Evans Head (NSW 2473): property prices, streets & suburb profile

Richmond Valley LGA · Latest published data August 2026 · Page updated August 2026 · Public government records

Evans Head · NSW 2473 · median house price (24 months)
$1,200,000+119.0%
vs 10 years ago (repeat-sales index, all dwellings)
Evans Head has about 1,538 dwellings on record, with 64 house and 62 unit sales recorded in the last two years across 59 streets.
Median house price
$1,200,000
64 sales, 24 months
Median unit price
$750,000
62 strata sales, 24 months
Median rent, 3-br house
$630/wk
19 bonds, 12 months
Gross rental yield
2.7%
3-br postcode rent vs house median
How tightly held
1 in 24
homes on record trades each year

Evans Head house and unit prices

The median Evans Head house sold for $1,200,000 across the last 24 months; constant-quality growth is +119.0% over 10 years and +48.4% over 5 years.

Property type
1Y
3Y
5Y
10Y
Houses
+10.6%
+25.4%
+39.8%
+149.4%
Units
+5.5%
+13.0%
+30.5%
+107.1%

Change in 12-month median sale prices to August 2026 vs the same window 1, 3, 5 and 10 years earlier · NSW Valuer General records

Median house price · 12 months to August 2026
Evans Head
$1,300,000
Richmond Valley LGA
$560,000
NSW
$1,100,011
Houses (quarterly median)
Units (yearly median)
333k648k963k1.28M1.59M20172019202120232025
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PeriodHouses (quarterly median)Units (yearly median)
Oct 2015$530,000
2016$530,000$375,000
Apr 2016$445,000
July 2016$556,250
Oct 2016$495,500
2017$544,000$350,000
Apr 2017$457,000
July 2017$512,000
Oct 2017$740,000
2018$570,000$416,250
Apr 2018$590,000
July 2018$667,500
Oct 2018$665,000
2019$565,000$399,000
Apr 2019$700,000
July 2019$530,000
Oct 2019$727,500
2020$727,500$539,250
Apr 2020$745,500
July 2020$675,000
Oct 2020$815,000
2021$950,000$615,000
Apr 2021$1,080,000
July 2021$989,000
Oct 2021$1,280,000
2022$1,265,000$645,000
Apr 2022$1,492,500
July 2022$1,175,000
Oct 2022$830,000
2023$1,385,000$702,500
Apr 2023$980,000
July 2023$790,000
Oct 2023$1,162,500
2024$1,287,500$717,000
Apr 2024$1,415,000
July 2024$1,185,000
Oct 2024$1,140,000
2025$896,500$750,000
Apr 2025$1,232,500
July 2025$1,302,500
Oct 2025$1,300,000
2026$1,517,500
Apr 2026$1,400,000
  • The headline growth figure uses a repeat-sales index of all dwellings (the same homes resold), which removes mix-of-what-sold noise; the tiles compare 12-month medians per dwelling type, so the two can differ, and differ widely where what sold changed.
  • Unit medians are yearly because strata volumes are low; treat them as indicative.
  • Quarters with fewer than three house sales are left off the chart; one sale does not make a market median.

Evans Head street by street

Across the 13 Evans Head streets that qualify for the ranking, five-year medians run from $980,000 on Woodburn Street to $1,945,000 on Boomerang Street.

Most expensive street (houses)

Boomerang Street

$1,945,000 five-year median · 6 sales

Most affordable street (houses)

Woodburn Street

$980,000 five-year median · 11 sales

House sales over the last five years, by price
104 sales
  • under $1.10M
  • $1.10M to $1.30M
  • $1.30M and above

Each dot is one house sale over the last five years, 104 in all, placed at the address that sold and shaded by what it fetched. Prices are as paid, with part shares and multi-property dealings left out.

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Street medians, five years of house sales
StreetMedianSales (5 years)
Boomerang Street$1.95M6
Ocean Drive$1.83M12
Pacific Crescent$1.60M8
Currajong Street$1.41M6
Park Street$1.29M8
Cedar Street$1.18M7
Bottlebrush Crescent$1.17M10
Beech Street$1.16M5
Heath Street$1.14M13
Cypress Street$1.10M9
Wirraway Avenue$1.10M5
Cassia Street$1.01M6
Woodburn Street$980k11
Evans Head streets with a published median · last 10 years of sales
Boomerang Street$1.95M6
Ocean Drive$1.38M222
Currajong Street$1.28M91
Park Street$1.27M10$775k5
Mangrove Street$1.16M6
Bottlebrush Crescent$1.14M144
Riverview Street$1.04M124
Pacific Crescent$1.00M18
Beech Street$963k12$469k10
Cypress Street$955k17$643k14
Wirraway Avenue$945k101
Fern Place$930k6$388k8
Heath Street$930k25$480k13
Rosewood Place$892k82
Ash Street$888k81
Banksia Street$878k8$650k17
Cassia Street$870k9$366k14
Cedar Street$800k13$466k14
Woodburn Street$791k19$425k41
Sunderland Street$783k8$628k14
Wattle Street$765k10
Carrabeen Street$615k6$380k8
Cashmore Street$573k102
Cashmore Lane$480k73
Booyong Street$380k5$769k12
  • A street needs at least 5 sales of a type in 10 years to get a median, so streets quieter than that are left out entirely.
  • Sales that moved several properties on one dealing are left out, because the record repeats that dealing's whole price against every property in it.
  • The highlight cards rank on house sales only, using each street's last-5-years median (at least 5 sales in that window), so unit-heavy streets are not mislabelled as cheap and the figures reflect prices a buyer could pay now; the table shows the full 10-year view.
  • A street is left out of the ranking when its five-year median sits below three-fifths of its own 10-year median, or far below the suburb's median (a bar set higher for streets with no older sales of their own to stand behind them). Those windows are usually land sold before the houses went up, or a part share of a home priced as though it were the whole. Those streets stay in the table with their 10-year median.
  • Prices are as-paid and not inflation-adjusted.

What buyers paid in Evans Head

Half of the 64 house sales in the last 24 months landed between $965,000 and $1,400,000.

0491317Median $1.20M$750k$1.25M$1.75M$2.25M
Middle 50% of sales: $965k – $1.40M
Median $1.20M
59 sales total
  • House sales only, 24 months. The unit median is quoted separately.
  • Chart covers $750,000 to $2,250,000: 5 of the 64 house sales fall outside it (the cheapest and dearest few) and are left out so a handful of outliers cannot distort the shape.

Rent in Evans Head by bedrooms

A 3-bedroom house rents for a median $630/wk.

Median weekly rent · houses
3-bedroom
$630/wk
4-bedroom
$720/wk
Median weekly rent · units
1-bedroom
$338/wk
2-bedroom
$470/wk
3-bedroom
$620/wk
  • From NSW rental bond lodgements for postcode 2473 (covers neighbouring suburbs too), 12 months to July 2026.
  • Bands with fewer than 10 bonds are hidden.
  • Biggest 12-month move: 3-bedroom units +24.0% year on year.

Who lives in Evans Head

Evans Head has a median age of 52 and a median household income of $1,086 a week, and 58.9% of homes are owner-occupied.

Population (Evans Head)
2,907
Median age (Evans Head)
52 years
Median household income (Evans Head)
$1,086/wk
People per square kilometre
131
Average taxable income (postcode, 2023)
$58,763
Average household size (SA2)
2.2
Median mortgage repayment (SA2)
$1,563/month
Australian-born (postcode)
83.2%
SEIFA advantage decile (Evans Head)
3 of 10
Rooftop solar installs, 12 months (postcode)
51
How Evans Head homes are held
Owned outright
41.6% · 519
Owned with a mortgage
17.2% · 215
Rented
37.4% · 467
Evans Head homes by bedroom count
1 bedroom or studio
7.0% · 86
2 bedrooms
27.5% · 339
3 bedrooms
40.7% · 501
4 bedrooms
20.0% · 247
5 or more
4.8% · 59
ABS SEIFA 2021 deciles · 10 of 10 = most advantaged nationally
Advantage and disadvantage (IRSAD)from income, education, occupation and housing
3 of 10
Relative disadvantage (IRSD)from low income, low education and unskilled occupations
3 of 10
Economic resources (IER)from household income, wealth and housing costs
2 of 10
Education and occupation (IEO)from qualifications and skilled work
3 of 10
  • Figures labelled Evans Head are for the suburb boundary itself (ABS 2021 Census). Anything labelled SA2 or postcode covers a wider area: SA2 "Evans Head" and postcode 2473 both extend beyond Evans Head.
  • SEIFA decile 1 is the lowest tenth of Australian areas on that index and 10 the highest. The four indices measure different things and often disagree, which is why all four are shown: a suburb can rank high on education and occupation while ranking mid on economic resources.

Bushfire, flood and planning in Evans Head

29.0% of Evans Head properties sit in a mapped bushfire-prone area; no flood mapping is available in our dataset for this suburb.

Properties in a mapped bushfire-prone area
29.0%
Flood mapping
No flood mapping available in our dataset
Heritage-flagged properties
24
Land zoning of properties
R1 General Residential (76%), RE1 Public Recreation (15%), E1 Local Centre (5%)
  • Bushfire-prone land is the NSW RFS certified map; being inside it triggers extra building requirements, not a prediction of fire.
  • Absence of flood mapping in our dataset is NOT evidence a property cannot flood: always order a council s10.7 certificate before buying.

Schools serving Evans Head

Most Evans Head homes fall in the Evans River Community School intake zone.

Schools located in Evans Head
Evans River Community SchoolGovernmentCombined955
Public primary catchment (100% of homes)
Evans River Community School
Public primary catchment (0% of homes)
Woodburn Public School
Public secondary catchment
Evans River Community School
Median school percentile nationally · ICSEA score
Evans Head · 1 school
27th · 955
Richmond Valley LGA
17th · 926
NSW North Coast
36th · 975
NSW
51st · 1009
Australia
51st · 1008
  • ICSEA is ACARA's socio-educational index (average 1000). It describes the family backgrounds of the students enrolled, NOT how well a school teaches: a lower ICSEA means a less advantaged intake, not a worse school.
  • Percentiles are ACARA's own national ranking, so the Australia bar is a published figure rather than our arithmetic. Each area shows the median of the mainstream schools sitting inside it; special schools are listed in the table but excluded from the medians.
  • Catchments are NSW Department of Education intake zones; always confirm an address with the school.

Crime and safety around Evans Head

Break-ins, car theft and malicious damage run at 2,061 per 100,000 residents in postcode 2473, 37.2% above the NSW rate of 1,502.

Recorded incidents, Richmond Valley LGA (12m)
2,467
of which assault (LGA)
328
of which theft (LGA)
600
Recorded incidents, postcode 2473 (12m)
207
Break-ins, car theft and malicious damage · incidents per 100,000 residents
Postcode 2473 (Evans Head + neighbours)
2,061
Richmond Valley LGA
2,949
NSW North Coast
1,959
NSW
1,502
  • Counts are BOCSAR recorded incidents for January 2025 to December 2025 at LGA and postcode grain: both cover several suburbs, so they include neighbours of Evans Head.
  • Rates divide incidents by resident population (ABS 2021 Census), so they are comparable between areas in a way raw counts are not. Every tier uses the same offences and the same 12 months for January 2025 to December 2025.
  • Two limits worth knowing: the rate counts residents only, so a postcode with a town centre, nightlife strip or shopping precinct carries crime generated by visitors against a small resident denominator and reads high; and the population is the 2021 Census, so a suburb that has grown fast since then reads high too.

Recent house sales in Evans Head

The most recent house sales on record in Evans Head are from 2026, 6 of them. Search a street to see what it has been fetching.

Park Street2026$2.00M
Currajong Street2026$1.57M
Park Street2026$1.26M
Cypress Street2026$1.10M
Woodburn Street2026$950k
Cassia Street2026$870k
Ocean Drive2025$2.40M
Boomerang Street2025$1.92M
Beech Street2025$1.72M
Ocean Drive2025$1.55M
Heath Street2025$1.40M
Heath Street2025$1.40M

One row per house sale on record for the last five years, by street and the year it sold. Sale prices are as paid. Part shares and multi-property dealings are excluded, and unit sales are not included here.

Suburbs near Evans Head

Evans Head's median house price of $1,200,000 is the 15th highest of the 64 NSW North Coast suburbs we cover.

All NSW North Coast suburb research

Evans Head: common questions

What is the median house price in Evans Head?
$1,200,000, based on 64 house sales over the 24 months to August 2026 (NSW Valuer General records).
What are the most and least expensive streets in Evans Head?
Of the 13 Evans Head streets that qualify for the five-year ranking, Boomerang Street has the highest house median at $1,945,000 (6 sales); Woodburn Street has the lowest at $980,000 (11 sales).
How much have Evans Head property prices grown?
A repeat-sales index of Evans Head dwellings has risen 119.0% over 10 years and moved +48.4% over 5 years.
What does it cost to rent in Evans Head?
The median 3-bedroom house in postcode 2473 rents for $630/wk, from 19 bonds lodged in the last 12 months.
Which public schools serve Evans Head?
Evans River Community School (primary, zoned for 100% of homes); Woodburn Public School (primary, zoned for 0% of homes); Evans River Community School (secondary).
Is Evans Head affected by bushfire or flood risk?
29.0% of properties sit in the NSW RFS bushfire-prone land map. No flood mapping is available in our dataset for this suburb; that is not evidence properties cannot flood; check a council s10.7 certificate.
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Data sources

This page summarises public government datasets for general information. It is not financial, legal or property advice, figures can contain source errors, and postcode or SA2 statistics cover a wider area than the suburb itself. Verify anything material independently before acting on it.