Suburb profile

Mayfield West NSW 2304

Mayfield West is located in the Newcastle and Lake Macquarie region of New South Wales, postcode 2304. It has 1,805 properties across 37 streets. Explore every street in Mayfield West, its property history, homes for sale and rent, who lives there, and the local agents.

About Mayfield West

Mayfield West, NSW 2304, sits in the Newcastle and Lake Macquarie region and neighbours Waratah, Waratah West, Kooragang and Mayfield North. Its 37 streets hold 1,805 properties, 938 of them houses and 867 units.

Census figures are for the Mayfield - Warabrook area, which had 15,526 residents, a median age of 37 and an average household of 2.2 people. Median household income was $1,604 a week, the median mortgage repayment $1,883 a month and the median rent $380 a week. Of 6,360 dwellings, 4,797 were separate houses, 1,118 semi-detached and 368 flats; 56 were other types. Tenure split into 1,564 owned outright, 2,123 owned with a mortgage and 2,501 rented.

Updated October 2026

Who lives in Mayfield West

  • 15,526Peoplelive in the area
  • 37Median ageyears
  • $1,604Median household incomea week
  • $380Median renta week

Homes by type

  • Houses4,797
  • Townhouses and semis1,118
  • Flats and apartments368
  • Other56

Household

  • Median mortgage repayment$1,883a month
  • Household size2.2people on average

How homes are held

Owned outright 1,564Owned with a mortgage 2,123Rented 2,501Other 172

Streets in Mayfield West

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.