina, Lower Bucca (21.5 km away), 1,827 mm of rain a year over 115 rainy days over 2006-2026.
Is the First Home Owner Grant available in Toormina?
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 Toormina belong to?
Toormina sits within the Coffs Harbour local government area. Council rates, planning approvals, and waste collection fall under this LGA.
How much are council rates in Toormina?
The average residential rates bill through Coffs Harbour is $1,437 a year (2024). Every suburb in this LGA shares the same schedule — individual bills vary with land value.
How much is being built near Toormina?
Across Coffs Harbour, 356 new residential dwellings were approved in the year to August 2026 (source: ABS Building Approvals). That's up 61.0% 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 Toormina in?
Toormina sits within the federal Division of Cowper, currently held by Pat Conaghan (The Nationals).
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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
- Air quality · 2025
- Climate · 2006–2026
- Socio-economic (SEIFA) · 2021
- EV adoption · Jan 2025
- First Home Owner Grant · Sep 2026
- Federal electorate · 2025
- Short-stay rentals · Jun 2026
- 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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