Suburb profile
Shortland NSW 2307
Shortland is located in the Newcastle and Lake Macquarie region of New South Wales, postcode 2307. It has 2,577 properties across 63 streets, mostly houses. Explore every street in Shortland, its property history, homes for sale and rent, who lives there, and the local agents.
About Shortland
Shortland, NSW 2307, sits in the Newcastle and Lake Macquarie region and neighbours Birmingham Gardens, Callaghan, Hexham and Wallsend. Its 63 streets hold 2,577 properties, 1,900 of them houses and 677 units.
Census figures are for Shortland - Jesmond, which covers 12,593 residents with 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 Shortland
- 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
Properties in Shortland
Schools in Shortland
Awabakal Environmental Education Centre
GovernmentPrimary and secondary
Our Lady of Victories Primary School
CatholicPrimary
Shortland Public School
GovernmentPrimary
Awabakal Environmental Education Centre
GovernmentPrimary and secondary
Margaret Jurd College
IndependentSpecial
Agencies that specialise in Shortland
Streets in Shortland
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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.

