Suburb profile
Macquarie Hills NSW 2285
Macquarie Hills is located in the Newcastle and Lake Macquarie region of New South Wales, postcode 2285. It has 1,371 properties across 48 streets, almost all houses. Explore every street in Macquarie Hills, its property history, homes for sale and rent, who lives there, and the local agents.
About Macquarie Hills
Macquarie Hills, NSW 2285, sits in the Newcastle and Lake Macquarie region and neighbours Boolaroo, Cardiff, Cardiff South and Lakelands. Its 48 streets hold 1,371 properties, 1,342 of them houses and 29 units.
Census figures are for the Glendale - Cardiff - Hillsborough area, which covers the whole suburb. The area has 24,588 residents, a median age of 38 and an average household of 2.6 people. Median household income is $1,818 a week, the median mortgage repayment $1,885 a month and the median rent $380 a week. Of 9,196 dwellings, 8,235 are separate houses, 668 semi-detached and 272 flats; 3,055 are owned outright, 3,814 owned with a mortgage and 2,131 rented.
Updated October 2026
Who lives in Macquarie Hills
- 24,588Peoplelive in the area
- 38Median ageyears
- $1,818Median household incomea week
- $380Median renta week
Homes by type
- Houses8,235
- Townhouses and semis668
- Flats and apartments272
- Other14
Household
- Median mortgage repayment$1,885a month
- Household size2.6people on average
How homes are held
Streets in Macquarie Hills
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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.