Suburb profile
Glendale NSW 2285
Glendale is located in the Newcastle and Lake Macquarie region of New South Wales, postcode 2285. It has 1,899 properties across 53 streets, mostly houses. Explore every street in Glendale, its property history, homes for sale and rent, who lives there, and the local agents.
About Glendale
Glendale, NSW 2285, sits in the Newcastle and Lake Macquarie region and neighbours Cardiff, Cardiff Heights, Elermore Vale and Argenton. Its 53 streets hold 1,899 properties, 1,471 of them houses and 428 units.
Census figures are for the Glendale - Cardiff - Hillsborough area. It 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 Glendale
- 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 Glendale
Glendale East Public School
GovernmentPrimary
Holy Cross Primary School
CatholicPrimary
Newcastle Waldorf School
IndependentPrimary and secondary
Glendale Technology High School
GovernmentSecondary
Newcastle Waldorf School
IndependentPrimary and secondary
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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.