Suburb profile
Carey Bay NSW 2283
Carey Bay is located in the Newcastle and Lake Macquarie region of New South Wales, postcode 2283. It has 557 properties across 15 streets. Explore every street in Carey Bay, its property history, homes for sale and rent, who lives there, and the local agents.
About Carey Bay
Carey Bay, NSW 2283, sits in the Newcastle and Lake Macquarie region and neighbours Coal Point, Kilaben Bay, Lake Macquarie and Toronto. Its 15 streets hold 557 properties, 340 of them houses and 217 units.
Census figures are for the Toronto - Awaba area. It had 13,961 residents, a median age of 48 and an average household of 2.4 people. Median household income was $1,400 a week, the median mortgage repayment $1,733 a month and the median rent $340 a week. Of 5,510 dwellings, 4,633 were separate houses, 595 semi-detached and 244 flats; 31 were other types. Tenure split into 2,262 owned outright, 1,701 owned with a mortgage and 1,381 rented.
Updated October 2026
Who lives in Carey Bay
- 13,961Peoplelive in the area
- 48Median ageyears
- $1,400Median household incomea week
- $340Median renta week
Homes by type
- Houses4,633
- Townhouses and semis595
- Flats and apartments244
- Other31
Household
- Median mortgage repayment$1,733a month
- Household size2.4people on average
How homes are held
Streets in Carey Bay
- Ambrose Street129 properties
- Amelia Street55 properties
- Angela Close26 properties
- Brighton Avenue1 property
- Coal Point Road1 property
- Excelsior Parade128 properties
- Exeter Street7 properties
- Hampton Street6 properties
- Jabiru Street20 properties
- Kilaben Road2 properties
- Laycock Street104 properties
- Nigel Place13 properties
- The Quarterdeck34 properties
- Wyera Crescent25 properties
- Yaringa Lane6 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.