diff --git a/src/init.cpp b/src/init.cpp
index 864c2e278b1..2e35d2e463e 100644
--- a/src/init.cpp
+++ b/src/init.cpp
@@ -509,7 +509,7 @@ void SetupServerArgs(ArgsManager& argsman)
     argsman.AddArg("-networkactive", "Enable all P2P network activity (default: 1). Can be changed by the setnetworkactive RPC command", ArgsManager::ALLOW_ANY, OptionsCategory::CONNECTION);
     argsman.AddArg("-timeout=<n>", strprintf("Specify socket connection timeout in milliseconds. If an initial attempt to connect is unsuccessful after this amount of time, drop it (minimum: 1, default: %d)", DEFAULT_CONNECT_TIMEOUT), ArgsManager::ALLOW_ANY, OptionsCategory::CONNECTION);
     argsman.AddArg("-peertimeout=<n>", strprintf("Specify a p2p connection timeout delay in seconds. After connecting to a peer, wait this amount of time before considering disconnection based on inactivity (minimum: 1, default: %d)", DEFAULT_PEER_CONNECT_TIMEOUT), ArgsManager::ALLOW_ANY | ArgsManager::DEBUG_ONLY, OptionsCategory::CONNECTION);
-    argsman.AddArg("-torcontrol=<ip>:<port>", strprintf("Tor control port to use if onion listening enabled (default: %s)", DEFAULT_TOR_CONTROL), ArgsManager::ALLOW_ANY, OptionsCategory::CONNECTION);
+    argsman.AddArg("-torcontrol=<ip>:<port>", strprintf("Tor control host and port to use if onion listening enabled (default: %s). If no port is specified, the default port of %i will be used.", DEFAULT_TOR_CONTROL, DEFAULT_TOR_CONTROL_PORT), ArgsManager::ALLOW_ANY, OptionsCategory::CONNECTION);
     argsman.AddArg("-torpassword=<pass>", "Tor control port password (default: empty)", ArgsManager::ALLOW_ANY | ArgsManager::SENSITIVE, OptionsCategory::CONNECTION);
 #ifdef USE_UPNP
 #if USE_UPNP
diff --git a/src/torcontrol.cpp b/src/torcontrol.cpp
index 9cf976a7006..4c99aa57469 100644
--- a/src/torcontrol.cpp
+++ b/src/torcontrol.cpp
@@ -42,8 +42,8 @@
 #include <event2/thread.h>
 #include <event2/util.h>
 
-/** Default control port */
-const std::string DEFAULT_TOR_CONTROL = "127.0.0.1:9051";
+/** Default control ip and port */
+const std::string DEFAULT_TOR_CONTROL = "127.0.0.1:" + ToString(DEFAULT_TOR_CONTROL_PORT);
 /** Tor cookie size (from control-spec.txt) */
 static const int TOR_COOKIE_SIZE = 32;
 /** Size of client/server nonce for SAFECOOKIE */
@@ -144,7 +144,7 @@ bool TorControlConnection::Connect(const std::string& tor_control_center, const
         Disconnect();
     }
 
-    const std::optional<CService> control_service{Lookup(tor_control_center, 9051, fNameLookup)};
+    const std::optional<CService> control_service{Lookup(tor_control_center, DEFAULT_TOR_CONTROL_PORT, fNameLookup)};
     if (!control_service.has_value()) {
         LogPrintf("tor: Failed to look up control center %s\n", tor_control_center);
         return false;
diff --git a/src/torcontrol.h b/src/torcontrol.h
index 1a9065b01a9..4a0eef223e4 100644
--- a/src/torcontrol.h
+++ b/src/torcontrol.h
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
 #include <string>
 #include <vector>
 
+constexpr int DEFAULT_TOR_CONTROL_PORT = 9051;
 extern const std::string DEFAULT_TOR_CONTROL;
 static const bool DEFAULT_LISTEN_ONION = true;