Suburb profile
Belmont NSW 2280
Belmont is located in the Newcastle and Lake Macquarie region of New South Wales, postcode 2280. It has 5,121 properties across 99 streets. Explore every street in Belmont, its property history, homes for sale and rent, who lives there, and the local agents.
About Belmont
Belmont, NSW 2280, sits in the Newcastle and Lake Macquarie region and neighbours Lake Macquarie, Redhead, Belmont North and Belmont South. Its 99 streets hold 5,121 properties, 2,945 of them houses and 2,176 units.
Census figures are for the area Belmont - Bennetts Green. It had 17,864 residents, a median age of 44 and an average household of 2.5 people. Median household income was $1,538 a week, the median mortgage repayment $2,009 a month and the median rent $360 a week. Of 6,939 dwellings, 5,577 were separate houses, 761 semi-detached, 506 flats and 78 other; 2,703 were owned outright, 2,447 owned with a mortgage and 1,543 rented.
Updated October 2026
Who lives in Belmont
- 17,864Peoplelive in the area
- 44Median ageyears
- $1,538Median household incomea week
- $360Median renta week
Homes by type
- Houses5,577
- Townhouses and semis761
- Flats and apartments506
- Other78
Household
- Median mortgage repayment$2,009a month
- Household size2.5people on average
How homes are held
Schools in Belmont
Belmont North Public School
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Belmont Public School
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Floraville Public School
GovernmentPrimary
St Francis Xavier's Primary School
CatholicPrimary
Belmont High School
GovernmentSecondary
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Neighbouring suburbs
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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.
School details © Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA), from the Australian Schools List, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International and modified. ACARA does not endorse Listd.
Area summaries are generated from the national address file and ABS Census data, and checked against those figures before publication.