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What it costs to live in Port Stephens, NSW
Port Stephens council area, New South Wales. About 80,070 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
$650
A week. That's the median rent on new leases in the June quarter 2026.
Pokies losses
$961
Lost for every resident in a year. That's 86% of the NSW average.
See pokies losses in Port StephensElectricity
$1,899
A year on the default offer in the Ausgrid network area, which covers most of Port Stephens, for 3,900 kWh. That's the most a standing offer can cost. A typical plan here costs $1,709.
See electricity pricesUnleaded petrol
185c
A litre, on average, at 23 stations here over the year to September 2026. That's 7c less than the NSW average.
See when fuel is cheapestCrime police recorded
Violent crime, 2025–26
Police recorded 1,118 of these in Port Stephens. That's 1,417 for every 100,000 people, or 1.2 times the NSW average. Five years before, in 2020–21, it was 1,216, so it has gone up 17%.
See each year
| Year | Recorded | Per 100,000 | NSW per 100,000 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025–26 | 1,118 | 1,417 | 1,183 |
| 2024–25 | 1,104 | 1,399 | 1,171 |
| 2023–24 | 1,135 | 1,438 | 1,156 |
| 2022–23 | 994 | 1,279 | 1,084 |
| 2021–22 | 858 | 1,119 | 981 |
| 2020–21 | 916 | 1,216 | 1,055 |
| 2019–20 | 876 | 1,179 | 1,009 |
| 2018–19 | 857 | 1,166 | 1,008 |
| 2017–18 | 781 | 1,075 | 999 |
| 2016–17 | 802 | 1,117 | 1,000 |
Property crime, 2025–26
Police recorded 1,162 of these in Port Stephens. That's 1,473 for every 100,000 people, or about the NSW average. Five years before, in 2020–21, it was 1,454, so it's about the same.
See each year
| Year | Recorded | Per 100,000 | NSW per 100,000 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025–26 | 1,162 | 1,473 | 1,622 |
| 2024–25 | 1,048 | 1,328 | 1,589 |
| 2023–24 | 1,135 | 1,438 | 1,651 |
| 2022–23 | 1,145 | 1,473 | 1,572 |
| 2021–22 | 916 | 1,195 | 1,381 |
| 2020–21 | 1,095 | 1,454 | 1,544 |
| 2019–20 | 1,215 | 1,635 | 1,826 |
| 2018–19 | 1,381 | 1,880 | 2,022 |
| 2017–18 | 1,355 | 1,866 | 2,066 |
| 2016–17 | 1,479 | 2,061 | 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 Stephens
Who lives in each one, their homes and how they get around.
- Anna Bay
- Balickera
- Boat Harbour (Port Stephens - NSW)
- Bobs Farm
- Brandy Hill
- Butterwick
- Campvale
- Corlette
- Duns Creek
- Eagleton
- East Seaham
- Fern Bay
- Ferodale
- Fingal Bay
- Fishermans Bay
- Fullerton Cove
- Glen Oak
- Heatherbrae
- Hinton
- Karuah (part)
- Lemon Tree Passage
- Mallabula
- Medowie
- Nelson Bay
- Nelsons Plains
- One Mile
- Osterley
- Oyster Cove
- Port Stephens
- Raymond Terrace
- Salamander Bay
- Salt Ash
- Seaham
- Shoal Bay
- Soldiers Point
- Swan Bay (Port Stephens - NSW)
- Tanilba Bay
- Taylors Beach
- Tilligerry Creek
- Tomago
- Twelve Mile Creek
- Wallalong
- Williamtown
- Woodville
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 Stephens 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.