Suburb profile
Garden Suburb NSW 2289
Garden Suburb is located in the Newcastle and Lake Macquarie region of New South Wales, postcode 2289. It has 743 properties across 34 streets, almost all houses. Explore every street in Garden Suburb, its property history, homes for sale and rent, who lives there, and the local agents.
About Garden Suburb
Garden Suburb, NSW 2289, sits in the Newcastle and Lake Macquarie region and neighbours Hillsborough, Cardiff, Kotara and Kotara South. Its 34 streets hold 743 properties, 723 of them houses and 20 units.
Census figures are for the Glendale - Cardiff - Hillsborough area, which 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 Garden Suburb
- 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
Schools in Garden Suburb
Garden Suburb Public School
GovernmentPrimary
No secondary schools in Garden Suburb.
Streets in Garden Suburb
- Barrett Avenue10 properties
- Beech Close9 properties
- Bray Crescent10 properties
- Cambridge Drive26 properties
- Cupania Crescent53 properties
- Cypress Way8 properties
- Denby Street7 properties
- Elkhorn Close7 properties
- Ewing Street24 properties
- Greenhood Way10 properties
- Gymea Drive31 properties
- Heather Crescent16 properties
- Irvine Street27 properties
- Laguna Close6 properties
- Marshall Street23 properties
- Myall Road11 properties
- Park Road27 properties
- Pepperbush Place8 properties
- Progress Place21 properties
- Prospect Road152 properties
- Reserved Road4 properties
- Robinia Grove52 properties
- Rose Close7 properties
- Rosewood Close9 properties
- Sandalwood Place16 properties
- Silverash Place11 properties
- Smokebush Place13 properties
- Stonecrop Place11 properties
- Sundew Close15 properties
- Toscana Close6 properties
- Via Rossi Close7 properties
- Whalan Street20 properties
- Whitegum Way15 properties
- Wimbledon Grove71 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.