Suburb profile
Cardiff Heights NSW 2285
Cardiff Heights is located in the Newcastle and Lake Macquarie region of New South Wales, postcode 2285. It has 692 properties across 21 streets, mostly houses. Explore every street in Cardiff Heights, its property history, homes for sale and rent, who lives there, and the local agents.
About Cardiff Heights
Cardiff Heights, NSW 2285, sits in the Newcastle and Lake Macquarie region and neighbours Cardiff, Garden Suburb, Glendale and New Lambton Heights. Its 21 streets hold 692 properties, 568 of them houses and 124 units.
Census figures are for the Glendale - Cardiff - Hillsborough area. It had 24,588 residents, a median age of 38 and an average household of 2.6 people. Median household income was $1,818 a week, the median mortgage repayment $1,885 a month and the median rent $380 a week. Of 9,196 dwellings, 8,235 were separate houses, 668 semi-detached, 272 flats and 14 other; 3,055 were owned outright, 3,814 owned with a mortgage and 2,131 rented.
Updated October 2026
Who lives in Cardiff Heights
- 24,588Peoplelive in the area
- 38Median ageyears
- $1,818Median household incomea week
- $380Median renta week
Homes by type
- Houses8,235
- Townhouses and semis668
- Flats and apartments272
- Other14
Household
- Median mortgage repayment$1,885a month
- Household size2.6people on average
How homes are held
Streets in Cardiff Heights
- Christina Street21 properties
- Cockburns Lane9 properties
- Currawong Road49 properties
- Daintree Close14 properties
- Davenport Street1 property
- Dewrang Street18 properties
- Harrisons Lane5 properties
- Highfield Terrace13 properties
- Kookaburra Close5 properties
- Kristen Close20 properties
- Luton Close6 properties
- Main Road252 properties
- Mams Grove9 properties
- Nadrian Close30 properties
- Palmer Parade13 properties
- Rainbow Close8 properties
- Reservoir Road64 properties
- Rowes Lane45 properties
- Serbin Close12 properties
- Tranquil Place9 properties
- Wallsend Road89 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.