Suburb profile
Bar Beach NSW 2300
Bar Beach is located in the Newcastle and Lake Macquarie region of New South Wales, postcode 2300. It has 807 properties across 12 streets. Explore every street in Bar Beach, its property history, homes for sale and rent, who lives there, and the local agents.
About Bar Beach
Bar Beach, NSW 2300, sits in the Newcastle and Lake Macquarie region and neighbours Cooks Hill, The Junction, Merewether and The Hill. Its 12 streets hold 807 properties, 353 of them houses and 454 units.
Census figures are for the area Newcastle - Cooks Hill. There were 12,805 residents, a median age of 38 and an average household of 1.9 people. Median household income was $1,929 a week, the median mortgage repayment $2,169 a month and the median rent $445 a week. Of 6,129 dwellings, 716 were separate houses, 1,474 semi-detached, 3,876 flats and 31 other; 1,569 were owned outright, 1,188 owned with a mortgage and 3,273 rented.
Updated October 2026
Who lives in Bar Beach
- 12,805Peoplelive in the area
- 38Median ageyears
- $1,929Median household incomea week
- $445Median renta week
Homes by type
- Houses716
- Townhouses and semis1,474
- Flats and apartments3,876
- Other31
Household
- Median mortgage repayment$2,169a month
- Household size1.9people on average
How homes are held
Streets in Bar Beach
- Bar Beach Avenue33 properties
- Brooks Street144 properties
- Darby Street79 properties
- Fenton Avenue34 properties
- Greenslope Street30 properties
- Kilgour Avenue7 properties
- Light Street155 properties
- Memorial Drive72 properties
- Nickson Street68 properties
- Parkway Avenue70 properties
- Tooke Street32 properties
- Wrightson Avenue83 properties
Neighbouring suburbs
Addresses and streets incorporate or were developed using G-NAF © Geoscape Australia, licensed by the Commonwealth of Australia under the Open Geo-coded National Address File (G-NAF) End User Licence Agreement.
Population and housing figures are drawn from the Australian Bureau of Statistics, Census of Population and Housing 2021, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International.
Area summaries are generated from the national address file and ABS Census data, and checked against those figures before publication.