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Rathmines NSW 2283

Rathmines is located in the Newcastle and Lake Macquarie region of New South Wales, postcode 2283. It has 1,147 properties across 34 streets, mostly houses. Explore every street in Rathmines, its property history, homes for sale and rent, who lives there, and the local agents.

About Rathmines

Rathmines, NSW 2283, sits in the Newcastle and Lake Macquarie region and neighbours Awaba, Balmoral, Fishing Point and Lake Macquarie. Its 34 streets hold 1,147 properties, 996 of them houses and 151 units.

Census figures are for the Wangi Wangi - Rathmines area. It had 9,467 residents, a median age of 48 and an average household of 2.5 people. Median household income was $1,553 a week, the median mortgage repayment $1,888 a month and the median rent $370 a week. Of 3,638 dwellings, 3,393 were separate houses, 155 semi-detached, 67 flats and 20 other; 1,600 were owned outright, 1,348 owned with a mortgage and 599 rented.

Updated October 2026

Who lives in Rathmines

  • 9,467Peoplelive in the area
  • 48Median ageyears
  • $1,553Median household incomea week
  • $370Median renta week

Homes by type

  • Houses3,393
  • Townhouses and semis155
  • Flats and apartments67
  • Other20

Household

  • Median mortgage repayment$1,888a month
  • Household size2.5people on average

How homes are held

Owned outright 1,600Owned with a mortgage 1,348Rented 599Other 91

Schools in Rathmines

  • Rathmines Public School

    GovernmentPrimary

Streets in Rathmines

  1. Bayswater Road38 properties
  2. Bournville Road47 properties
  3. Burnage Place12 properties
  4. Cheapside Street43 properties
  5. Clydebank Road18 properties
  6. Coventry Street13 properties
  7. Darrambal Close19 properties
  8. Dorrington Road42 properties
  9. Eltham Avenue33 properties
  10. Fishing Point Road93 properties
  11. Hampstead Way59 properties
  12. Harborne Avenue66 properties
  13. Hillcrest Avenue16 properties
  14. Immarna Road25 properties
  15. Josephine Street10 properties
  16. Karie Place11 properties
  17. Karoonda Close62 properties
  18. Knebworth Grove14 properties
  19. Kooringal Close28 properties
  20. Lincoln Close16 properties
  21. Northminster Way62 properties
  22. Northview Street49 properties
  23. Overhill Road17 properties
  24. Rosemary Row122 properties
  25. Rothley Gardens17 properties
  26. Secret Corner Road63 properties
  27. Somersham Avenue43 properties
  28. Starboard Close34 properties
  29. Stilling Street6 properties
  30. Stirling Street20 properties
  31. Sunlight Parade19 properties
  32. Sutton Street7 properties
  33. The Circlet20 properties
  34. Wangi Road3 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.