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Gateshead NSW 2290

Gateshead is located in the Newcastle and Lake Macquarie region of New South Wales, postcode 2290. It has 1,890 properties across 46 streets, mostly houses. Explore every street in Gateshead, its property history, homes for sale and rent, who lives there, and the local agents.

About Gateshead

Gateshead, NSW 2290, sits in the Newcastle and Lake Macquarie region and neighbours Bennetts Green, Charlestown, Mount Hutton and Redhead. Its 46 streets hold 1,890 properties, 1,467 of them houses and 423 units.

Census figures are for Charlestown - Dudley, an area that takes in the suburb. At the 2021 Census the area had 25,254 residents, a median age of 38 and an average household of 2.5 people. Median household income was $1,808 a week, the median mortgage repayment $2,000 a month and the median rent $390 a week. Of 9,642 dwellings, 7,728 were separate houses, 1,356 semi-detached and 548 flats; 3,339 were owned outright, 3,631 owned with a mortgage and 2,499 rented.

Updated October 2026

Who lives in Gateshead

  • 25,254Peoplelive in the area
  • 38Median ageyears
  • $1,808Median household incomea week
  • $390Median renta week

Homes by type

  • Houses7,728
  • Townhouses and semis1,356
  • Flats and apartments548

Household

  • Median mortgage repayment$2,000a month
  • Household size2.5people on average

How homes are held

Owned outright 3,339Owned with a mortgage 3,631Rented 2,499Other 173

Schools in Gateshead

  • St Paul's Primary School

    CatholicPrimary

  • Wiripaang Public School

    GovernmentPrimary

Streets in Gateshead

A

  1. Acacia Place6 properties
  2. Alder Crescent34 properties
  3. Arnhem Close22 properties
  4. Ash Place9 properties

B

  1. Bean Street59 properties
  2. Box Place11 properties
  3. Broom Place7 properties
  4. Bulls Garden Road23 properties

C

  1. Cadaga Road107 properties
  2. Carbeen Street31 properties
  3. Casey Street19 properties
  4. Cassia Crescent33 properties
  5. Church Street80 properties
  6. Coral Crescent71 properties

E

  1. Elm Place12 properties

F

  1. Felton Street11 properties
  2. Flame Street33 properties

G

  1. Goundry Street69 properties
  2. Gundy Street7 properties

H

  1. Heshbon Street61 properties
  2. Hickory Road72 properties
  3. Hughes Street8 properties

J

  1. Jamieson Street57 properties
  2. Jennings Street9 properties

M

  1. Macquarie Avenue22 properties
  2. Mahogany Crescent76 properties
  3. Mallee Street85 properties
  4. Metro Court80 properties

N

  1. Nevin Close28 properties

O

  1. O'Brien Street30 properties
  2. Oakdale Road152 properties
  3. Oregon Place6 properties
  4. Oxford Street82 properties

P

  1. Pacific Highway89 properties
  2. Paper Street45 properties
  3. Pine Place9 properties
  4. Plane Street30 properties
  5. Poplar Place11 properties

R

  1. Redwood Crescent42 properties
  2. Redwood Place9 properties

S

  1. Schroder Avenue60 properties
  2. Skyline Way28 properties
  3. Sydney Street54 properties

T

  1. Teak Street19 properties
  2. The Crescent50 properties

W

  1. Willow Road32 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.

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.