South Grafton
South Grafton is a suburb of Grafton, New South Wales, taking in most of the area of the city south of the Clarence River.
South Grafton is a suburb of Grafton, New South Wales, taking in most of the area of the city south of the Clarence River. At the time of the 2021 Australian census, South Grafton had a population of 6288 people, about one-third of Grafton's total population.
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Worth seeing in and around South Grafton
2 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Grafton Bridge
The Grafton Bridge is a heritage-listed bascule truss bridge that carries Bent Street and North Coast railway line across the Clarence River in Grafton, New South Wales, Australia. The bridge links the Grafton central business district with South Grafton, and was added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 2 April 1999.
1 km · bridge in Australia · Wikipedia - 02Balun Bindarray Bridge
The Balun Bindarray Bridge, formerly the New Grafton Bridge, is a bridge located 70 metres east of the Grafton Bridge and opened to traffic on 12 December 2019. The bridge carries two lanes of Shirley Adams Way and has been designed to be increased to four lanes when traffic levels require it.
1 km · Bridge in New South Wales, Australia · Wikipedia
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Getting to South Grafton
- Airports
- Gold Coast (OOL), 180 km · Brisbane (BNE), 259 km · Toowoomba Wellcamp (WTB), 264 km
- Stations
- Grafton railway station, New South Wales, 400 m
- Gold Coast → South Grafton196 km · quickest by road, 3h 48m · A$29–39
- Brisbane → South Grafton249 km · quickest by road, 4h 46m · A$38–50
- Toowoomba → South Grafton257 km · quickest by road, 6h 4m · A$42–55
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for South Grafton
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for South Grafton. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inThe nearest airports with commercial service are at Coffs Harbour, 87 km to the south, or Ballina, a 140-km trek to the north, and car hire is available from both (advance booking recommended).
From Wikivoyage: Grafton (New South Wales), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-05.
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If you know how people move in South Grafton – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to South Grafton
- Graftoncity in New South Wales, Australia2.9 km