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What it costs to live in Central Coast, NSW

Central Coast council area, New South Wales. About 357,816 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

$1,001

Lost for every resident in a year. That's 89% of the NSW average.

See pokies losses in Central Coast

Electricity

$1,899

A year on the default offer in the Ausgrid network area, which covers most of Central Coast, for 3,900 kWh. That's the most a standing offer can cost. A typical plan here costs $1,709.

See electricity prices

Unleaded petrol

189c

A litre, on average, at 76 stations here over the year to September 2026. That's 3c less than the NSW average.

See when fuel is cheapest

Crime police recorded

Violent crime, 2025–26

Central Coast1,359
NSW average1,183

Police recorded 4,821 of these in Central Coast. That's 1,359 for every 100,000 people, or 1.1 times the NSW average. Five years before, in 2020–21, it was 1,153, so it has gone up 18%.

See each year
YearRecordedPer 100,000NSW per 100,000
2025–264,8211,3591,183
2024–255,0991,4371,171
2023–244,6061,2981,156
2022–234,3891,2471,084
2021–224,0491,160981
2020–214,0171,1531,055
2019–203,9001,1241,009
2018–193,9021,1351,008
2017–184,1401,212999
2016–173,9771,1721,000

Property crime, 2025–26

Central Coast1,529
NSW average1,622

Police recorded 5,424 of these in Central Coast. That's 1,529 for every 100,000 people, or about the NSW average. Five years before, in 2020–21, it was 1,456, so it's about the same.

See each year
YearRecordedPer 100,000NSW per 100,000
2025–265,4241,5291,622
2024–255,1371,4481,589
2023–245,2631,4831,651
2022–234,7511,3501,572
2021–224,1101,1771,381
2020–215,0741,4561,544
2019–206,1901,7841,826
2018–196,6581,9362,022
2017–186,3301,8532,066
2016–177,4822,2052,184

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 Central Coast

Who lives in each one, their homes and how they get around.

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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.