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Kotara NSW 2289

Kotara is located in the Newcastle and Lake Macquarie region of New South Wales, postcode 2289. It has 2,394 properties across 43 streets, mostly houses. Explore every street in Kotara, its property history, homes for sale and rent, who lives there, and the local agents.

About Kotara

Kotara, NSW 2289, sits in the Newcastle and Lake Macquarie region and neighbours Adamstown, Garden Suburb, Kotara South and New Lambton Heights. Its 43 streets hold 2,394 properties, 1,624 of them houses and 770 units.

Census figures are for Adamstown - Kotara, an area that covers part of the suburb. It had 16,600 residents, a median age of 37 and an average household of 2.6 people. Median household income was $2,071 a week, the median mortgage repayment $2,167 a month and the median rent $410 a week. Of 6,221 dwellings, 5,103 were separate houses, 683 semi-detached and 422 flats, with 11 other; 2,156 were owned outright, 2,276 owned with a mortgage and 1,682 rented.

Updated October 2026

Who lives in Kotara

  • 16,600Peoplelive in the area
  • 37Median ageyears
  • $2,071Median household incomea week
  • $410Median renta week

Homes by type

  • Houses5,103
  • Townhouses and semis683
  • Flats and apartments422
  • Other11

Household

  • Median mortgage repayment$2,167a month
  • Household size2.6people on average

How homes are held

Owned outright 2,156Owned with a mortgage 2,276Rented 1,682Other 107

Schools in Kotara

  • Kotara South Public School

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Streets in Kotara

B

  1. Bellett Street20 properties
  2. Bender Parade13 properties
  3. Boundary Street19 properties
  4. Bradford Close36 properties
  5. Bryson Avenue41 properties

C

  1. Casey Avenue11 properties
  2. Charlestown Road69 properties
  3. Clayton Crescent25 properties

E

  1. Elvidge Crescent14 properties

G

  1. Grayson Avenue139 properties
  2. Gregory Parade86 properties
  3. Grinsell Street130 properties

H

  1. Howell Street18 properties

J

  1. Jacaranda Close9 properties
  2. Joanne Street31 properties
  3. Johnson Street16 properties
  4. Joslin Street154 properties
  5. Judith Avenue27 properties

K

  1. Kimbarra Close69 properties
  2. Kotara Place36 properties
  3. Kullaiba Road26 properties
  4. Kuranda Crescent55 properties

L

  1. Lugar Street8 properties
  2. Lynette Place9 properties

M

  1. March Street35 properties
  2. Marshall Street40 properties
  3. Mcdougall Street20 properties
  4. Meredith Street17 properties
  5. Moruya Parade49 properties
  6. Myall Road4 properties

N

  1. Nereida Close31 properties
  2. Nesbitt Close21 properties
  3. Northcott Drive67 properties

P

  1. Park Avenue709 properties
  2. Peatties Road3 properties
  3. Penelope Place6 properties

R

  1. Rae Crescent75 properties
  2. Rodway Parade45 properties

S

  1. Searle Street3 properties
  2. Seaview Street12 properties
  3. Springfield Avenue139 properties

V

  1. Vista Parade40 properties

W

  1. Wallace Street17 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.