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What it costs to live in Port Macquarie-Hastings, NSW
Port Macquarie-Hastings council area, New South Wales. About 92,432 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
$600
A week. That's the median rent on new leases in the June quarter 2026.
Pokies losses
$944
Lost for every resident in a year. That's 84% of the NSW average.
See pokies losses in Port Macquarie-HastingsElectricity
$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
190c
A litre, on average, at 27 stations here over the year to September 2026. That's 2c less than the NSW average.
See when fuel is cheapestCrime police recorded
Violent crime, 2025–26
Police recorded 1,206 of these in Port Macquarie-Hastings. That's 1,328 for every 100,000 people, or 1.1 times the NSW average. Five years before, in 2020–21, it was 1,117, so it has gone up 19%.
See each year
| Year | Recorded | Per 100,000 | NSW per 100,000 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025–26 | 1,206 | 1,328 | 1,183 |
| 2024–25 | 1,143 | 1,258 | 1,171 |
| 2023–24 | 1,192 | 1,312 | 1,156 |
| 2022–23 | 1,005 | 1,122 | 1,084 |
| 2021–22 | 993 | 1,125 | 981 |
| 2020–21 | 968 | 1,117 | 1,055 |
| 2019–20 | 781 | 915 | 1,009 |
| 2018–19 | 735 | 870 | 1,008 |
| 2017–18 | 723 | 870 | 999 |
| 2016–17 | 716 | 879 | 1,000 |
Property crime, 2025–26
Police recorded 1,569 of these in Port Macquarie-Hastings. That's 1,727 for every 100,000 people, or about the NSW average. Five years before, in 2020–21, it was 1,332, so it has gone up 30%.
See each year
| Year | Recorded | Per 100,000 | NSW per 100,000 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025–26 | 1,569 | 1,727 | 1,622 |
| 2024–25 | 1,454 | 1,601 | 1,589 |
| 2023–24 | 1,478 | 1,627 | 1,651 |
| 2022–23 | 1,127 | 1,258 | 1,572 |
| 2021–22 | 1,194 | 1,352 | 1,381 |
| 2020–21 | 1,154 | 1,332 | 1,544 |
| 2019–20 | 1,382 | 1,620 | 1,826 |
| 2018–19 | 1,439 | 1,703 | 2,022 |
| 2017–18 | 1,518 | 1,828 | 2,066 |
| 2016–17 | 1,421 | 1,745 | 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 Port Macquarie-Hastings
Who lives in each one, their homes and how they get around.
- Bagnoo
- Bago
- Ballengarra
- Banda Banda
- Batar Creek
- Beechwood
- Bellangry
- Birdwood
- Black Creek (Port Macquarie-Hastings - NSW)
- Blackmans Point
- Bobs Creek
- Bonny Hills
- Boorganna
- Bril Bril
- Brombin
- Byabarra
- Cairncross
- Camden Head
- Comboyne
- Cooperabung
- Crosslands
- Deauville
- Debenham
- Diamond Head
- Doyles River
- Dunbogan
- Ellenborough
- Fernbank Creek
- Forbes River
- Frazers Creek
- Gearys Flat
- Grants Beach
- Gum Scrub
- Hacks Ferry
- Hartys Plains
- Herons Creek
- Hollisdale
- Huntingdon
- Hyndmans Creek
- Innes View
- Jolly Nose
- Kendall
- Kerewong
- Kew
- Kindee
- King Creek
- Kippara
- Lake Cathie
- Lake Innes
- Lakewood
- Laurieton
- Limeburners Creek (Port Macquarie-Hastings - NSW)
- Logans Crossing
- Long Flat
- Lorne
- Lower Pappinbarra
- Marlo Merrican
- Middle Brother
- Mortons Creek
- Mount Seaview
- North Brother
- North Haven
- North Shore
- Pappinbarra
- Pembrooke
- Pipeclay
- Port Macquarie
- Rawdon Island
- Redbank
- Riverside
- Rollands Plains
- Rosewood (Port Macquarie-Hastings - NSW)
- Rossglen
- Sancrox
- Swans Crossing
- Telegraph Point
- The Hatch
- Thrumster
- Toms Creek
- Upper Pappinbarra
- Upper Rollands Plains
- Upsalls Creek
- Wauchope
- Werrikimbe
- West Haven
- Yarras (Port Macquarie-Hastings - NSW)
- Yippin Creek
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 Port Macquarie-Hastings 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.