Suburb profile
Little Pelican NSW 2281
Little Pelican is located in the Newcastle and Lake Macquarie region of New South Wales, postcode 2281. It has 18 properties across 3 streets, almost all houses. Explore every street in Little Pelican, its property history, homes for sale and rent, who lives there, and the local agents.
About Little Pelican
Little Pelican, NSW 2281, sits in the Newcastle and Lake Macquarie region and neighbours Blacksmiths, Swansea and Pelican. Its 3 streets hold 18 properties, all of them houses.
Census figures are for the Belmont South - Blacksmiths area, which had 5,680 residents, a median age of 49 and an average household of 2.3 people. Median household income was $1,240 a week, the median mortgage repayment $1,800 a month and the median rent $330 a week. Of 2,377 dwellings, 1,828 were separate houses, 230 semi-detached, 280 flats and 30 other; 958 were owned outright, 638 owned with a mortgage and 727 rented.
Updated October 2026
Who lives in Little Pelican
- 5,680Peoplelive in the area
- 49Median ageyears
- $1,240Median household incomea week
- $330Median renta week
Homes by type
- Houses1,828
- Townhouses and semis230
- Flats and apartments280
- Other30
Household
- Median mortgage repayment$1,800a month
- Household size2.3people on average
How homes are held
Streets in Little Pelican
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.