Eurobodalla, NSW
heritage-village · dairy · craft · mountain-backed
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Drive to the coast
6 min
By road
Nearest major hospital
53 min
By road
Airport access
57 min
By road
Schools access
Moderate
Average daytime temp
20.3°C
Rainfall
Moderate rainfall
Central Tilba is a tiny heritage village where the scale of the community matters as much as the historic streetscape. Only about 340 people live here, with a median age of 57, so local life is necessarily personal and small. Growth since 2016 is roughly 10% since 2016, but that still leaves the village far from anything resembling a service centre.
The coast is only about six minutes away, which gives residents easy access to beaches while keeping the home base distinctly rural and village-like. Local dairy and craft traditions are part of the town’s identity, and the National Trust streetscape gives the centre a character that is unusual for somewhere so small.
The practical side is more demanding: shopping is limited, the nearest major hospital is almost an hour away, secondary-school choice is modest and internet is fixed wireless rather than fixed line. Housing sits around an $877,000 median despite the limited services. Canberra is about 3 hours 20 minutes away and the airport roughly an hour.
Central Tilba suits people who value heritage, countryside and a very close-knit setting enough to accept that many errands, appointments and work opportunities will exist outside the village rather than inside it.
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It suits people seeking a genuinely small village, acreage buyers, creatives, food producers, retirees and remote workers who can tolerate limited services. Someone who values heritage, rural landscape and proximity to the coast may find it unusually compelling; someone wanting anonymity or urban convenience probably will not.
A major hospital is about 53 minutes away, shopping is limited and fixed wireless nbn may matter for bandwidth-sensitive work. The population is only a few hundred, so employment and services are narrow. Canberra is roughly 3 hours 23 minutes away.
Browse Central Tilba heritage shops
Sample Tilba Real Dairy cheese
Tour the National Trust village
Visit nearby Mystery Bay beaches
Median house price
$877,000
21% below the NSW median
Median attached price (townhouse/apartment)
$472,000
Median weekly rent (3-bed house)
$580
≈ $2,513/month
Houses here typically sell from $818,000 to $1,159,000 (25th–75th percentile).
Attached properties typically sell from $365,000 to $595,000.
Sourced from NSW Department of Communities and Justice · January - March 2026 quarter
Healthcare access
Moderate
Shopping & everyday services
Limited
One supermarket, 10–20km away
Internet connection
Fixed wireless
Job market by industry
Professional & office-based — 11.5%
Largest share of local jobs
Employment figures cover this town's wider statistical region, not the town alone — you'll see the same figures for Narooma, Batemans Bay, Bermagui, Eden, Merimbula, Mystery Bay, Thredbo, Tuross Head, Bega and Moruya.
The score ranks this region against other regions for the same occupation, not against other jobs here — a low score means it isn't a regional stronghold for that field, not that there are no vacancies. Counts online job advertisements, so trades and farm work hired by word of mouth are undercounted, and outside capital cities this is published at a regional level larger than one town.
Central Tilba (SAL 10876) · 2021 Census
Older than the country as a whole: 31% are 65 or over against 17.2% nationally, and 14.9% are children against 18.2%. Among households, couples without children outnumber couples with them (66% of families against 23%), and home ownership is high at 75.7% of dwellings against 65.9% nationally.
Population
342
Population growth
+10.4%
Narooma - Bermagui (SA2 101041027)
Median age
57 years
Labour force participation
50.3%
Growth is measured across the wider area named under the figure, which can be a different size to the town.
Share of total population in each band — rounding means these won't land on exactly 100%.
Couples are a share of total families; lone-person households are a share of total households — different bases, not one breakdown.
Median personal income
$682
Per week · ≈ $35,464/year
Median family income
$1,562
Per week
Median household income
$1,156
Per week
Personal is one person's income; family and household cover everyone living together — a single-income household will show a lower household figure than its highest earner's personal one. Personal income also covers every resident aged 15 and over, retirees included, so it reads low in a town with an older population even where household income is solid.
Owner-occupied
75.7%
Rented
15.3%
Born in Australia
70.8%
Born overseas
17.5%
Doesn't sum to 100% — people who didn't state a birthplace are excluded rather than redistributed.