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Cooks Hill NSW 2300

Cooks Hill is located in the Newcastle and Lake Macquarie region of New South Wales, postcode 2300. It has 2,873 properties across 24 streets. Explore every street in Cooks Hill, its property history, homes for sale and rent, who lives there, and the local agents.

About Cooks Hill

Cooks Hill, NSW 2300, sits in the Newcastle and Lake Macquarie region and neighbours Bar Beach, Newcastle, Newcastle West and The Hill. Its 24 streets hold 2,873 properties, 1,352 of them houses and 1,521 units.

Census figures are for the statistical area Newcastle - Cooks Hill, which covers 0.94 of the suburb. The area had 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 and 3,876 flats, with 31 other; 1,569 were owned outright, 1,188 owned with a mortgage and 3,273 rented.

Updated October 2026

Who lives in Cooks Hill

  • 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

Owned outright 1,569Owned with a mortgage 1,188Rented 3,273Other 99

Schools in Cooks Hill

  • Newcastle Grammar Park School Campus

    IndependentPrimary

Streets in Cooks Hill

  1. Auckland Street1 property
  2. Brooks Street164 properties
  3. Bruce Street215 properties
  4. Bull Street112 properties
  5. Charles Street5 properties
  6. Corlette Street252 properties
  7. Council Street30 properties
  8. Darby Street668 properties
  9. Dawson Street250 properties
  10. Gibson Street26 properties
  11. Glovers Lane6 properties
  12. Hannifords Lane3 properties
  13. Hooker Avenue6 properties
  14. Hunnifords Lane4 properties
  15. Laman Street109 properties
  16. Parkway Avenue286 properties
  17. Parry Street123 properties
  18. Queen Street22 properties
  19. Railway Street163 properties
  20. Rodgers Court25 properties
  21. Swan Street46 properties
  22. Tooke Street82 properties
  23. Union Street234 properties
  24. Young Street41 properties

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.