Suburb profile

Holmesville NSW 2286

Holmesville is located in the Newcastle and Lake Macquarie region of New South Wales, postcode 2286. It has 605 properties across 21 streets, almost all houses. Explore every street in Holmesville, its property history, homes for sale and rent, who lives there, and the local agents.

About Holmesville

Holmesville, NSW 2286, sits in the Newcastle and Lake Macquarie region and neighbours Barnsley, Cameron Park, Edgeworth and Killingworth. Its 21 streets hold 605 properties, 600 of them houses and 5 units.

Census figures are for the West Wallsend - Barnsley - Killingworth area, which had 7,254 residents, a median age of 38 and an average household of 2.7 people. Median household income was $1,769 a week, the median mortgage repayment $1,798 a month and the median rent $390 a week. Of 2,579 dwellings, 2,516 were separate houses, 35 semi-detached, 11 flats and 7 other; 822 were owned outright, 1,254 owned with a mortgage and 384 rented.

Updated October 2026

Who lives in Holmesville

  • 7,254Peoplelive in the area
  • 38Median ageyears
  • $1,769Median household incomea week
  • $390Median renta week

Homes by type

  • Houses2,516
  • Townhouses and semis35
  • Flats and apartments11
  • Other7

Household

  • Median mortgage repayment$1,798a month
  • Household size2.7people on average

How homes are held

Owned outright 822Owned with a mortgage 1,254Rented 384Other 119

Streets in Holmesville

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.