Suburb profile
Fishing Point NSW 2283
Fishing Point is located in the Newcastle and Lake Macquarie region of New South Wales, postcode 2283. It has 546 properties across 15 streets, almost all houses. Explore every street in Fishing Point, its property history, homes for sale and rent, who lives there, and the local agents.
About Fishing Point
Fishing Point, NSW 2283, sits in the Newcastle and Lake Macquarie region and neighbours Balmoral, Lake Macquarie and Rathmines. Its 15 streets hold 546 properties, 534 of them houses and 12 units.
Census figures are for the Wangi Wangi - Rathmines area, which covers the whole suburb. It has 9,467 residents, a median age of 48 and an average household of 2.5 people. Median household income is $1,553 a week, the median mortgage repayment $1,888 a month and the median rent $370 a week. Of 3,638 dwellings, 3,393 are separate houses, 155 semi-detached, 67 flats and 20 other; 1,600 are owned outright, 1,348 owned with a mortgage and 599 rented.
Updated October 2026
Who lives in Fishing Point
- 9,467Peoplelive in the area
- 48Median ageyears
- $1,553Median household incomea week
- $370Median renta week
Homes by type
- Houses3,393
- Townhouses and semis155
- Flats and apartments67
- Other20
Household
- Median mortgage repayment$1,888a month
- Household size2.5people on average
How homes are held
Streets in Fishing Point
- Alkrington Avenue76 properties
- Balmoral Place9 properties
- Cabarita Lane1 property
- Carlisle Row44 properties
- Datchet Street4 properties
- Didsbury Street3 properties
- Ealing Crescent17 properties
- Fallside Street4 properties
- Fishing Point Road159 properties
- Glasgow Street5 properties
- Hereford Rise9 properties
- Northminster Way1 property
- Sealand Road148 properties
- Somersham Avenue3 properties
- Sunlight Parade63 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.