Suburb profile
Pelaw Main NSW 2327
Pelaw Main is located in the Hunter Valley region of New South Wales, postcode 2327. It has 558 properties across 23 streets, mostly houses. Explore every street in Pelaw Main, its property history, homes for sale and rent, who lives there, and the local agents.
About Pelaw Main
Pelaw Main, NSW 2327, sits in the Hunter Valley and neighbours Abermain, Buchanan, Kurri Kurri and Stanford Merthyr. Its 23 streets hold 558 properties, 490 of them houses and 68 units.
Census figures are for the Kurri Kurri - Abermain area, which has 20,631 residents, a median age of 35 and an average household of 2.6 people. Median household income is $1,464 a week, the median mortgage repayment $1,603 a month and the median rent $345 a week. Of 7,521 dwellings, 6,838 are separate houses, 523 semi-detached, 144 flats and 5 other; 2,237 are owned outright, 2,946 owned with a mortgage and 2,160 rented.
Updated October 2026
Who lives in Pelaw Main
- 20,631Peoplelive in the area
- 35Median ageyears
- $1,464Median household incomea week
- $345Median renta week
Homes by type
- Houses6,838
- Townhouses and semis523
- Flats and apartments144
- Other5
Household
- Median mortgage repayment$1,603a month
- Household size2.6people on average
How homes are held
Schools in Pelaw Main
Pelaw Main Public School
GovernmentPrimary
No secondary schools in Pelaw Main.
Streets in Pelaw Main
- Aberdare Street55 properties
- Abermain Street58 properties
- Allandale Street16 properties
- Bellbird Street36 properties
- Boundary Street18 properties
- Ellalong Street24 properties
- Evatt Street46 properties
- Greta Street1 property
- Hebburn Street77 properties
- Hector Avenue14 properties
- Millfield Street36 properties
- Minmi Street9 properties
- Mulbring Street1 property
- Neath Street61 properties
- Pokolbin Street3 properties
- Railway Street1 property
- Richmond Street1 property
- Short Street8 properties
- Stanford Street47 properties
- Tarro Street1 property
- Thornton Street8 properties
- Tomalpin Street6 properties
- Wallsend Street31 properties
Neighbouring suburbs
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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.