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What it costs to live in Byron, NSW
Byron council area, New South Wales. About 38,784 people lived here in 2025. Here's what rent, power, fuel, the pokies and crime look like, and how each one sits against the rest of New South Wales.
Rent
$950
A week. That's the median rent on new leases in the June quarter 2026.
Pokies losses
$538
Lost for every resident in a year. That's 48% of the NSW average.
See pokies losses in ByronElectricity
$2,604
A year on the default offer in the Essential Energy network area, for 4,600 kWh. That's the most a standing offer can cost. A typical plan here costs $2,396.
See electricity pricesUnleaded petrol
202c
A litre, on average, at 9 stations here over the year to September 2026. That's 10c more than the NSW average.
See when fuel is cheapestCrime police recorded
Violent crime, 2025–26
Police recorded 548 of these in Byron. That's 1,449 for every 100,000 people, or 1.2 times the NSW average. Five years before, in 2020–21, it was 1,285, so it has gone up 13%.
See each year
| Year | Recorded | Per 100,000 | NSW per 100,000 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025–26 | 548 | 1,449 | 1,183 |
| 2024–25 | 495 | 1,309 | 1,171 |
| 2023–24 | 493 | 1,303 | 1,156 |
| 2022–23 | 485 | 1,307 | 1,084 |
| 2021–22 | 441 | 1,208 | 981 |
| 2020–21 | 464 | 1,285 | 1,055 |
| 2019–20 | 461 | 1,294 | 1,009 |
| 2018–19 | 430 | 1,226 | 1,008 |
| 2017–18 | 518 | 1,499 | 999 |
| 2016–17 | 441 | 1,297 | 1,000 |
Property crime, 2025–26
Police recorded 844 of these in Byron. That's 2,231 for every 100,000 people, or 1.4 times the NSW average. Five years before, in 2020–21, it was 1,878, so it has gone up 19%.
See each year
| Year | Recorded | Per 100,000 | NSW per 100,000 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025–26 | 844 | 2,231 | 1,622 |
| 2024–25 | 858 | 2,268 | 1,589 |
| 2023–24 | 734 | 1,940 | 1,651 |
| 2022–23 | 609 | 1,641 | 1,572 |
| 2021–22 | 485 | 1,328 | 1,381 |
| 2020–21 | 678 | 1,878 | 1,544 |
| 2019–20 | 846 | 2,374 | 1,826 |
| 2018–19 | 856 | 2,440 | 2,022 |
| 2017–18 | 1,040 | 3,011 | 2,066 |
| 2016–17 | 1,148 | 3,375 | 2,184 |
This is crime that police recorded in the area over a year, July to June. Lots of crime is never reported, and a rise can mean police are looking harder, not just that more crime happened. Each state counts crime its own way, so only compare a council with its own state.
Suburbs in Byron
Who lives in each one, their homes and how they get around.
- Bangalow
- Billinudgel
- Binna Burra
- Booyong (part)
- Broken Head (part)
- Brunswick Heads
- Byron Bay
- Clunes (part)
- Coopers Shoot
- Coorabell
- Eureka
- Ewingsdale
- Federal
- Goonengerry
- Hayters Hill
- Huonbrook
- Koonyum Range
- Main Arm
- McLeods Shoot
- Middle Pocket
- Montecollum
- Mullumbimby
- Mullumbimby Creek
- Myocum
- Nashua
- New Brighton
- Nightcap (part)
- Ocean Shores
- Palmwoods
- Possum Creek
- Skinners Shoot
- South Golden Beach
- Suffolk Park
- Talofa
- The Pocket
- Tyagarah
- Upper Coopers Creek
- Upper Main Arm
- Upper Wilsons Creek
- Wanganui
- Wilsons Creek
- Wooyung (part)
- Yelgun
Look further
- Rents across Australia: what tenants really pay by suburb and postcode.
- Pokies losses by council: where the most is lost, in four states.
- Fuel prices: the price cycle and the cheapest day to fill up.
- Compare Byron with another area, side by side.
- Look up another area.
Sources: recorded crime, NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research. Population: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Regional population, CC BY 4.0. Pokies losses: the state's gambling regulator (see the pokies page for its credit). Rent: state rental bond data (see the rent pages). Electricity: Default Market Offer 2026–27: © Commonwealth of Australia (Australian Energy Regulator), CC BY 4.0; retailers' plans under the Consumer Data Right. Fuel: NSW Government FuelCheck, CC BY-SA, so the fuel figure can be reused under the same licence.