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Sandgate NSW 2304

Sandgate is located in the Newcastle and Lake Macquarie region of New South Wales, postcode 2304. It has 419 properties across 11 streets. Explore every street in Sandgate, its property history, homes for sale and rent, who lives there, and the local agents.

About Sandgate

Sandgate, NSW 2304, sits in the Newcastle and Lake Macquarie region and neighbours Callaghan, Hexham, Mayfield West and Shortland. Its 11 streets hold 419 properties, 266 of them houses and 153 units.

Census figures are for the Shortland - Jesmond area. It had 12,593 residents, a median age of 28 and an average household of 2.4 people. Median household income was $1,325 a week, the median mortgage repayment $1,700 a month and the median rent $365 a week. Of 4,256 dwellings, 2,790 were separate houses, 1,012 semi-detached, 431 flats and 9 other; 872 were owned outright, 974 owned with a mortgage and 2,174 rented.

Updated October 2026

Who lives in Sandgate

  • 12,593Peoplelive in the area
  • 28Median ageyears
  • $1,325Median household incomea week
  • $365Median renta week

Homes by type

  • Houses2,790
  • Townhouses and semis1,012
  • Flats and apartments431
  • Other9

Household

  • Median mortgage repayment$1,700a month
  • Household size2.4people on average

How homes are held

Owned outright 872Owned with a mortgage 974Rented 2,174Other 236

Streets in Sandgate

  1. Ayrshire Crescent33 properties
  2. Ferry Road15 properties
  3. Friesian Close50 properties
  4. Guernsey Street20 properties
  5. Jersey Avenue13 properties
  6. Maitland Road109 properties
  7. Mangrove Road21 properties
  8. Old Maitland Road33 properties
  9. Rural Drive81 properties
  10. Sandgate Road1 property
  11. Wallsend Road43 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.

Area summaries are generated from the national address file and ABS Census data, and checked against those figures before publication.