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Housing
crescent head
New South Wales · Census 2021
$1.04M
-9.5% yr · median house · Dec 2025
Crescent Head is a leafy residential suburb of Kempsey.
Median house price
People
Population
1,633
Median age
50 yrs
Income / person / wk
$674
Household income / wk
$1,317
Housing
Median rent / wk
$320
Mortgage / month
$1,591
Culture & community
- Dominant religion
- No religion · 47%
- Top language at home
- Portuguese · 0%
- No religion
- 47%
- Born overseas
- 12%
- English only at home
- 96%
Local amenities
Amenity score
14/100
Schools
1
Supermarkets
1
Pubs & bars
0
Parks
2
Libraries
0
GP clinics
1
Pharmacies
1
Hospitals
0
Nearest supermarket
5.7 km
Nearest train
17.7 km
Nearest hospital
19.1 km
Distance to coast
3.7 km
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Satellite
Amenity counts via © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL) & Geoscience Australia HealthDirect (CC BY 4.0). Distance to coast derived from ABS state boundaries (CC BY 4.0).
Schools by sector
Government
1
Catholic
0
Independent
0
Primary
1
Secondary
0
Nearest secondary
14.7 km
School sector & type: ACARA (Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority), School Location dataset.
Local council
- Council (LGA)
- Kempsey
- Council population
- 30,707
- Council area
- 3,376 km²
- Density
- 9/km²
- Federal grants
- $8.69M/yr (2025-26)
- Grants per resident
- $283/yr
Council boundary: ABS ASGS LGA 2024. Federal grants: Financial Assistance Grants, Dept of Infrastructure. All CC BY 4.0.
Representation
- Federal division
- Cowper
- Federal MP
- Pat Conaghan (NP)
- Two-party-preferred
- Coalition 59% 2PP
- State electorate
- Oxley
- State MP
- Michael Kemp (NAT)
Similar suburbs
Closest demographic & amenity profile, nationally.