Suburb profile

Hamilton South NSW 2303

Hamilton South is located in the Newcastle and Lake Macquarie region of New South Wales, postcode 2303. It has 3,517 properties across 38 streets. Explore every street in Hamilton South, its property history, homes for sale and rent, who lives there, and the local agents.

About Hamilton South

Hamilton South, NSW 2303, sits in the Newcastle and Lake Macquarie region and neighbours Adamstown, Broadmeadow, Cooks Hill and Hamilton East. Its 38 streets hold 3,517 properties, 1,351 of them houses and 2,166 units.

Census figures are for Hamilton - Broadmeadow, an area that takes in most of the suburb. At the 2021 Census it had 12,772 residents, a median age of 40 and an average household of 2.2 people. Median household income was $1,669 a week, the median mortgage repayment $2,115 a month and the median rent $380 a week. Of 5,263 dwellings, 3,258 were separate houses, 860 semi-detached and 1,087 flats, with 50 other; 1,590 were owned outright, 1,340 owned with a mortgage and 2,157 rented.

Updated October 2026

Who lives in Hamilton South

  • 12,772Peoplelive in the area
  • 40Median ageyears
  • $1,669Median household incomea week
  • $380Median renta week

Homes by type

  • Houses3,258
  • Townhouses and semis860
  • Flats and apartments1,087
  • Other50

Household

  • Median mortgage repayment$2,115a month
  • Household size2.2people on average

How homes are held

Owned outright 1,590Owned with a mortgage 1,340Rented 2,157Other 176

Streets in Hamilton South

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.