Suburb profile
Fosterton NSW 2420
Fosterton is located in the Hunter Valley region of New South Wales, postcode 2420. It has 87 properties across 5 streets, almost all houses. Explore every street in Fosterton, its property history, homes for sale and rent, who lives there, and the local agents.
About Fosterton
Fosterton, NSW 2420, sits in the Hunter Valley region and neighbours Alison, Bendolba, Dungog and Stroud Hill. Its 5 streets hold 87 properties, 82 of them houses and 5 units.
Census figures are for the Dungog area. It had 9,541 residents, a median age of 46 and an average household of 2.5 people. Median household income was $1,485 a week, the median mortgage repayment $1,820 a month and the median rent $300 a week. Of 3,578 dwellings, 3,469 were separate houses, 55 semi-detached, 8 flats and 32 other; 1,497 were owned outright, 1,393 owned with a mortgage and 536 rented.
Updated October 2026
Who lives in Fosterton
- 9,541Peoplelive in the area
- 46Median ageyears
- $1,485Median household incomea week
- $300Median renta week
Homes by type
- Houses3,469
- Townhouses and semis55
- Flats and apartments8
- Other32
Household
- Median mortgage repayment$1,820a month
- Household size2.5people on average
How homes are held
Streets in Fosterton
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.