Suburb profile
Killingworth NSW 2278
Killingworth is located in the Newcastle and Lake Macquarie region of New South Wales, postcode 2278. It has 369 properties across 16 streets, almost all houses. Explore every street in Killingworth, its property history, homes for sale and rent, who lives there, and the local agents.
About Killingworth
Killingworth, NSW 2278, sits in the Newcastle and Lake Macquarie region and neighbours Barnsley, Freemans Waterhole, Holmesville and Mount Vincent. Its 16 streets hold 369 properties, all of them houses.
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 Killingworth
- 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
Streets in Killingworth
- Archery Road8 properties
- Brooks Street16 properties
- Geordie Street35 properties
- Holmes Lane1 property
- Killingworth Road23 properties
- Mount Sugarloaf Road1 property
- Park Street27 properties
- Sackville Street39 properties
- Stephenson Street27 properties
- The Boulevarde26 properties
- The Broadway57 properties
- The Trongate26 properties
- Throckmorton Street44 properties
- Wakefield Road3 properties
- Wallace Street25 properties
- Westcroft Street11 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.
Area summaries are generated from the national address file and ABS Census data, and checked against those figures before publication.