Suburb profile

South Maitland NSW 2320

South Maitland is located in the Hunter Valley region of New South Wales, postcode 2320. It has 409 properties across 19 streets, mostly houses. Explore every street in South Maitland, its property history, homes for sale and rent, who lives there, and the local agents.

About South Maitland

South Maitland, NSW 2320, sits in the Hunter Valley region and neighbours East Maitland, Maitland and Louth Park. Its 19 streets hold 409 properties, 293 of them houses and 116 units.

Census figures are for the Maitland area, which covers the whole suburb. At the 2021 Census Maitland had 8,611 residents, a median age of 34 and an average household of 2.6 people. Median household income was $1,756 a week, the median mortgage repayment $1,872 a month and the median rent $390 a week. Of 3,130 dwellings, 2,555 were separate houses, 283 semi-detached, 64 flats and 207 other; 734 were owned outright, 1,206 owned with a mortgage and 1,097 rented.

Updated October 2026

Who lives in South Maitland

  • 8,611Peoplelive in the area
  • 34Median ageyears
  • $1,756Median household incomea week
  • $390Median renta week

Homes by type

  • Houses2,555
  • Townhouses and semis283
  • Flats and apartments64
  • Other207

Household

  • Median mortgage repayment$1,872a month
  • Household size2.6people on average

How homes are held

Owned outright 734Owned with a mortgage 1,206Rented 1,097Other 93

For sale and rent in South Maitland

Chad BuckleyChad Buckley

$695,000 - $745,000

5 Wallace Street, South Maitland NSW 2320

3 bedrooms 1 bathroom 1 car space 728.7 m² land House

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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.